The hypoxia awareness training is conducted in two phases. The first is a non-flying experience to teach you to recognize your own individual early symptoms of the onset of hypoxia, and the second ...

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 ...

The interplay between hypoxia, body composition and metabolic health has become an increasingly investigated field. Hypoxia – a state of reduced oxygen availability – has been shown to influence a ...

Researchers at the University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas have demonstrated that, contrary to prevailing dogma, hypoxia can be remarkably beneficial to the heart. These ...

The Office of Naval Research has funded a successful program to help train naval aviators to recognize the early effects of hypoxia—oxygen starvation. When the brain is starved of oxygen, it starts to ...

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, ...

On December 23, 2025, Sivert Guttorm Bakken, a 27-year-old Norwegian biathlete and European champion, was found dead in his hotel room at Passo di Lavazè in northern Italy, 1808 m above the sea level.