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 ...

Mountain sickness The anti-inflammatory drug ibuprofen can reduce acute altitude sickness suffered by a quarter of the millions of Americans who travel to the mountains to ski or hike, according to a ...

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana — Women taking oral contraceptives are at significantly increased risk of developing altitude sickness and are less likely to respond to treatment compared with those not on the ...

During a hiking trip, a friend relayed a piece of advice she’d received: To prevent altitude sickness, take an antacid. Now, when she and her husband head to the mountains, they chew on Tums. Hmm.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WNDU) - Dr. Bob Cassady from the South Bend Clinic joins us every Tuesday on 16 News Now at Noon to answer your medical questions. Question #1: “Dr. Bob, for patients who may just be ...

BERLIN — Be it on Mount Kilimanjaro, in the Andes, Himalayas or somewhere else, mountaineering can give you an unforgettable high. But it comes with a risk that's often underestimated: altitude ...

They call it the “death zone.” It’s a stretch of Mount Everest that’s about 26,000 feet up and is strewn with something like 200 corpses permanently frozen into the landscape —a warning to other ...