Brain Blood Flow May Predict Alzheimer’s Risk Before Memory Loss

New noninvasive tools reveal that subtle shifts in brain blood flow and oxygen use may mirror key markers of Alzheimer’s risk ...
Earth.com

Oxygen may have powered the first steps of complex life

Ancient microbes tied to our earliest ancestors could use oxygen, reshaping ideas about how complex life began on Earth.
Discover Magazine

Oxygen May Have Been Key to Sparking the Rise of Complex Life

Learn how oxygen’s early rise could have given complex life the energy boost it needed to evolve.
Monthly Prescribing Reference

Home Oxygen Use Associated With Worsened Physical Function in COPD and IPF

home oxygen delivery_Getty_157329625 Use of home oxygen is associated with reduced physical function in patients with either COPD or idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. NEW ORLEANS – Use of home oxygen (O2 ...
Science Daily

Ancient microbes may have used oxygen 500 million years before it filled Earth’s atmosphere

Life on Earth may have learned to breathe oxygen long before oxygen filled the skies. MIT researchers traced a key ...
Medscape

Short-term Oxygen Prescriptions Lead to Inappropriate Long-term Use

In past Medscape posts, I've railed against the cost of inappropriate prescriptions for oxygen. A recent review recommended against prescribing oxygen for patients with isolated exertional or ...
The Gazette

University of Iowa researchers use electrochemical, biomedical engineering expertise to develop new health care technology

University of Iowa professors Drs. Suresh M.L. Raghavan and Syed Mubeen took their idea of developing a portable oxygen concentrator using electrochemical methods to the National Institutes of Health ...
Cult of Mac

How to use Apple Watch blood oxygen sensor, and what it’s good for

The blood oxygen sensor featured in Apple Watch Series 6 and 7 is “not intended for medical use,” Apple says. That seems odd, considering that low blood oxygen is a serious medical condition. If the ...