After Hours: Behind the Giant CPAP Machine Recall (From the Archives)
Full Measure After Hours
Sharyl Attkisson
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🗓️ 19 June 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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ProPublica’s Liz Moughon tells about the investigation into the unprecedented safety recall of America’s most popular CPAP machines.
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| 0:56.3 | Hi everybody, Cheryl Ackison here. I hope you enjoy this special from the archives edition |
| 1:02.5 | of Full Measure After Hours. |
| 1:09.2 | Hi everybody, Cheryl Ackeson here. Welcome to another edition of Full Measure After Hours. Today, ProPublica's |
| 1:17.0 | Liz Mohan tells about the investigation into the unprecedented safety recall of America's most popular CPAP machines. |
| 1:29.8 | Sunday, April 14th on full measure, I'll be looking into a story that it seems should have |
| 1:35.0 | made a lot bigger news. It's a huge recall of America's most popular CPAP machines. |
| 1:41.8 | In June of 2021, after discovering a potential health risk that was related to the |
| 1:47.4 | foam used in some of these CPAP machines, the company Phillips issued a voluntary recall. |
| 1:55.2 | Millions of people rely on these continuous positive airway pressure or CPAP machines to help them sleep better at night. |
| 2:04.2 | Chances are you or someone you know uses or has used a CPAP machine. |
| 2:09.9 | So when there was this huge safety recall of one brand, it raised a lot of questions and many of them are still open today. |
| 2:17.8 | We are going to be hearing today from Liz Mohan, who is a video journalist at the investigative |
| 2:23.1 | non-profit ProPublica. She's part of the team that covered this story. She helped make a short |
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