As a young physician in Sydney, Australia in 1979, Colin Sullivan conceived of an experiment to help people with nighttime breathing issues. After several months of waiting for the right patient, he ...

Certain Philips Respironics DreamStation breathing devices, commonly used for treating sleep apnea, may deliver the incorrect prescription or no therapy at all, the FDA warned in a recall announcement ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Rather than weight loss and surgery, getting a CPAP machine has been the top go-to treatment for people with a severe snoring disorder called sleep apnea. But after the Food and ...

Healthcare professionals may recommend continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machines for people living with obstructive sleep apnea. A CPAP machine delivers a steady flow of pressurized air ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has updated a recall affecting millions of Philips sleep apnea machines, now saying that they may been linked to at least 561 deaths. The agency, in a statement ...

If you have obstructive sleep apnea (OSA)—a condition that causes a partial or complete collapse of your upper airway while sleeping—you’re likely familiar with continuous positive airway pressure ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I have been diagnosed with mild sleep apnea. (No surprise there as symptoms were omnipresent.) CPAP machines seem incredibly uncomfortable. Are they the preferred gold standard even ...

The US Food and Drug Administration issued a Class I recall Friday, the most serious type of recall, for certain Philips Respironics DreamStation1 CPAP machines. A Class I recall means the FDA has ...

Today, Nursing professor Amy Sawyer, who was mentored by Weaver, works with Nursing researchers to address obstructive sleep ...