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 ...

Severe cases of COVID-19 bring with them respiratory complications and breathing difficulties. Given this, and the fact that the disease is highly contagious, there is a high risk of a global shortage ...

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 ...

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 ...

A device designed at the University of Pittsburgh could help improve outcomes as a treatment for COVID-19 when used in conjunction with non-invasive or mechanical ventilation, and it recently received ...

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 ...

Treating the most serious cases of COVID-19 calls for the use of ventilators. We’ve all heard this, and also that there is a shortage of these devices. But there is not one single type of ventilator, ...

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, ...

The welding shop is considered as one of the most unfavorable places for human working activities. A huge amount of harmfulness is emitted during the technological process. Welding works provoke ...