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Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) is increasingly appearing in the news and new research as a treatment for a variety of conditions involving inflammation. Use the search or select an article below to keep up to date on the most recent HBOT News.
Recent Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) News
Howard Stern – How Joe Namath Reversed His Own Brain Damage Caused by Football
The former N.Y. Jets quarterback opens up to Howard Stern in an interview about using a hyperbaric oxygen therapy chamber to reverse damage to his brain and why he wouldn’t want his son to play football.
Hall-of-famer says treatment is curing disabling effects of concussions
From CINCINNATI (WKRC) - by Duane PohlmanNational Football League (NFL) statistics reveal its players suffered nearly 2,000 concussions from 2012 to 2019. Even with new concussion protocols designed to protect today’s players from...
Veteran suicide is a problem. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is a solution.
Excerpt from Military Times, Rep. Greg Murphy.Each year, the United States recognizes September as National Suicide Prevention Month. In 2017 alone, more than 47,000 Americans tragically died from suicide. More than 6,100 of these...
Legislative Alert: S.785 to Prevent Veteran Suicide Moves to the House
From Treat NowThe Commander John Scott Hannon Veterans Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Bill Unanimously Passed in the Senate. Bipartisan legislation to connect veterans with life-saving care is one step closer to becoming law.As...
How HBO the Treatment not the TV Network Could Help Doctors Fight COVID-19
Featured in Fortune Magazine:In a world full of acronyms—NASA, scuba, and, yes, COVID, among others—it may seem imponderable that one of the most well-known has gone largely unmentioned during discussions of the novel coronavirus. I...
Senate Passes Comprehensive Bill to Combat Veteran Suicide
“On Saturday I heard another compelling story from a North Dakota veteran named AJ about the powerful difference Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy can make in the lives of our veterans. Our legislation advances the study of this impactful...
AP / ABC News: Doctors try pressurized oxygen chambers in COVID fight
As a New York University medical researcher who works once a week in an emergency room, Dr. David Lee had the luxury of time to think like a scientist while also treating coronavirus patients whose lungs kept giving out. In every case,...
Why Does the FDA Have Such an Unflattering View of Hyperbaric Medicine?
Article by Dick Clark on National Baromedical ServicesOn May 15, I submitted an Emergency Use Authorization request, seeking FDA approval for hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) treatment of COVID-19 disease. You can read the entire submission in a...
UHMS Reverses Position On Use of HBOT for COVID-19
The Undersea Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) has just reconsidered its original opinion on the use of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy to treat patients with COVID-19. They now support the compassionate care use of HBOT for COVID-19 in their...
Recent Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) Research
Cognitive enhancement of healthy older adults using hyperbaric oxygen: a randomized controlled trial
Abstract:More than half of community-dwelling individuals sixty years and older express concern about declining cognitive abilities. The current study’s aim was to evaluate hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) effect on cognitive functions...
The Role of Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment for COVID-19: A Review
AbstractThe recent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic produced high and excessive demands for hospitalizations and equipment with depletion of critical care resources. The results of these extreme therapeutic efforts have been...
Hyperbaric oxygen as a treatment for COVID-19 infection?
Abstract Recently the internet has been abuzz with new ideas to treat COVID-19, including hyperbaric oxygen (HBO2) therapy, undoubtedly driven by the fact that until recently there have been few therapeutic options for this highly...
New Clinical Trial: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in Non-ventilated COVID-19 Patients (HBOT)
Dr. Ory Wiesel of Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY has begun a new clinical trial to study COVID-19 patients treated with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in Non-ventilated COVID-19 Patients (HBOT).Brief Summary:This study is a...
Chinese Clinical Trial: Efficacy and Safety of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy to patients with novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19)
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), researchers at the Sixth Medical Center of PLA General Hospital, in Bejing, China and the Wuhan Huoshenshan Hospital in Wuhan City, China have begun a clinical trial entitled, "Efficacy...
COVID-19, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), and hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT): what is the link?
Excerpt The absence of drug treatments to limit lethality and vaccines to curve down COVID-19 infections have left clinicians with the single option of using supportive therapy as the only intervention, such as the delivery of oxygen...
New Clinical Trial: Compassionate Use of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Thomas E Serena, MD of the SerenaGroup, Inc. with the Wound Treatment Center at Opelousas General Hospital in Louisiana have begun a new clinical trial to study COVID-19 patients treated with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy under...
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Effect in COVID-19 RCT
Amir Hadanny, MD and Shai Efrati, MD of The Sagol Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Research at Shamir Medical Center (the largest hyperbaric treatment center worldwide) in Be'er Ya'akov, Israel has begun a new clinical trial to study...
New Clinical Trial: Management by Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy of Patients With Hypoxaemic Pneumonia With SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) (OHB10cov)
Jean-Eric Blatteau, MD, PhD of Sainte Anne Military Teaching Hospital in Toulon, France has begun a new clinical trial to study the treatment of COVID-19 patients using Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy. Several patients with hypoxaemic...