<p>Drug injections are fine but oxygen injections? As the air pollution keeps getting worse, this is the future to protect yourself from airborne diseases.<br /><br />Scientists are now developing ways to administer oxygen intravenously through gas-filled microparticles.<br /><br />The injectable oxygen can save patients with low oxygen levels in blood or those who need extra oxygen delivered to organs at risk for failure.<br /><br />"Injectable oxygen has actually been in development for a while now," said lead author John Kheir, a staff physician at Boston Children's Hospital and pediatrics instructor at Harvard Medical School.<br /><br />The injection was first tested on rabbits whose breathing tubes were blocked for 15 minutes.<br /><br />All the rabbits treated with the oxygen injection, except one, survived without a single breath and none had organ injuries, media reports said.<br /><br />"We are trying to optimise the injection's shelf life and performance," Kheir was quoted as saying.<br /></p>
<p>Drug injections are fine but oxygen injections? As the air pollution keeps getting worse, this is the future to protect yourself from airborne diseases.<br /><br />Scientists are now developing ways to administer oxygen intravenously through gas-filled microparticles.<br /><br />The injectable oxygen can save patients with low oxygen levels in blood or those who need extra oxygen delivered to organs at risk for failure.<br /><br />"Injectable oxygen has actually been in development for a while now," said lead author John Kheir, a staff physician at Boston Children's Hospital and pediatrics instructor at Harvard Medical School.<br /><br />The injection was first tested on rabbits whose breathing tubes were blocked for 15 minutes.<br /><br />All the rabbits treated with the oxygen injection, except one, survived without a single breath and none had organ injuries, media reports said.<br /><br />"We are trying to optimise the injection's shelf life and performance," Kheir was quoted as saying.<br /></p>