Category: Therapy Devices

Therapy Devices

The CEO of A Dental Sleep Medicine Company Shares His Personal Battle with COVID-19

Jim Glidewell, CDT, president and CEO of Glidewell Dental, was hospitalized for COVID-19. He has since been discharged.

Therapy Devices

Does CPAP Aerosolize COVID-19? New Review Provides Evidence-Based Insights into How Certain Medical Devices Generate and/or Disperse Airborne Particles

Scientists provide an exhaustive, evidence-based review of how COVID-19 droplets from infected patients spread through the air and describe how health care professionals can protect themselves.

Therapy Devices

In Less Than 2 Hours, Airing Surpasses $100,000 Goal to Develop Micro-CPAP

It didn’t take Airing LLC long to reach its crowdfunding goal of $100,000 for its disposable...

CPAP & PAP Devices

Sermo COVID-19 Barometer: Noninvasive Oxygen Therapies Can Prevent Intubation But Believed to Aerosolize Coronavirus by 80% of Treating Physicians

Results from week 9 of Sermo’s COVID-19 Real Time Barometer reveal COVID-19 treatment patterns among 4,193 frontline physicians.

Oral Appliances

How I Built a Multi-Location Dental Sleep Medicine Business

A dentist and founding partner at Sleep Better Austin shares 6 lessons learned while growing his practice.

Positional Therapies for Supine Sleep Avoidance

Why I Prescribe Positional Obstructive Sleep Apnea Therapies to My Patients

Though many practices don’t collect the data to diagnose the phenotype, POSA patients can benefit from tailored therapies.

Insomnia Devices

New Over-the-Counter Device for Sleeplessness Debuts, Prescription Version Available for Diagnosed Insomnia

Ebb Insomnia Therapy, a wearable device that lowers temperature to promote sleep, received FDA...

Sleep Apnea Combination Therapies

Engineer Uses Biological Fluid Dynamics to Better Understand Sleep Apnea

Sleep apnea can cause a range of health risks and problems, from heart disease and type 2 diabetes to drowsy driving and metabolic disruptions affecting performance. Even children between 2 and 8 can develop sleep apnea, which...

Restless Legs Syndrome Devices

Study Reviews Medical Device Treatments for Restless Legs Syndrome

Some seek alternatives to dopaminergic drugs, due to the drugs’ links to RLS augmentation....

Emerging Technology

Signifier Medical Technologies Wins Design Award for Snoozeal

Signifier Medical Technologies Ltd has won the iF DESIGN AWARD for Design Excellence, in the product category, for Snoozeal, a medical device designed for muscle toning for patients with sleep apnea and snoring that has CE approval in Europe and is working on FDA approval in the United States.

Nasal Dilators

Have Snoring…Will Treat It

There is no gold standard treatment for snoring—yet—but clinicians and patients have a...

Neurostimulators

Inspire Upper Airway Stimulation Therapy FDA Approved for 18- to 21-Year-Olds

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved an expanded age range for Inspire Upper Airway Stimulation Therapy for obstructive sleep apnea to include 18-21 year old patients.

Light Therapy

Flies Kept in the Dark Lose Long-Term Memories, But Sleep—Or Lack Thereof—Did Not Account for the Difference

Scientists have discovered that Drosophila flies lose long-term memory of a traumatic event when kept in the dark.

Sound/Acoustic Therapies

Vibratory, Auditory Stimulation May Help Patients with Insomnia

Vibratory and auditory stimulation may alter functional connectivity in the brain and improve sleep for patients with insomnia, according to results of a functional MRI study published in Sleep Disorders. “This study...

Ventilation Therapies - ASV

3D Printing Manufacturer Gets FDA Emergency Use Authorization for BiPAP-to-Ventilator Adapters

3D printing company Formlabs has received emergency use authorization (EUA) from the FDA to print bilevel positive airway pressure adapters designed by New York's Northwell Health.