Mount Everest's "death zone" begins at 26,247 feet and stretches until its summit. Here's what happens to your mind and body, according to those who climbed it.

Researchers found that brief hypoxia, experienced at altitude or during illness, reprograms bone marrow progenitors, creating ...

Hypoxia due to impaired lung function or high altitude led to epigenetic changes in the genome of neutrophils, cells ...

People who climb too fast or too high risk acute altitude sickness, which can lead to life-threatening hypoxic brain injury. By using in vivo electrochemistry, researchers demonstrated that ...

Prior to recent COVID-19 travel restrictions, the Earth’s mountains attracted millions of international tourists, trekkers, mountaineers and skiers each year. When travel restrictions ease, visitor ...

Members of the 359th Aerospace-Medicine Squadron Aerospace Physiology and Operational Flight at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph have a new tool to help aircrews combat the effects of hypoxia, and they ...

Simulated high altitude could help older patients at risk of health complications related to surgery, a new study has found. A randomised trial of eight volunteers spent a week exposed to reduced ...

Human athletes have long utilized training at high altitudes to improve their oxygen-carrying capacity, so it should come as no surprise that trainers of equine athletes have tried similar methods.

Simulated high altitude could help older patients at risk of health complications related to surgery, a new study has found. Simulated high altitude could help older patients at risk of health ...