The Magazine for Sleep Professionals
Thursday, February 5, 2026
Texas Medical Technology launched its iNitrile disposable glove dispenser to combat infections in businesses and organizations. The machine utilizes an automated process to help organizations streamline tedious daily tasks, minimize waste, and improve cost-efficiency. Infections can often come from places people seldom consider, and with COVID-19, simply washing your hands or […]
Rokote Laboratories Finland Ltd., a newly-founded academic spin-out based in Finland is working to develop and introduce to the markets a nasal spray vaccine against COVID. The vaccine is based on research carried out at the University of Helsinki and the University of Eastern Finland. The vaccine uses gene transfer […]
Royal Philips has announced the findings of its 6th annual sleep survey in a report titled Seeking Solutions: How COVID-19 Changed Sleep Around the World. Almost a year since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Philips surveyed 13,000 adults in 13 countries to capture attitudes, perceptions, and behaviors around sleep. […]
Joe Alesch served for 26 years as a respiratory therapist at INTEGRIS Health before his retirement in 2019. During his retirement, he went to Colorado Springs every six weeks to visit his father who was living in a retirement center there. “I always looked forward to those trips,” Alesch said. […]
A new paper published online in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society provides a roadmap that critical care clinicians’ professional societies can use to address burnout. While strongly needed prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the roadmap has taken on even greater urgency due to reports of increasing pandemic-related burnout. In “Professional Societies’ Role […]
Masks help protect the people wearing them from getting or spreading SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, but now researchers from the National Institutes of Health have added evidence for yet another potential benefit for wearers: The humidity created inside the mask may help combat respiratory diseases such as COVID-19. […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is informing health care providers and health care facilities about up-to-date information concerning multiplexing ventilator tubing connectors, also known as ventilator splitters, in situations in which no alternatives for invasive ventilatory support are available. Although the FDA has not received any adverse event […]
Ventec Life Systems completed a record-breaking year manufacturing VOCSN critical care ventilators in response to COVID-19. Ventec produced 45,000 ventilators including their historic collaboration with General Motors to deliver 30,000 critical care ventilators to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in just 154 days. The company reported record growth in […]
Azimuth Sleep Solutions has received FDA Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for their patent-pending PortPatch™ product, in order to expand air filtration capabilities for patient treatment options and to help keep healthcare workers safer in patient-care areas where non-invasive ventilatory treatment devices need to be used. PortPatch™ is made with hydrophobic, […]
The hormone acts as a barrier against SARS-CoV-2, blocking the expression of genes that encode proteins in cells serving as viral entry points, according to a study by researchers at the University of São Paulo. Melatonin synthesized in the lungs acts as a barrier against the virus, preventing expression of […]
