Device servicing by third parties has been topical of late, although not in the context of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) systems. That seems likely to change thanks to the ongoing recall ...

The Food and Drug Administration has provided additional information about an urgent medical device field correction for products used to clean continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machines. The ...

Koninklijke Philips NV, a maker of breathing machines used for treating sleep apnea, was accused in a lawsuit of improperly blaming its recall of about 3.5 million devices on unapproved cleaning ...

Litigation between companies in the med-tech space often revolves around patents, but the ongoing series of lawsuits between Philips Respironics Inc. and Soclean Inc. are directed toward the ...

Koninklijke Philips NA said the use by customers of unauthorized cleaning products worsened damage to noise-dampening foam inside some ventilators used for treating sleep apnea, hinting that the ...

SoClean, a Peterborough-based manufacturer of ozone-based sleep apnea machine cleaners, has filed a $200 million lawsuit against the Dutch medical equipment giant Philips, saying the company falsely ...

Almost two full years into its Class I recall of more than 5 million respiratory devices, Philips has wrapped up safety tests covering nearly all of the affected models—and is reiterating its previous ...

One of the nation's largest makers of machines for sleep apnea sufferers has agreed to pay at least $479 million to compensate customers who bought the devices. Philips Respironics and Koninklijke ...

On Wednesday, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation sent two dozen lawsuits against SoClean to U.S. District Judge Joy Flowers Conti, who is already overseeing the multidistrict ...

Electronics manufacturing giant Philips is recalling millions of CPAP and BiPAP devices due to an issue that could potentially pose a health risk to users of the machines. In the wake of the recall, ...

A voluntary recall of millions of CPAP breathing machines, used mainly to treat sleep apnea, has many users wondering if they've been inhaling cancer-causing toxins in their sleep. At least 25 million ...