A diagnosis for sleep apnea, a condition that causes breathing to temporarily stop and restart while a person is sleeping, ...

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 ...

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 ...