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What home-healthcare can learn from space health

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Dorit Donoviel, director of the Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH), discusses how new innovations originally designed for space have found their way into our homes.

 

Dynamic workstation aims to improve outcomes for patients with mobility issues

Altwork Founder and CEO Che Voigt demonstrates workstation technology that adapts to any position, benefiting those with spinal or muscular issues.
 

A look at female change makers in medicine

Author Emily Peters discusses how her book "Procedure: Women Remaking Medicine" is involved in the conversations about space and creating a better healthcare system in the future.

 

Advancing research into effects of solar radiation on blood cell count

Drew Glaser, postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Davis, talks about her research using microfluidics technology to simulate conditions that occur in space.
 

The 'intellectual challenge' faced in configuring deep space travel

Dr. Dan Lowenstein, executive vice chancellor and provost at UCSF, discusses how focusing on the health of humans leaving the planet pushes our current capabilities.