sleep apnea

FDA Cleared Oral Device for Severe Sleep Apnea From Vivos Therapeutics On November 29, 2023, Vivos Therapeutics announced that it received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Vivos’s removable CARE (Complete Airway Repositioning and Expansion) oral appliances developed for treat...

Sleep disorders (or sleep-wake disorders) are one of the major health burdens in today's time. Sleep is a fundamental process in human life and well-being, and these disorders largely remain untreated or, more often, misdiagnosed as psychiatric problems. Sleep disorders affect and change the way that a person sleep...

Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is a common, chronic, sleep-related breathing disorder characterized by periodic narrowing and obstruction of the pharyngeal airway during sleep, leading to either complete or partial obstruction of the airway, resulting in apneas, hypopneas, or both. Obstructive Sleep Apnea causes day...

Sleep is essential for the physical and mental health of the person. If a person didn’t get proper sleep, it might lead to many health complications. In recent time, due to various reasons such as busy work schedule, changes in sleep patterns, stress, environmental factors, certain medical conditions or medications...

The concept of sleep as a passive movement of unconsciousness has long been ruled out. But this act of rejuvenation hasn't just been restricted to the phase of resting. Usually, sleepers undergo five stages of sleep consisting of both REM (Rapid Eye Movement) and N-REM (Non- Rapid Eye Movement), each lasting f...