A growing wave of sleep apnea patients are posting videos of themselves wearing their CPAP masks on TikTok and Instagram, and respiratory device maker ResMed is spending real money to keep the trend going. Kayla Fawcett, a 32-year-old from Wisconsin, kicked it off with a stunt that had nothing to do with corporate branding. She […] The post Sleep apnea patients turn CPAP masks into a social media badge of honor appeared first on American Almanac .
A growing wave of sleep apnea patients are posting videos of themselves wearing their CPAP masks on TikTok and Instagram, and respiratory device maker ResMed is spending real money to keep the trend going. Kayla Fawcett, a 32-year-old from Wisconsin, kicked it off with a stunt that had nothing to do with corporate branding. She wrapped her hair around the tubing of her CPAP headgear before bed, clipped it in place, and filmed the results. By morning, her TikTok had crossed a million views. The comment section filled with women saying the video had changed how they felt about their machines, and some said it convinced them to start using theirs again after quitting. The movement now calls itself "CPAP baddies," and it has drawn in content…Open
Dr. Heidi Overton is currently working as a White House policy aide. If confirmed, she would lead an agency of 18,000 staffers who study and regulate food, drugs, medical devices, tobacco and more.
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Try The Epoch Times https://ept.ms/ReadEpochTimes The Department of Justice just released a statement, announcing the conviction of a man at the center of a giant, billion-dollar medicaid fraud scheme. Specifically, Mr. Brett Blackman, the CEO and owner of a software company called HealthSplash was just convicted in federal court for his part in a sprawling fraud scheme. This scheme involved using foreign telemarketers to aggressively call elderly Americans, get their medicaid beneficiary numbers, push medical devices onto them that they did not really need (random things like orthotic braces), then he would generate fraudulent doctors orders for those devices. Then, he would pass on the scripts in return for illegal kickbacks to both…
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