NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Although home use of short-burst oxygen therapy is widely prescribed in the UK for patients with COPD, it may be helpful only in a small minority of patients, researchers ...

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy works by having patients breathe pure oxygen inside pressurized chambers, typically at 1.5 to 2.5 times normal atmospheric pressure. The treatment allows oxygen to dissolve ...

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is well known for treating scuba and deep-sea divers affected by the rapid change in pressure around them. But did you know that HBOT is also used to treat a variety of other ...

As a beauty and wellness writer, I feel it’s my duty to try every cutting-edge product and treatment around — even those I don’t quite understand (yet). Some are high-tech upgrades or innovations in ...

Although intravenous sodium thiosulfate (IV STS) is considered standard care in the treatment of calciphylaxis, HBOT has been reported to have beneficial effects. Researchers retrospectively reviewed ...

As a lifelong health and fitness enthusiast with 15 years of experience, Rachel MacPherson is passionate about cutting through fads and noise. Her aim is to clearly communicate health information with ...

In a pilot trial, researchers have reported that treating mild to moderately depressed individuals with oxygen-enriched air had "a significant beneficial effect" on some depression symptoms. Fifty-one ...

There were no differences in quality of life, symptoms, hospital admissions or mortality between a group of patients with pulmonary disease and low oxygen levels in the blood that received oxygen ...

BLOOM (TAMPA) – Dr. Joseph Dituri—Assistant Vice President at the University of South Florida, PhD researcher, retired U.S. Navy CDR, saturation diver, and best-selling author—joined Bloom host Gayle ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- It's an epidemic around the country: Veterans' mental health. Those who served are more likely than the general public to die by suicide, and with many struggling from ...

For a growing number of holistic-leaning celebrities, hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) has become as de rigueur as cold plunges and fitness trackers. Mayim Bialik posts selfies from her at-home ...