Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. COVID-19 patients with severe disease were significantly less likely to require mechanical ...

Efforts to reduce nitrogen pollution in the Sound, include wetlands restoration, upgraded septic systems, stormwater ...

A nasal cannula is a medical device that provides supplemental oxygen therapy to people who have lower oxygen levels. There are two types of nasal cannulas: low flow and high flow. The device has two ...

The summertime low-oxygen “dead zone” on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico off the coasts of Louisiana and Texas is likely to be close to record size, at 7,829 square miles, or roughly the size of ...

Among hospitalized COVID-19 patients, the use of high-flow oxygen through a nasal cannula reduced the need for invasive mechanical ventilation and sped up recovery compared to conventional oxygen ...

In hospitalized veterans with COVID-19, obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) was associated with greater use of non-invasive ventilation (NIV), but booster vaccination reduced this risk, a retrospective ...

Adequate blood flow and oxygen delivery to the peripheral tissues of a sick, newborn infant is a sine qua non of neonatal intensive care. The adequacy of tissue oxygen delivery is difficult to measure ...

Routine use of prophylactic oxygen had no benefit or harm in a new large randomized trial in acute stroke patients. "This is the largest study of oxygen in acute stroke — the best data we have on this ...

THE need to lessen hypoxemia during acute episodes of worsened respiratory failure in patients with chronic obstructive lung disease is generally accepted. This situation poses a special problem in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Higher dose vs. low dose corticosteroids raises the risk for mortality by 60% in this patient population. Those ...

To the Editor: In the article by Franklin et al. (March 22 issue), 1 in which infants with bronchiolitis were assigned to receive low-flow oxygen (standard-therapy group) or high-flow oxygen ...