The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has updated a recall affecting millions of Philips sleep apnea machines, now saying that they may been linked to at least 561 deaths. The agency, in a statement ...

In a classic “two steps forward, one step back” situation, just as Philips is aiming to wrap up the repair-and-replace program for the 5.5 million respiratory devices it began recalling two years ago, ...

In 2021, polyester-based polyurethane (PE-PUR) foam used in Philips Respironics ventilators, CPAP and BiPAP machines was found to degrade and cause serious health issues or death, leading to a mass ...

Nearly two years after Philips first publicly raised concerns about the potential breakdown of the polyester-based polyurethane foam found in many of its CPAP and BiPAP machines and other respiratory ...

FDA says at least 561 people have died because of CPAP machines The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has updated a recall affecting millions of Philips sleep apnea machines, now saying that ...