A recent mouse study suggests that low-oxygen conditions, such as being at high altitudes, could cause red blood cells to ...

New research suggests that exposure to lower oxygen levels at high altitude may trigger biological changes that could benefit people living with diabetes.

The results of newly reported preclinical research indicate that a genetic mutation that helps animals including yaks and Tibetan antelopes survive at high altitudes may hold the key to repairing ...

Traditional Tibetan medicine, refined over centuries in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, aims to offer a Chinese solution to the global medical challenge of hypoxia and altitude sickness, according to a ...

At altitudes over 2,400 metres, lack of oxygen — a condition called hypoxia — can cause acute mountain sickness. Incidence ...

A new study has found that placing older, sedentary adults in a simulated high-altitude environment with reduced oxygen for a week before major surgery greatly improved their hemoglobin levels, ...