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Topic: CPAP

Jenny Shields poses for a photo with her CPAP machine, which was recalled for safety reasons, at her home in Wilmington, Delaware on June 3, 2022. (Rachel Wisniewski/For the Washington Post)

Philips to stop selling apnea machines

Debbie Cenziper, Michael D. Sallah - ProPublica
Patient holding CPAP machine mask (Getty Images/cherrybeans)

Is a future without CPAPs possible?

Matthew Rozsa
Man sleeping with cpap mask because of obstructive sleep apnea (Getty Images/no_limit_pictures)

Why millions love their CPAPs

Matthew Rozsa
A nurse attends to a COVID-19 patient that is wearing a CPAP helmet while he is moved out of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Pope John XXIII Hospital on April 7, 2020 in Bergamo, Italy. (Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images)

Sleep apnea and the failure of evolution

Matthew Rozsa
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In this photo provided by the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, taken March 11, 2015 in the intensive care unit at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, physical therapist Katie Kellner helps patient Terry Culler do some exercises and briefly stand despite being hooked to a ventilator. There's increasing evidence that mild exercise may have its place even for the sickest ICU patients, and new animal research suggests it may target both muscles and lungs. (AP Photo/Warren Cameron Dennis III, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center) (AP)

How CPAPs spread the coronavirus

Markian Hawryluk - KFF Health News
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-1390159p1.html'>Marcos Mesa Sam Wordley</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

You snooze, you lose

Marshall Allen - ProPublica
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