Oxygen

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Health & Medicine

Closing the oxygen access gap

In Australia, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, we take oxygen access in our hospitals for granted. But new research is working to ‘close the oxygen gap’ globally and potentially change the world

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Health & Medicine

Saving lives when the power goes out

In many remote communities around the world, electricity can be intermittent at best and non-existent at worst, but FREO₂ LPOS is delivering oxygen without power and saving children’s lives

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Health & Medicine

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Podcast

The breath of life

In many remote communities, the thought of electricity can be a distant reality, but now a device is producing oxygen without electricity and saving lives

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Health & Medicine

Oxygen machine powers on to save lives

How a physicist and a global health expert joined forces to give the breath of life to critically-ill children in hospitals without a secure source of electricity

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