by Paul Auerbach, M.D. reposted with permission from the Medicine for the Outdoors Blog In the current issue of High Altitude Medicine & Biology (volume 9, number 4, 2008), there is an excellent article entitled "Travel to High Altitude with Young Children: An Approach for Clinicians,"...
A recent report published in the Proceedings of the National Academey of Sciences entitled Evidence for a fundamental and pervasive shift away from nature-based recreation by Oliver Pergams and Patricia Zaradic shows that after 50 years of steady increase, the per capita visits to U.S. National Parks...