This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when they ...

Hikers, skiers, and adventurers who travel to high altitudes can sometimes develop acute mountain sickness. Other names for this condition are altitude sickness or high altitude pulmonary edema. It ...

March 20, 2012 — Ibuprofen appears to lower the risk of developing acute altitude sickness, according to a report from Grant S. Lipman, MD, from Stanford University School of Medicine in California, ...

NATICK, Mass. -- When Soldiers are suddenly hit with a wave of Acute Mountain Sickness while operating at high altitude, they might as well be considered casualties. For anyone, working with nausea, ...

Altitude sickness emerged as a human concern thousands of years ago, and not just out of thin air. Even with years of studying the symptoms and impact on the body, it still affects many people who ...

Sometimes called “mountain sickness,” altitude sickness is a group of symptoms that can strike if you walk or climb to a higher elevation, or altitude, too quickly. The pressure of the air that ...

Chinmay Sharma, a 27-year-old man from Uttar Pradesh, died in Leh reportedly due to altitude sickness, which is caused by low levels of oxygen in the air. The man went to the high-altitude area on his ...

Observations on acute mountain sickness occurring between 11,000 and 18,000 feet, in 1925 men, 18, to 53 years old, showed no direct relation between altitude and severity of illness; mild, moderate ...