Sleep Apnea: A High Growth Device Market Awakens

There's a reason why Philips paid $5 billion and a premium to buy Respironics. Sleep apnea is an enormous emerging opportunity: in the US, 38 million patients have the disease, and there are compelling clinical reasons to treat them. That's big business for device companies, if only they can access patients and establish new referral patterns in a highly fragmented market.

By Mary Stuart

Obstructive sleep apnea has been, until recently, somewhat of a silent epidemic (except for the snoring). But at the tail...

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