The clinical and survival benefit of home oxygen therapy, both LTOT and nocturnal oxygen therapy, for patients with COPD and moderate hypoxemia was evaluated in this meta-analysis. Home oxygen therapy ...

Large randomized trial "recalibrates expectations," experts say ...

Nothing captivates patient (or physician) imagination quite like oxygen. Its power and necessity are considered self-evident. Also a given is the need for saturation to be 90% or above. It’s a nice ...

While 80% of patients with pulmonary fibrosis find oxygen therapy beneficial, many face significant emotional and practical hurdles during initiation.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The addition of high-flow nasal cannula to long-term oxygen therapy may ...

Oxygen therapy can help people with certain health conditions, such as emphysema, sleep apnea, or severe COVID-19, get enough oxygen to stay well and function. Oxygen therapy may be a temporary ...

Pressurized oxygen is proven to help the body heal faster. Now it’s being touted for reversing aging, boosting your brain and ...

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) introduces pure oxygen to the body to encourage the natural healing process. Doctors use HBOT to accelerate the healing of certain infections, open wounds, and ...

Although it may seem self-evident that "more oxygen is better" for medical illness, this is not necessarily true. I recently interviewed Ola Didrik Saugstad, MD, who demonstrated that the traditional ...

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy was first used to treat decompression sickness for deep-sea divers. Now, it has grown to treat many medical problems, including carbon monoxide poisoning, gas gangrene, and ...

Oxygen therapy can help treat cluster headaches. However, current research does not support its use for migraine and other headache types. Oxygen therapy involves breathing in air that contains 100% ...