El Alto International Airport (Aeropuerto Internacional El Alto in Spanish; formerly John F. Kennedy Airport), is the seventh highest-altitude commercial airport in the world, and the highest Airport in South America. It is located in the city of El Alto, 14km southwest of La Paz City, ...
aAt3500 metres,La Paz,in Bolivia,is the highest capital in the world.Life is hard at high altitude,and the mountains make communications difficult.Many roads are in bad condition and accidents are frequent.One road in particular,which goes north from La Paz, is considered the most dangerous ...
Mi Teleferico, BoliviaCrossing the Bolivian capital of La Paz, the Teleferico is both the highest and longest city cable-car system on the planet. Built to relieve the city’s extreme road traffic, the three lines of this "subway in the sky" spirit the city’s 2.3 million citizens. At...
The aim of this work was to communicate the first standardized room-temperature plastination protocol with silicone in Bolivia, with the unique feature of doing so at the altitude of the city of La Paz, thus constituting the first communication of a plastinati...
Research comparing the high-altitude regions of Tibet, Bolivia, and Ecuador has revealed similar trends. A study completed April 22, 2020 and published in the June 2020 scientific journal “Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology” indicates that populations living above 9,842 feet elevation reported sig...
LA PAZ, Bolivia --According to a flight attendant who served Pope Francis on a flight Wednesday betweenQuito, Ecuador, and La Paz, Bolivia, the Pope drank a tea made of a combination of coca leaves, chamomile and anise. Tea made from coca leavesis a common remedy for altitude sickness in...
Birth defects can be increased or decreased by the chronic hypoxia at high altitude. Geneticist Igor Salvatierra from the Hospital Materno-infantil discussed the interaction between oxygen levels and chromosomes at the Chronic Hypoxia conference in La Paz, Bolivia. He focused on a deformity we also...
(Armada). The international team, composed of 16 Principal Investigators and 28 PhD and Post-Doc students, arrived at 4:00 pm at the Airport in La Paz, Bolivia (4,100m). They set up all their equipment in the different laboratories on floor 1 (auditorium and the auditorium large annex ...
One of our medical students Yeshua working in the lab Read on … Medical Student & Training THE BEST HIGH-ALTITUDE RESEARCH FACILITY IN THE WORLD located in the “Capital of Hypoxia”, La Paz, Bolivia 3,500masl. Read here about our latest high altitude research expedition ...
BLDE University invitation to the conference of Prof. Dr. Gustavo Zubieta-Calleja of IPPA, Bolivia Going to visit Prof. Kusal Das’s Laboratory. Prof. Kusal Das’ Outstanding Laboratory !! The head Prof. Kusal Das, researchers and students at the Laboratory of Vascular physiology and Medicine ...