By Arthur Caplan
Art Caplan has a new piece on hyperbaric oxygen therapy over at NBC News:
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Have you ever heard of it? The Internet sure has.
Centers and clinics tout the benefits of sitting in a tank breathing 100 percent oxygen at higher than atmospheric pressure for treating autism, infant brain trauma, multiple sclerosis, chronic fatigue, cerebral palsy and many other conditions.
There’s just one problem: There is no solid evidence that hyperbaric oxygen therapy does anything for any of these disorders.
Read the full article here.
