medical research Archives - SpaceNews https://spacenews.com/tag/medical-research/ Covering the business and politics of space Thu, 26 Jun 2025 03:28:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://spacenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/cropped-SN_forza_star-32x32.png medical research Archives - SpaceNews https://spacenews.com/tag/medical-research/ 32 32 80681979 This is not the time to cut space-enabled medical research https://spacenews.com/this-is-not-the-time-to-cut-space-enabled-medical-research/ https://spacenews.com/this-is-not-the-time-to-cut-space-enabled-medical-research/#respond Wed, 02 Jul 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://spacenews.com/?p=519755 ISS

Research that leverages space to develop treatments for blindness, cancer, and Parkinson’s disease is jeopardized by the $6.1 billion NASA budget cuts recently announced for 2026 by President Trump. The […]

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]]> https://spacenews.com/this-is-not-the-time-to-cut-space-enabled-medical-research/feed/ 0 519755 How to conduct safe and robust medical research in the new space age https://spacenews.com/how-to-conduct-safe-and-robust-medical-research-in-thenew-space-age/ https://spacenews.com/how-to-conduct-safe-and-robust-medical-research-in-thenew-space-age/#respond Wed, 08 Jan 2025 14:00:00 +0000 https://spacenews.com/?p=510876 ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti operates the rHEALTH One analyzer on the International Space Station in May 2022. Credit: NASA

It usually starts with a headache. Headaches are one of the earliest symptoms of Space Adaptation System, a type of space motion sickness that affects 60% to 80% of astronauts […]

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]]> https://spacenews.com/how-to-conduct-safe-and-robust-medical-research-in-thenew-space-age/feed/ 0 510876 Why space is the next frontier to accelerate medical research https://spacenews.com/why-space-next-frontier-accelerate-medical-research/ https://spacenews.com/why-space-next-frontier-accelerate-medical-research/#respond Tue, 10 Sep 2024 15:58:19 +0000 https://spacenews.com/?p=505653 Polaris Dawn takes off Sept. 10 at 5:23 AM EDT as SpaceX’s Falcon 9 lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: Polaris Program / John Kraus

Early Tuesday morning, Polaris Dawn flew through the atmosphere, taking its four crewmembers to the highest altitude humans have experienced since the Apollo era, where they will conduct the first […]

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