Supplemental oxygen might not actually help many patients who routinely get it in a hospital or palliative care setting, according to a multinational survey led by Duke University Medical Center ...

The FAA's oxygen regulations represent minimum safety standards; real-world safety often necessitates supplemental oxygen at lower altitudes due to hypoxia's severe impairment of pilot judgment, ...

To conduct flights at higher altitudes, an aircraft must either have a pressurized cabin to replicate the pressure at a lower altitude, or its occupants must be given supplemental oxygen. Regardless ...

For decades, women have commonly been given oxygen during childbirth, but a new research review finds little evidence it benefits newborns. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists ...

In his companion editorial for the Long-Term Oxygen Treatment Trial (LOTT), Dr Magnus Ekström started with quite the understatement: “The fact that we all need oxygen to survive might make the benefit ...

According to the American Thoracic Society more than 1.5 million Americans use supplemental oxygen for respiratory disorders. Emergency room data from the Consumer Product Safety Commission, shows ...

A Polish skier and mountaineer just completed the second-ever ski descent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen.

Better support for oxygen services and better access to respiratory therapists would mean better health outcomes for patients ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Andrzej Bargiel of Poland summited Everest and skied all the way down to Base Camp without supplemental oxygen on September 22, ...

Based in Tampa, Florida, Virginia Pelley is a former women's magazine editor who has written health and fitness content for Men's Journal, Cosmopolitan magazine, the Chicago Tribune, ...