The Magazine for Sleep Professionals
Tuesday, August 18, 2026
Dormotech, a leader in advancing sleep diagnostics through innovative, clinically validated solutions, emphasized the urgent need for early and accessible diagnosis of sleep disorders in children. This critical focus echoes the profound insights shared by globally respected pediatric sleep medicine expert, Dr. Asher Tal. In an in-depth interview with Dormotech, […]
The Sleep To Live Well Foundation issues an urgent warning in its groundbreaking 2025 State of Sleep Wellness Report, titled “THE SILENT EPIDEMIC: How Lack of Sleep Endangers Over Half of All Americans and Threatens Everyone.” The report unveils the Foundation’s initiatives to address this insufficient sleep crisis with Sleep Wellness—a holistic approach to […]
Substances present in cooked meats are associated with increased wheezing in children, Mount Sinai researchers report. Their study, published in Thorax, highlights pro-inflammatory compounds called advanced glycation end-products (AGEs) as an example of early dietary risk factors that may have broad clinical and public health implications for preventing inflammatory airway disease. […]
A new study published online in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society discusses a steep drop off from prior years in asthma-related emergency department (ED) visits at Boston Children’s Hospital during the spring 2020 COVID-19 surge and lockdown. In “Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Pediatric Emergency Department Utilization for Asthma,” Tregony Simoneau, MD, assistant professor […]
Masimo announced the findings of an abstract recently presented at ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2020, the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA). In this independent, retrospective study, researchers investigated whether Masimo ORi™ (Oxygen Reserve Index) could predict whether children with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) undergoing tonsillectomy required postoperative oxygen therapy. […]
Spirovant Sciences, a gene therapy company developing treatments and cures for genetic lung diseases including cystic fibrosis, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Orphan Drug and Rare Pediatric Disease Designations to its lead product candidate, SPIRO-2101, for the treatment of cystic fibrosis. SPIRO-2101, an inhaled […]
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) has approved an expanded age range for Inspire therapy to include 18-21-year-old patients, as compared to the previous minimum age requirement for patients to be 22 years old. Following a detailed review of the clinical evidence […]
A small wildfire in San Diego County in 2017 resulted in a big uptick in children visiting the emergency room for breathing problems, according to new research published online in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society. In “Increase in Pediatric Respiratory Visits Associated with Santa Ana Wind-driven Wildfire Smoke and […]
Children with asthma who are required to switch inhaler types to accommodate insurance formulary changes may experience a loss of lung function not seen in children whose inhaler type stayed the same, according to Scott Bickel, MD, from the University of Louisville School of Medicine, who will present the study findings at the […]
The American Thoracic Society has developed a new clinical practice guideline for home oxygen therapy for children. The guideline appears in the Feb. 1 edition of the Society’s American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. “Home Oxygen Therapy for Children: An Official American Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guideline” makes specific recommendations […]
