NASA in Medical News

National Federation of the Blind Congratulates NASA on Successful Mission

Two Louis Braille Coins Return with Atlantis EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, May 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- When the space shuttle Atlantis landed today, it also returned from space two Louis Braille Bicentennial Silver Dollars. This unique coin commemorates the birth of the inventor of the readi...

Cardiac Patients Take NASA Super Plastic to Heart

WASHINGTON, May 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A NASA technology that was developed for an aerospace high-speed research program is now part of an implantable device for heart failure patients. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO ) NASA's Langley Research Center ...

Rice students win NASA national design award

It would be terrible if the first humans to reach Mars stepped onto the surface to discover their legs could no longer hold them. A team of Rice University students is working to make sure that doesn't happen. Five senior bioengineering students have designed a device to help astronauts keep t...

Medgate Selected by NASA to Deliver Health and Safety Software Solutions

TORONTO, July 2 /PRNewswire/ -- It is with great pride that Medgate announces that the U.S. Government National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has selected Medgate's Industrial Hygiene and Employee Health Software for use across its entire operation. NASA sourced, selected, and ...

VA Research Project on NASA Space Shuttle

Peake: VA Research Will Benefit Veterans, Others WASHINGTON, March 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) research project, which may lead to development of a vaccine to prevent Salmonella poisoning, was aboard the NASA space shuttle that launched March 11. ...

UNH, state health agency, private industry and NASA to tackle Lyme disease

DURHAM, N.H. -- Armed with satellite imagery, field samples, human Lyme disease case data, and mathematical models, an interdisciplinary research team from the University of New Hampshire, the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, and the private sector will conduct work on the ec...

Robotic Surgeon to Team Up With Doctors, Astronauts on NASA Mission

This week Raven, the mobile surgical robot developed by the University of Washington, leaves for the depths of the Atlantic Ocean. The UW will participate// in NASA's mission to submerge a surgeon and robotic gear in a simulated spaceship. For 12 days the surgical robotic system will be put through...

Astronauts Spacewalk On The International Space Station – NASA Report

The first spacewalk was successfully by two crewmen in the early April. Followed by them two astronauts finished up their maintenance jobs on the international space station within 6.5 hours on Thursday. // In 2001, a spacewalk was scheduled by 8 hours and 56 minutes. Except for a video camera...

Global Warming Disaster Closer Than Thought, Says NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has joined other agencies in warning of the global warming disasters. In fact it goes further than others and warns that even "moderate additional" greenhouse emissions are likely to push Earth past "critical tipping points" with "dangero...

Gloomy Days Dim Cognitive Powers of the Depressed

...e behaviors tend to escalate in lighter months. The effect of sunlight on cognition, however, has not been well researched. The researchers used nasa weather data to see if there was any correlation between days of sunlight and levels of cognitive impairment in people with and without depression. ...

Food Illness Accountability Undermines Food Safety Overhaul: Food Safety Legislation Propped up by Antiquated Estimates Rather Than CDC Data

...emic flu," says Hazen. "Forty years ago, nasa pledged to send men into space. In 1958 nasa launched its first satellite and by 1969 Apollo 11's men were walking on the moon. Could nasa have been successful if they were using 10-year-ol...

David Nagel Joins Align Technology Board of Directors

... group responsible for Mac OS software, Macintosh hardware, imaging and other peripheral products development. Before joining Apple, Nagel was head of nasa human factors research at NASA's Ames Research Center. Nagel holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in engineering and a Ph.D. in perception and mathematical psy...

Canonsburg Woman Undergoes Robot-Assisted Weight Loss Procedure at AGH

...s equipped with surgical instruments that are remotely controlled by surgeons sitting at a console in the operating room. Originally developed by nasa for operating on astronauts in space and used by the Department of Defense to operate on soldiers in the battlefield, the da Vinci System allows surge...

New Mexico Supreme Court Ruling Enhances Air Ambulance Safety

... personnel onboard. Damon Talbott's name now stands for an important legal precedent in the area of aviation safety." Slack, a pilot and a former nasa senior aerospace engineer, said there are hundreds of hospitals across the nation that contract with air ambulance services. Mike Worley and Clay...

Two Flight Surgeons Supporting Wyle's Bioastronautics Contract Selected for New Astronaut Class

...re/ -- Two flight surgeons supporting Wyle and its nasa Bioastronautics Contract have been selected for the next astronaut class. nasa announced last week that Dr. Kjell Lindgren and Dr...upport and other life sciences related services to nasa Dr. Lindgren is assigned to support...

Intralase “Bladeless” Lasik Gains Popularity in the Raleigh, NC Area

...r to make a flap is the safest and most predictable way to perform thin flap LASIK. After studying the benefits of LASIK performed with a laser flap, nasa has approved IntraLase LASIK with wavefront-guided correction for astronauts. To learn more about how Dr. Dornic can help you improve your vision...

Motorola Invests in Zephyr Technology Corporation

...yed real-time via Zephyr(TM) OmniSense software or third party software applications. Strategic customers of Zephyr(TM) include Stanford University , nasa Ames Research Centre, US Special Operations and Motorola. For more information please visit, www.zephyr-technology.com About Motorola Motor...

Acoustiblok, Inc. Combines Sound Abatement and Insulation Materials at Broward County Waste to Energy Plant to Reduce Industrial Noise Pollution

... system with a 5mm-thick layer of Thermablok(R) insulating material before applying the Acoustiblok; Thermablok adapts aerogel technology developed by nasa to create the highest insulating material in existence. Previously, aerogel had been difficult to adapt to most uses because of its fragility. Thermab...

NASA Selects Four Proposals to Study Space Radiation Risks

... WASHINGTON, June 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- nasa has selected four proposals for research to help u...pace radiation's affects on human living in space. nasa selected proposals from the New York University .../38461LOGO ) These institutions will become nasa Specialized Centers of Research. They will consist...

Hubble Space Telescope Servicing In Orbit Monitored By Three Schneider Lenses

...d that their Schneider C-mount Xenoplan and Cinegon lenses were selected by nasa to play an important role in the recent servicing in orbit of the Hubble Sp...dated. The Hubble Space Telescope service program is not the first time nasa has relied on Schneider lenses to help accomplish an important space missio...

If You Could Travel to Mars, Would You Go?

...ace threshold lies. "The passion and curiosity of the engineers and scientists who contributed to Facing Mars, including many who are a part of nasa and the Johnson Space Center, give a tremendous boost to this exhibit. Learning about the attempts to understand both Mars and the challenges that lo...

New Hope for Walking Normally, Living Better With Cerebral Palsy

...rigin of the GaitAid Virtual Walker: The idea for the GaitAid project was sparked 12 years ago while Professor Baram was designing a mechanism for nasa to navigate low-flying helicopters around obstacles. The concept of the design, which Baram later applied to the GaitAid Virtual Walker, is that the o...

Acoustics world wide press room now open

.../www.acoustics.org/press/157th/wuttiwat.html . WARNING MANATEES OF APPROACHING BOATS "Controlled field tests of the manatee device in Florida's nasa wildlife refuge are proving very effective. Real-world deployments of the manatee device are planned for on select Navy and DOD vessels are planned th...

Star Trek-Like Technology Offers Noninvasive Monitor for Patients and Athletes

...iology. She has worked closely with researchers at nasa Johnson Space Center in Houston to develop applications of the Venus system for space. Former nasa astronaut and NSBRI User Panel Chairman Dr. Leroy ...being developed by NSBRI to provide health care to nasa astronauts in space and to improve health care on ...

NASA Nanosatellite to Study Antifungal Drug Effectiveness in Space

... MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., April 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- nasa is preparing to fly a small satellite about the size of a loaf of bread tha...on is located at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, Calif. When nasa spaceflight engineers make contact with PharmaSat, which could happen as so...

NASA's 'COLBERT' Supplied by Wyle is Designed to Minimize House Calls

...aid Jim Kukla, a group vice president at Wyle, the nasa contractor that has taken a commercial-off-the-she...Report " on cable TV network Comedy Central, said nasa will name the new module Tranquility, instead of C...ng an online poll conducted by NASA. Instead, nasa said it will christen its new exercise treadmill t...

NASA, NSBRI Select 12 Proposals to Support Crew Health on Missions

... The 12 projects were selected from 54 proposals nasa received in response to a research announcement ti...ewed by non-NASA technical experts and selected by nasa and NSBRI. Five of the projects will join the Huma...ttp://www.nsbri.org For information about nasa and agency programs, visit: http://www.n...

Inventor of G-Suit Dies

...ars and is still used in some applications today. In 1958, research using the centrifuge got a second boost when the U.S. Air Force and nasa requested that Dr. Wood continue his studies on G forces. He and his team tested prototypes of the Project Mercury astronaut couches on Mayo's centrif...

University of Washington scientists one step closer to stopping bone loss during spaceflight

...er-related osteoporosis back on Earth. Funded by nasa and the National Space Biomedical Research Institu...est Analog." The study is expected to move to the nasa Flight Analogs Facility at the University of Texas...avanagh will collaborate with fellow scientists at nasa until the anticipated completion of the study in e...

Veteran Astronaut Joins Wyle Business Development Staff in Houston

... him on board." Parazynski was selected as a nasa Astronaut in March 1992 and is a veteran of five S...e from Stanford University and was selected as a nasa Astronaut during his residency in emergency medici...from the American Astronomical Association and the nasa Distinguished Service Medal. Wyle is the prim...

Space Research May Help Explain Salmonella Illness

... HOUSTON, March 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Salmonella bacteria research from two recent nasa space missions discovered key elements of the bacteria's disease-causing potential that hold promise for improving ways to fight food-borne infections...

Blue Highway Selects Invention Machine Goldfire to Fuel Product Pipeline and Sustain Breakthrough Innovation

...mpower innovators so they can repeatedly deliver cost efficient, market leading products -- whether it's creating algae-based biofuel, an engine for nasa or radical cardiac stents. "Global collaboration between corporations and research professionals is key to driving radical and incremental inno...

Tri-Life Health Offers NTR Addiction Recovery Center in Fort Collins, CO

...ine, and has received international recognition for his pioneering efforts in the field of preventative and space medicine. Dr. Billica served as the nasa Chief of Medical Operations at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, from 1990 - 2001. Shortly after he opened the Tri-Life Health Center in Fo...

Brookhaven Lab and BioSET patent a synthetic peptide that enhances bone growth

...b scientist Louis Pea developed B2A with BioSET, and he performed the initial studies at Brookhaven. "I became interested in bone growth factors after nasa built a radiation research facility at Brookhaven," Pea said. "Weightlessness in space causes bone loss, and cosmic radiation can cause damage to cell...

NorTech, Crain's Cleveland Business Honor 2009 Innovation Award Winners

...ng for a more normal lifestyle and eliminating the need for daily finger pricks, blood testing and insulin injections. http://www.uakron.edu/ nasa Glenn Research Center and ZIN Technologies vMetrics A compact, wireless biometric monitoring system originally designed to tra...

Coalition for Space Exploration Salutes American Heart Month

...swire/ -- "I salute American Heart Month, which calls attention to our nation's No. 1 killer - cardiovascular diseases, including stroke. As a former nasa astronaut, as well as having served as a clinical scientist and flight surgeon, I can attest to how innovations from space exploration directly benefi...

Nano World Headquarters Positioned to Boost U.S. Economy

... Additionally, Houston is also arguably the Energy Capital of the world, home to the largest medical center, the Houston Medical Center, and the nasa Johnson Space Center. With all of these factors at play, the NWHQ found a home at WaterLights where it could grow, thrive and contribute to nearby sc...

America's Best Hospitals Way Ahead of World Health Organization on Surgical Checklist Use

...ers LLC: LifeWings Partners was founded by a former U.S. Navy Top Gun instructor, a commercial airline pilot, and two physicians who are former nasa astronauts. LifeWings' practical and effective teamwork training programs are highly effective in reducing human error and currently involve the train...

Environmental Tectonics Corporation Announces Third Quarter and Year To Date Fiscal 2009 Results

...ine months of fiscal 2009 compared to $355,000 for the first nine months of fiscal 2008. The prior period benefited from the receipt of monies under a nasa grant and higher grant awards from the Turkish government. Interest expense for the first nine months of fiscal 2009 was $1,287,000 as compared...

From outer space to the eye clinic: New cataract early detection technique

...onths to one year. It may also help in the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, in which an abnormal protein may be found in the lens. In addition, nasa researchers will continue to use the device to look at the impact of long-term space travel on the visual system. "During a three year mission to ...