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COPD: Eliminating Stigma
The stigma of COPD can prevent patients from coming forward. Here are our top insider tips on how you can make the difference. Few chronic illnesses carry a lack of awareness and a stigma like COPD. Caused primarily by tobacco use, COPD can evoke feelings of guilt, shame and regret […]
Philips Celebrates World Sleep Day Early: Annual Global Sleep Survey Results, Overnight Concert
Philips celebrates World Sleep Day early with the release of its annual global sleep survey results, overnight concert experience • Survey finds that 77 percent of global adults have actively taken steps to improve their sleep, with listening to soothing music revealed as one of the most prominent […]
Meet Flyp: The Ultra Cool, Ultra Portable Pocket Nebulizer
Convexity Scientific Inc has released the Flyp, a new pocket-portable, vibrating mesh nebulizer designed for respiratory conditions such as asthma and COPD. Convexity did away with everything that adds bulk: there are no disposable batteries, external power sources, masks, or tubes. Truly a nebulizer that fits in your pocket. A […]
Whitepaper Demonstrates Efficacy of Lumin CPAP Mask Cleaner
Click image below to read Whitepaper on 3B Products Lumin CPAP Mask Cleaner.
Intraoral Scanner Can Now Be Used to Produce Panthera Oral Appliances
Panthera Sleep designs, develops, manufactures and markets high-end Mandibular Advancement Devices (MAD) for the treatment of snoring and/or obstructive sleep apnea. The Planmeca Emerald™ intraoral scanner can now be smoothly integrated into sleep practices’ workflows. After scanning the upper and lower arches, first alone and then in occlusion, dentists can instantly export […]
Nihon Kohden Launches Aireeg® WEE-1200 Wireless EEG System
Nihon Kohden has launched its aireeg® WEE-1200 wireless electroencephalogram (EEG) system designed specifically for patient comfort and easy access to real-time patient data during long-term epilepsy monitoring, intensive care, and routine EEG environments. The smart, safe and secure diagnostic platform, which will be highlighted at Nihon Kohden’s HIMSS18 booth (10925) […]
How Women Sleep
This data comes from the sleep experts at Sleep Cycle just before International Women’s Day (March 8). Please see below additional data points regarding how women sleep and here to view an infographic tying it all together 52% of women are woken up by a snoring partner 27% of women […]
Philips Crushes It Again at the European Patent Office
Royal Philips today announced that it is the number one patent applicant for patents in the field of ‘medical technology’ at the European Patent Office (EPO) in 2017, echoing the same number-one ranking it achieved the year before. According to the EPO’s 2017 Annual Results, which were announced earlier today, […]
Sedative May Prevent Delirium in the ICU
A low dose of the sedative dexmedetomidine given at night may prevent delirium in critically ill patients, according to new research published online in the American Thoracic Society’s American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. In “Low-dose Nocturnal Dexmedetomidine Prevents ICU Delirium: A Randomized, Placebo-controlled Trial,” researchers report on what […]
