Elderly patients nearing the end of their lives are increasingly placed on breathing machines as a sort of automatic reflex among physicians, according to Kei Ouchi, MD, an emergency medicine ...

Philips Respironics announced last Monday that it’s stopping sales of their breathing machines within the U.S. following a mid-2021 product recall. The decision, as reported by The New York Times, was ...

The coronavirus is straining the global health care system, with one piece of lifesaving medical equipment in particularly scarce supply: mechanical ventilators. A ventilator helps patients who cannot ...

The Food and Drug Administration says 561 deaths have been reported in connection to recalled Philips devices to treat obstructive sleep apnea and other breathing disorders. The FDA said that since ...

Lou Gehrig’s disease took away Grace Armant’s ability to speak, but the 84-year-old still has plenty to say about her insurance. UnitedHealthcare has rejected several requests from her doctors for ...

United Airlines is apologizing to a mother who says a flight crew asked her to remove her son from his breathing machine before they could take off.“The way you treated my son when we were attempting ...