To help ease ventilator shortages resulting from the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, researchers at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering were able to modify continuous positive airway ...

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 ...

Although most of us would have vaguely heard of ventilators being an artificial breathing device used in hospitals and other healthcare facilities, not many of us have got an opportunity to actually ...

• 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 ...

The term “life support” refers to any combination of machines and medication that keeps a person’s body alive when their organs would otherwise stop working. Usually people use the words life support ...

At a media briefing Friday, President Donald Trump met with officials from NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to view some equipment the agencies have designed that could be used in the ...