Auñón-Chancellor, 43, has been a NASA flight surgeon for 13 years, but she's also an electrical engineer, an aquanaut and a practicing physician specializing in both internal and aerospace medicine.

While delivering a thought-provoking keynote address at the Doctor's Day Conclave organized by the ET Times Now, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science & Technology Jitendra Singh, ...

Bone and muscle deterioration, radiation exposure, vision impairment -- these are just a few of the challenges space ...

UCLA launched its newest space medicine fellowship to train flight surgeons for future expeditions into space. UCLA will run the program alongside SpaceX, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and ...

"Space medicine is a critical part of, of getting that mission successful," said Dr. Philip Scarpa, deputy chief medical officer at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

A panel discussion was held on aerospace medicine and its relevance to commercial human space flight. Topics included the risk rate that an ordinary person faces in space flight and the major ...

Space is famously known as the final frontier for human exploration. It may also be the final frontier for human medicine. That’s what Dorit Donoviel, executive director of the Translational ...

Research in space medicine has revealed various ways microgravity and other factors affect the human body during space missions. A recent study involving 24 astronauts from different space ...

UCF’s College of Medicine has hired an internationally recognized space medicine expert to expand research into how spaceflight affects humans and create a space medicine curriculum for students ...

Space Medicine Research (MESPM 615) This course can be taken by MS2, MS3 and MS4 students (4 credits). This course is required for the Space Medicine Pathway. The course is a four-week mentored ...

HOUSTON — The American Academy of Physician Associates paid tribute to Houston, a.k.a. Space City, by inviting two astronauts — physician associate (PA) Hayley Arceneaux and physician ...

With space tourism slowly becoming a reality, space medicine needs to adapt to the changing health of would-be astronauts.