A new low-cost ventilator design invented during COVID-19 could address the global shortage of ventilators for other respiratory diseases. The ventilators, which are required by patients in intensive ...

As the coronavirus crisis lit up this spring, headlines about how the US could innovate its way out of a pending ventilator shortage landed almost as hard and fast as the pandemic itself. Around the ...

Wearables company Fitbit has announced intentions to manufacture emergency ventilators designed for use with COVID-19 patients. The ventilators will be made to meet demand, according to the company, ...

When the Covid-19 pandemic hit in March, Darren Saravis, who runs medical device manufacturing company Nectar Inc. in Long Beach, was stunned to hear about the shortage of ventilators and the ...

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – Half a year into a global pandemic, a small North Carolina life sciences startup has gotten fast-track approval to start producing “low-cost, high-value” ventilators. Meet ...

Coronavirus cases are rising sharply across the country and here in San Diego. UC San Diego researchers are adapting existing technologies — ventilators — to help ease the situation. They’ve ...

San Diego’s two largest universities are developing ventilators for COVID-19 patients that could cost less than a Christmastime flight to New York and back. San Diego State University estimates that ...

Brazil has been one of the most affected countries in the world by COVID-19. A group of researchers led by Prof. Marcelo Zuffo and Prof. Raul Lima from the Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São ...

The Trump administration failed to properly manage and negotiate contracts for ventilators, both before and during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report by the Democratic-led House Oversight ...

Yeah, this is a hardware issue, not software/firmware. Wouldn't surprise me if they used the same firmware for pretty much all of their hardware, costs less to maintain, and disable features based on ...

The company that makes your iPhone charging cable and home router is joining in on the coronavirus fight. Belkin International has started making what it calls "low-cost" ventilators at manufacturing ...

The vast majority of the thousands of ventilators manufactured under an emergency U.K. program to treat Covid-19 patients have gone unused and are sitting in storage, the government’s public spending ...