The Spokesman-Review

Maker of breathing machines to pay $479 million in CPAP settlement

Philips Respironics, the maker of popular CPAP sleep apnea machines, has agreed to pay $479 million to settle some claims that its devices spewed carcinogenic foam and gas into the mouths of its ...
Seattle Times

Breathing machine recall over possible cancer risk leaves millions scrambling for substitutes

For three years, Donald Camp has used a breathing device to sleep. He has severe sleep apnea, so without this device, his breathing is obstructed and he gasps for air. But in June, Camp and many ...
MedPage Today

Reworked Philips CPAP, BiPAP Machines May Not Deliver Correct Therapy

Certain Philips Respironics DreamStation breathing devices, commonly used for treating sleep apnea, may deliver the incorrect prescription or no therapy at all, the FDA warned in a recall announcement ...
Nasdaq

Philips Halts U.S. Sales Of CPAP Breathing Machines

(RTTNews) - Philips Respironics (PHGFF.PK, PHG) announced on Monday that on settling with the Food and Drug Administration, it has decided to halt the sales of the company's ventilators and CPAP ...
Yahoo

Philips halt sales of breathing machines after major recall

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Philips Center is seen on Jan. 27, 2015, in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Philips, the company behind a global recall of sleep apnea ...
WTAE-TV

Philips replaces recalled breathing machine with another recalled machine

Philips Respironics has promised to replace millions of CPAP and BiPAP breathing machines that FDA reports have linked to thousands of injuries and more than 300 deaths.More than two years after the ...
NBC DFW

Consumers Search for Answers After Breathing Machine Recall

More than two months after a recall of certain continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) and bilevel positive airway pressure (BiPAP) and ventilator machines, consumers tell NBC 5 Responds they’re ...
WBUR

Faulty CPAP machines were a nightmare for people with sleep apnea. Now they're coming off the market

A widely used medical device that promised sufferers of sleep apnea the chance to “rediscover dreams” instead had them breathing black particles linked to cancer, respiratory diseases and hundreds of ...
MM&M

How Lincare cashed in on the disastrous recall of Philips breathing machines — at the expense of patients

This article originally appeared in ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. For ...
The Washington Post

Philips halts U.S. sales of CPAP breathing machines after recall

Philips Respironics will halt U.S. sales of its ventilators and CPAP breathing machines after reaching a settlement with the Food and Drug Administration, the company disclosed in a Securities and ...