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Southern California hospitals are being inundated with coronavirus patients and do not have enough oxygen to treat those who are the most critically ill. The supply issue led to at least five Los Angeles County hospitals declaring an ‘internal disaster’ on Sunday, which included turning away all incoming ambulances with patients. The Los Angeles County … Read more
Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos’ new true crime TV series Exhumed is set for a January premiere on Oxygen By Sarah Abraham For Dailymail.com Published: 21:45 GMT, 4 December 2020 | Updated: 22:22 GMT, 4 December 2020 Kelly Ripa and husband Mark Consuelos have a new true crime series, Exhumed, which has been set for … Read more
Weak handshake may be a sign of long-term health problems and premature ageing in men due to lower levels of oxygen in their blood, study suggests Scientists find a link between poor grip and hypoxemia – low oxygen in the blood Hypoxemia can lead to oxygen-starved body tissues and lead to organ failure A simple test measuring … Read more
New technology will allow astronauts to transform salt water on Mars into oxygen and fuel when they land on the Red Planet in 2033 The system is designed with two sides – one splits the water to form a hydroxyl ion and the other splits it again to produce oxygen It produces 25 times more oxygen … Read more
Can pure oxygen reverse effects of ageing? People placed in pressurised chambers gain significant benefits from breathing clean air, research shows Breathing pure oxygen may help to reverse the ageing process, scientists claim Found those put in pressurised oxygen chambers gained significant benefits Sessions lasted 90 minutes each and took place for five days a … Read more
Professional runners with the ability to run a marathon in under two hours take in oxygen twice as fast as a regular person of the same age, a new study revealed. University of Exeter researchers analysed the rate of oxygen uptake among elite athletes as part of the sub-two-minute marathon Breaking2 project run by Nike. … Read more
A grandmother died in a ‘one-in-ten-million’ freak accident when an oxygen tank being used to treat her for suspected coronavirus exploded ‘like a Roman Candle firework’, an inquest has heard. Paramedics were administering oxygen treatment to Lynn Hadley at her home in Walsall, West Midlands, when sparks – described as like being from a ‘humongous … Read more
Coronavirus patients who suffer even a slight drop in their oxygen levels are at a heightened risk of dying from the disease, a study has warned. Current NHS guidelines consider someone to be in the healthy range if their blood oxygen levels are between 94 and 98 per cent. Under the current system, people with … Read more
Up to £250,000 has been awarded to a British firm by the European Space Agency (ESA) with the explicit aim of extracting oxygen out of lunar rocks. Metalysis, based in Rotherham, currently specialises in getting precious metals out of minerals for use in electronics. As part of its process it uses electricity to strip away … Read more
FDA warns against treating coronavirus at home with ‘oxygen concentrator’ devices that filter nitrogen out of the air and can cause ‘toxicity’ and lung damage The FDA warned against using oxygen concentrators or pulse oximeters to treat coronavirus at home Oxygen concentrators, which can’t be purchased without a prescription, provide supplemental oxygen by filtering out nitrogen in … Read more