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 ...

With millions of people across the U.S. and the world battling COVID-19 infections, many of them struggling to breathe, ventilators have become a top priority for the health-care workers trying ...

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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 ...

To help ease ventilator shortages resulting from the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, researchers at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering were able to modify continuous positive airway ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Nina Shapiro is a physician writer who dispels health myths. These machines are not only complicated to build and procure, ...

The lifesaving breathing machines can just as easily be used on humans. The nation's hospitals, facing dire shortages of lifesaving ventilators as the coronavirus outbreak continues, are finding help ...

As hospital administrators and public health officials scramble to meet a shortage of ventilators for Covid-19 patients, teams of doctors, engineers, and DIYers are filling some gaps by modifying ...

Philips on Monday announced that it will recall several ventilators and CPAP breathing machines after it discovered that a small foam component in the machines might degrade and be inhaled, a move ...

In Rochester, N.Y., Diane Coleman has relied on a machine to help her stay alive, but she worries that it might be slowly undermining her health. Her ventilator was among millions of breathing devices ...