Posters presented at the 2023 American Thoracic Society International Conference called for improvements in care for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and pulmonary hypertension. A series ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) makes it hard to breathe. Narrowed airways can make you cough, wheeze, and feel short of breath. It can affect how you exercise, work, and do other daily ...

As a young physician in Sydney, Australia in 1979, Colin Sullivan conceived of an experiment to help people with nighttime breathing issues. After several months of waiting for the right patient, he ...

Cardiovascular benefits and harms could be detected with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment for select patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a pooled analysis of major ...

Worried about looking and sounding like Darth Vader while using a CPAP machine? Fear not — CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) technology — has come a long way since its inception in the early ...

Doctors favor treatment with continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP, machines, researchers are slated to report this week at a meeting of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. Adobe stock June ...

For a potentially serious medical condition, it’s remarkable how few people know they have obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). The good news is that for people with a diagnosis, there have never been more ...

The pauses in breathing can last a few seconds or minutes, and typically end with a snort or a choking sound. There are three main types of sleep apnea. As the name suggests, obstructive sleep apnea ...

CPAP machines are a common treatment for sleep apnea, but they can be uncomfortable to sleep with, especially when you first start using one. The best CPAP pillows have special cutouts for the mask ...