Meet one of Baylor’s space medicine pioneers and rising stars
Dr. Mohammad Hirzallah toggles between being an investigator in the Center for Space Medicine and providing neurocritical care for patients.
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Center for Space Medicine
Space health advancement reaches beyond borders
Baylor’s Center for Space Medicine recognizes that sharing research and expertise beyond borders can provide benefits to all mankind.
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Astro Ethics: Grand Ethical Challenges for Safeguarding Human Health in Outer Space
There is a well-established ethical and regulatory infrastructure that governs human research on Earth, but what happens when health research extends beyond Earth? Astronauts and
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Center for Space Medicine, TRISH use spaceflight to advance healthcare on Earth
When you go to space, almost every system in the body is impacted in some way. Lack of gravity with no intervention leads to bone
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Good Ethics to Good Science in Commercial Spaceflight Human Research
The world is watching as the commercial spaceflight industry takes shape. More than ever, Spaceflight Participants – the Federal Aviation Association (FAA) approved term for
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Resonance podcast: What are the health hazards of space travel?
Dr. Kris R. Lehnhardt discusses his journey as an emergency medicine physician and the health effects of space travel on the Resonance podcast.
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Space health to be explored during all-civilian Inspiration4 spaceflight
The Translational Research Institute for Space Health will perform health research on Inspiration4, the first all-civilian spaceflight.
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‘Tissue chips’ could reveal health risks of deep-space travel
Fifty years ago, NASA launched the Apollo program, which landed a dozen Americans on the moon. Nowadays, NASA is not only eying another moon landing,
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Gender, health, and space exploration: A leap for womankind?
In 1983, Sally K. Ride became the first American woman to travel to space with the launch of NASA’s seventh space shuttle mission. Since then,
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How to build an astronaut’s first aid kit
Have you ever wondered how astronauts take care of their health in space? Dr. Virginia Wotring, deputy director of the Translational Research Institute for Space Health
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