A UCLA student is developing a low-cost ventilator to help fight COVID-19. Graduate student Glen Meyerowitz saw the need for ventilators across the country and knew he could create a dramatically ...

Just this week, the coronavirus pandemic passed 2 million confirmed infections and 130,000 deaths worldwide. With such a rapid rise in cases, hospitals are struggling with the shortage of ventilators, ...

Ventilators are crucial in keeping severely-ill coronavirus patients alive — but hospitals across the country are facing a critical shortage of the life-saving medical device amid the ...

An unfortunate truth about the use of mechanical ventilation to save the lives of patients in respiratory distress is that the pressure used to inflate the lungs is likely to cause further lung damage ...

Tesla is among a group of automakers retooling facilities to build ventilators for the COVID-19 crisis. In the following video, the company provides a behind-the-scene look at its ventilator design ...

From bed-sized iron lungs to portable, computer-controlled systems, the ventilators used to treat life-threatening respiratory diseases—and so much in demand today—have had a 'remarkable journey." It ...

Most of us had never given much thought to what a ventilator does before the COVID-19 pandemic. Or maybe you’d only encountered that uncomfortable feeling of having a tube down your throat during ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Nina Shapiro is a physician writer who dispels health myths. These machines are not only complicated to build and procure, ...

A mechanical ventilator is a machine that helps your lungs work when it’s hard for you to breathe on your own. This can happen during surgery or due to a critical illness. Ventilators are typically ...