The Magazine for Sleep Professionals
Friday, August 7, 2026
More than 1 in 10 people with a range of non-cancerous lung diseases may be sick as a result of inhaling vapors, gas, dust or fumes at work, according to a joint American Thoracic Society and the European Respiratory Society statement published in the ATS’s American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care […]
Liberate Medical, a clinical-stage medical device company, developing novel electrical muscle stimulation devices that non-invasively address pulmonary conditions, announced the results from its recently completed pilot trial of the VentFree Muscle Stimulator during an oral presentation at the American Thoracic Society International Conference in Dallas, TX. The VentFree Muscle Stimulator, which […]
Study presented at ATS International Conference examined more than 4 million PAP users in the U.S., Brazil, Mexico Remote monitoring and patient self-monitoring can drive CPAP adherence for people with sleep apnea, according to research presented by ResMed at the American Thoracic Society’s 2019 ATS International Conference. Average adherence to […]
UMass Amherst scientist’s ongoing sleep research looks into the impacts of TV on young children Preschoolers who watch TV sleep significantly less than those who don’t, according to new research by University of Massachusetts Amherst neuroscientist Rebecca Spencer and developmental science graduate student Abigail Helm. More surprising to Spencer, known […]
Doctors know the sounds of lung problems, but it turns out they might be more than symptoms—crackling and wheezing could be the sounds of a disease progressing, a University of Michigan researcher has found. James Grotberg, professor of biomedical engineering at the College of Engineering and professor of surgery at […]
Air pollution from diesel engines may worsen allergy-induced lung impairment more when tiny particles are filtered from the exhaust than when they are not, according to new research published online in the American Thoracic Society’s American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. This surprising result may be due to the fact […]
Growing more native plants in cities will increase microbial diversity and combat the rise of non-communicable diseases such as asthma and inflammatory bowel disease, South Australian researchers say In a new paper, published in Frontiers in Microbiology, researchers from the University of Adelaide found that humans in urban populations are in […]
Discovery in Laboratory Mice Suggests Possible Role for Anti-Cancer Drugs in Treating Pulmonary Fibrosis A protein associated with cancer growth appears to drive the deadly lung disease known as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, according to new research from Cedars-Sinai. The discovery, made in laboratory mice and human tissue samples, may have […]
People with Alzheimer’s disease using antiepileptic drugs have twice the risk of pneumonia compared to non-users, a new study from the University of Eastern Finland shows. The risk was highest in the beginning of use, but remained on an elevated level even in long-term use. The results were published in […]
Chinese Researchers Find Increased Risk in Large Study Population Short-term exposure to three common air pollutants may increase the risk of dying from asthma, according to new research published online in the American Thoracic Society’s American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. In “Short-Term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution and […]
