Many people are familiar with altitude sickness and the effect it has on the body, but many people often fail to realize that there is a severe form of altitude sickness that even people living at ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Otherwise healthy older children and adolescents who visit high-altitude destinations may develop acute mountain sickness in the first few days after they arrive, results ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Via ferrata in Slovenia's Julian Alps: If you don't have the time to do it on site, you can get your body used to the thinner air ...

Q I get headaches at high altitude. Is there anything I can do to prevent them? A About one in four persons who climb to altitudes 8,500 feet above sea level develops intense, throbbing headaches and ...

My first visit to high altitude didn’t go well. I was at a training camp in the French Alps, and on one of our easy days my teammates and I decided to take a cable car to the summit of Aiguille du ...

Acute mountain sickness (AMS) is common at high altitudes and is often associated with headaches. AMS is theorized to be caused by changes in cerebral blood flow, but this phenomenon is still not well ...

NEW YORK, July 31 (Praxis Press) Several medications have been used to alleviate or prevent acute mountain sickness (AMS), but their relative efficacies are unknown. Dumont and colleagues reviewed 33 ...

If you want to learn how to prevent altitude sickness, you need to understand how it can occur. And few people are as familiar with how it can ruin a hunt as Cody Arnold, who worked as a hunting guide ...

Many people are familiar with altitude sickness and the effect it has on the body, but many people often fail to realize that there is a severe form of altitude sickness that even people living at ...