(This is an excerpt of the Health Rounds newsletter, where we present latest medical studies on Tuesdays and Thursdays.) Feb ...

Scientists have long known that people living at high altitudes, where oxygen levels are low, have lower rates of diabetes ...

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In a 2023 paper on hypoxia and glucose metabolism, our lab showed how organisms rewire their metabolism to adapt to low ...

The Earth's magnetic field and oxygen evolved together over 540 million years, according to a major NASA study.

Vital signs, those fluorescent green numbers that beep, ding, and dash across black screens on the monitors in hospital rooms, have become a new source of angst during the coronavirus pandemic. One of ...

A New Hampshire emergency room doctor says simple technology could save lives in the fight against the coronavirus. Dr. Richard Levitan, who has three decades of experience, volunteered last month at ...

Chronic wounds often spiral out of control because oxygen can’t reach the deepest layers of injured tissue. A new gel developed at UC Riverside delivers a continuous flow of oxygen right where it’s ...

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy is a medical treatment that increases blood plasma oxygen levels 10 to 20 times higher than normal to assist the body in healing its damaged tissues.

An aerial view of a river surrounded by trees (Brian Beckwith/Unsplash via Courthouse News) (CN) — Inland waters like rivers, lakes, streams and reservoirs need oxygen to survive, just like we do, but ...

A new study suggests that some of the world’s oxygen-deprived oceans could eventually regain higher oxygen levels in the centuries ahead, even as the planet continues to warm.

For centuries, it was believed that the production of oxygen relied on one component: photosynthesis (the conversion of light ...