Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) can have a potentially serious effect on your lungs. While some people can experience shortness of breath, others can develop pneumonia or a life-threatening ...

Regular use of a continuous positive airway pressure or CPAP machine could improve the sex lives of people with obstructive sleep apnea – especially women, a new study says. Obstructive sleep apnea is ...

In recent years an increased number of people have been diagnosed with sleep apnea. Indeed, experts estimate that three to nine percent of the general population suffers from its most common form, ...

President Joe Biden has started using a CPAP machine to treat sleep apnea, the White House said Wednesday, explaining marks from straps that were seen on both sides of his face earlier this week and ...

A global call for more ventilators has been issued owing to a chronic shortage induced by the COVID-19 crisis. A team of researchers at Auburn University is on it. The researchers are turning a CPAP ...

NEW ORLEANS — Sleep apnea is one of the most common sleep disorders and if you have it you may have been waiting weeks, months or in some cases, even years for a CPAP machine to help you breathe at ...

Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is widely regarded as the best treatment available for obstructive sleep apnea, a breathing disorder that affects millions of people. If your CPAP is not ...

There is a large market for unauthorized online sales of secondhand continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) devices, which treat obstructive sleep apnea, according to a new study. Purchased from an ...

A new study found that getting CPAP treatment within the first two years of a sleep apnea diagnosis reduced the risk of ...

My dentist discovered it. As we chatted, instead of looking me in the eye, she was focused on my mouth. “Your front teeth,” said Dr. Cynthia Brattesani. “You've got that pirate look again.” Telling ...

A voluntary recall of millions of CPAP breathing machines, used mainly to treat sleep apnea, has many users wondering if they've been inhaling cancer-causing toxins in their sleep. At least 25 million ...

In 2021, polyester-based polyurethane (PE-PUR) foam used in Philips Respironics ventilators, CPAP and BiPAP machines was found to degrade and cause serious health issues or death, leading to a mass ...