Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Philips Center is seen on Jan. 27, 2015, in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Philips, the company behind a global recall of sleep apnea ...

Aquarium pump breathing machine — A newborn breathes with help from the aquarium pump bubble CPAP machine. To keep the tubes in place, doctors and nurses use safety pins and rubber bands to attach ...

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 received thousands of complaints about a dangerous defect in its breathing machines but kept them secret for years as stock prices soared. The devices, including the popular ...

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Recalled breathing assistance devices from Philips Respironics have been linked to 561 deaths, federal regulators said Wednesday. The death toll is an update to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's ...

CPAP machines help about 8 million Americans with sleep-related breathing disorders, like sleep apnea, by keeping their airways open while they sleep. But one manufacturer, Philips Respironics, is ...

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 ...

They thought they were getting clean air from the lifelines at their bedsides, coveted nights of healthy sleep that for too long did not come easy. Near Portland, Oregon, Kim Binford's sleep apnea ...

HERE’S INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER PAUL VAN OSDOL. THE RECALL AFFECTED MILLIONS OF BREATHING MACHINES MADE BY PHILIPS, WHICH HAS OFFICES HERE IN BAKERY SQUARE AND IN MORRISVILLE. ON SATURDAY, DON SCHREIBER ...

NEW YORK — 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 ...