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 ...

Officials have pointed to the anesthesia machines as a resource for hospitals. Anticipating ongoing shortages of ventilator machines as the coronavirus continues to spread across the country, states ...

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 ...

On vacation in Mexico last year, Michael DiPlacido passed out twice while scuba diving and again in his hotel. Back in St. Louis, doctors diagnosed him with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, an ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Lou Gehrig’s disease took away Grace ...

ARDS is a life-threatening lung condition causing severe breathing failure. New research shows AI could personalize ...