BARCELONA, Spain — Follow-up phone calls to patients newly trained on continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) devices increased overall compliance by 10%, and resulted in as much as an hour more of ...

Healthcare professionals may recommend continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machines for people living with obstructive sleep apnea. A CPAP machine delivers a steady flow of pressurized air ...

Prescription sleep aids may do little to improve the use of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) among patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). A new study published in the November issue of ...

SAN DIEGO, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- Prescription sleep aids may do little to improve the use of continuous positive airway pressure, of CPAP, among patients with sleep apnea, says a U.S. study. Patients with ...

Many are familiar with CPAP machines to treat sleep apnea, but fewer realize an oral appliance is an effective alternative. So how do you know if you’re a good candidate?

When Chokonjetsa was born, he weighed just over 2 pounds. His tiny, underdeveloped lungs struggled for each breath. Then doctors in the hospital in Blantyre, Malawi, put Chokonjetsa on a breathing ...