Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc announced that 13 abstracts sponsored by Jazz Pharmaceuticals and five abstracts from investigator-sponsored trials will be presented at SLEEP 2021, the 35th annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies (APSS) from June 10-13, 2021. “Jazz continues to be committed to deepening our understanding of sleep disorders and delivering […]
Clinical Insights & Research
Study Finds Dreams Reflect Multiple Memories, Anticipate Future Events
Dreams result from a process that often combines fragments of multiple life experiences and anticipates future events, according to novel evidence from a new study. Results show that 53.5% of dreams were traced to a memory, and nearly 50% of reports with a memory source were connected to multiple past experiences. […]
Antibiotics Don’t Help Deadly Lung-Scarring Disease
Doctors have hoped that antibiotics could benefit patients with chronic lung diseases, but a new study has found no benefit for patients with life-threatening idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in preventing hospitalization or death. While there were no statistical benefits for patients with the lung-scarring disease, the new research will prevent unnecessary […]
Noctrix Health Enrolls First Patient in RLS Wearable Device Trial
Noctrix Health, Inc. announced that the first patient has been enrolled in a multi-center, randomized controlled clinical trial. The RESTFUL Study (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04874155) is a first of its kind two-phase, randomized, double-blind, sham-controlled clinical trial to evaluate the Company’s proprietary wearable NTX100 Neuromodulation System in patients with moderate-severe primary RLS […]
Five Year Study Confirms Efficacy of Central Sleep Apnea Therapy Device
ZOLL® Medical Corporation announced that the peer-reviewed journal Nature and Science of Sleep has published five-year results from the remedē System Post Approval Study. The data show sustained safety and efficacy of transvenous phrenic nerve stimulation for the treatment of moderate to severe central sleep apnea (CSA). The remedē® System, the only implantable device […]
Novel Sleep Biomarkers Linked to Neurodegenerative Disease
Advanced Brain Monitoring, Inc. announces the discovery of two novel sleep biomarkers linked to neurodegenerative disease at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN). “The biomarkers were discovered with the company’s Sleep Profiler™ while being used by National Institute of Health-funded research collaborators across seven U.S. institutions,” […]
Study Investigates the Effects of Ventilatory Rescue Therapies on the Cerebral Oxygenation of COVID-19 Patients Using Masimo O3
Masimo announced the results of a prospective, observational study published in Critical Care in which researchers in Genoa, Italy, evaluated the impact of a variety of rescue therapies on the systemic and cerebral oxygenation of mechanically ventilated COVID-19 patients suffering from acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).1 To gauge the impact, the researchers […]
Siesta Medical’s AIRLIFT® Hyoid Suspension Study Shows 74% Reduction in AHI
Siesta Medical, Inc. announced the online publication of a recent study of the AIRLIFT procedure titled “Hyoid Suspension With UPPP for the Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea” in the Ear, Nose & Throat Journal. This multicenter study evaluated the safety and efficacy of AIRLIFT hyoid suspension when combined with procedures for […]
COVID-19 Causes ‘Unexpected’ Cellular Response in Lungs
New insights into the immune response to SARS-CoV-2 infections could bring better treatments for COVID-19 cases. An international team of researchers unexpectedly found that a biochemical pathway, known as the immune complement system, is triggered in lung cells by the virus, which might explain why the disease is so difficult to […]
Medicare Ventilator Patients Benefit from Earlier Transfer to LTCHs
In a new study published in BMC Pulmonary Medicine, researchers found that earlier transfer of mechanically ventilated patients to long-term care hospitals (LTCHs) increased the likelihood of being liberated from the ventilator. The study demonstrates the crucial role served by these specialty hospitals in caring for the most severely ill […]













