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 ...

• CPAP machines, which are used by people with sleep apnea, have some superficial similarities with ventilators, raising the question of whether they could be adapted to ease the coronavirus-driven ...

Biomedical Engineer Juan Jesús Mejia Fernandez, right, from the National Institute of Medical Science and Nutrition, pulls a ventilator called VSZ-20-2, designed at the institute's Biomedical ...

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 ...

Researchers at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles are working to understand how a condition that can be difficult to spot, known as patient-ventilator asynchrony — PVA for short — may affect children who ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) - A Mexican-made, Mexican-designed ventilator, meant to overcome an international shortage of the machines and at a lower price, is already in service at hospitals here. A rugged ...

Doctors around the country say patients often must struggle first with less effective — and cheaper — devices before some insurers will pay. Lou Gehrig’s disease took away Grace Armant’s ability to ...