A Doctor, Recalled Devices, and a $600K Scheme That Misled Patients

A doctor in Washington was sentenced to a year in jail for a scheme involving recalled Philips CPAP machines. Sleep ...
TheJournal.ie

Around 18,000 breathing machines remediated in Ireland after defect led to recall

Some 70 incident reports potentially related to the affected machines were received by the Health Products Regulatory ...
FierceBiotech

Philips re-recalls 1,200 CPAP, BiPAP machines repaired in far-reaching ventilator probe

In a classic “two steps forward, one step back” situation, just as Philips is aiming to wrap up the repair-and-replace program for the 5.5 million respiratory devices it began recalling two years ago, ...
FierceBiotech

Philips says recalled CPAP, BiPAP machines show low risk of harm in completed safety tests

Almost two full years into its Class I recall of more than 5 million respiratory devices, Philips has wrapped up safety tests covering nearly all of the affected models—and is reiterating its previous ...
WFTV

FDA: Recalled Philips BiPAP, CPAP machines tied to more than 560 deaths

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has updated a recall affecting millions of Philips sleep apnea machines, now saying that they may been linked to at least 561 deaths. The agency, in a statement ...
Philadelphia Tribune

Some Philips CPAP, BiPAP machines may not work as intended, FDA says in recall

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 ...
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CPAP maker Philips agrees to pay at least $479 million to users over recalled devices

CPAP sleep apnea machine maker Philips Respironics agreed to pay at least $479 million in a settlement over alleged health risks from toxic sound reducing foam, lawyers for the plaintiff announced ...