As the coronavirus pandemic rips through the U.S., governors have made public pleas for more personal protective equipment (PPE) for health care and frontline workers, and for ventilators to help ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — As the number of COVID-19 cases in our country rise, supplies are dwindling. Medical professionals facing a shortage of ventilators in some areas of the country are turning to ...

NEW HYDE PARK, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In preparation for potential patient surge and shortage of critical mechanical ventilators for hospitalized COVID-19 patients, a Northwell Health physician, a ...

In less than a month, engineers at Sandia National Laboratories converted 100 respiratory machines New Mexico hospitals had on hand into machines that can safely be used as ventilators to treat ...

New York City-based Northwell Health said it has developed a protocol to transform a BiPAP machine into a functional ventilator and that it plans to share the design online so other hospitals facing ...

Blount Memorial Hospital has three new hospital-grade BiPAP machines that can be converted into ventilators — bringing the total number of equipment qualifying as ventilators to 40, officials said.

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 ...

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 ...