Earlier this year, a five-year-old boy was killed at an "alternative medicine clinic" in the United States, when the ...

A sudden rash after diving can signal a serious condition. Here's what it could mean—and how to seek treatment.

The dots that Henry saw on his skin and the itching, crawling sensation that he felt were just a couple of the symptoms of altitude-induced decompression sickness. Most people know DCS by its ...

If the quantity of bubbles exceeds the capacity of tissues to bear this load, the result is decompression sickness. Scuba divers generally use compressed air as the breathing mixture, and in their ...

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy — or HBOT — might sound futuristic, but it’s rooted in decades of medical science and is quickly ...

A study in Switzerland raised fears that diving can do long-term harm, on top of the short-term risks of brain damage, caused by decompression illness. Decompression illness - otherwise known as ...

All eventually died. A post-mortem examination revealed that the whales showed signs of decompression sickness (what scuba divers call "the bends"). Decompression sickness can occur when a mammal ...