A medical expert who specializes in pulmonology has told jurors in Derek Chauvin‘s murder trial that George Floyd died from a ‘low level of oxygen’ that damaged his brain and caused his heart to stop when he was pinned to the street by Minneapolis police officers. Dr Martin Tobin, who has been a lung and critical care … Read more
Prehistoric cave painters who daubed colourful murals on the walls of deep caverns some 30,000 years ago may have been hallucinating due to a lack of oxygen. A new study speculates that the artists who produced numerous underground works across Europe may have deliberately starved themselves of oxygen. Among the paintings mentioned by Israeli researchers are … Read more
Chinese students generated enough oxygen, water and food in a self-contained habitat to last a full year without help from the outside world. Two groups lived in the sealed environment Yuegong-1, or Lunar Palace 1, for a total of 370 days, but one group was able to survive without the need of outside materials – … Read more
Most life on Earth will be WIPED OUT in a billion years due to an extreme plunge in oxygen levels, scientists warn Researchers from Japan and the US modelled the future of Earth’s atmosphere Rising solar brightness will impact surface temperatures and photosynthesis This will cause rapid atmospheric deoxygenation in around a billion year’s time The … Read more
A drug normally used to treat gout may prevent hospitalised coronavirus patients from needing oxygen, research has found. Brazilian academics claim colchicine could be given to hospital patients battling moderate to severe Covid to help them recover quicker. The 75-person study showed the 30p pill helped reduce the time patients needed breathing tubes by more … Read more
Lee Rigby killer Michael Adebowale, 29, ‘is on oxygen in hospital after contracting coronavirus’ while serving his sentence in Broadmoor Michael Adebowale, 29, has reportedly been taken from high-security hospital He is said to have caught coronavirus more than two weeks ago, says the Sun He is now being treated at a Covid ward after … Read more
Desperate relatives of Covid patients in Brazil have been queuing for hours to fill their loved-ones’ oxygen tanks while a new mutant strain of the virus ravages the country. Amozonas state has been inundated with cases of the new variant and doctors at hospitals in Manaus, the rainforest’s largest city, are being forced to decide … Read more
Brazil‘s new strain of coronavirus is ripping through the Amazon where tearful locals wait desperately for dwindling oxygen supplies to keep their relatives alive and doctors face the wretched task of deciding who can breathe. At one hospital in Manaus, a despairing relative carried an oxygen tank for his own mother-in-law just to help her … Read more
Brazil‘s new strain of coronavirus is ripping through the Amazon where tearful locals wait desperately for dwindling oxygen supplies to keep their relatives alive and doctors face the wretched task of deciding who can breathe. At one hospital in Manaus, a despairing relative carried an oxygen tank for his own mother-in-law just to help her … Read more
The oxygen supply at a hospital under intense strain with coronavirus patients has ‘reached a critical situation’, according to an internal document. Bosses at Southend Hospital said there is ‘high demand for oxygen’ because of rising numbers of Covid-19 patients and they ‘are working to manage this’. An internal memo seen by BBC Essex revealed that … Read more