Advances in space medicine threatened by funding cuts, says scientist-astronaut
Monday, September 12, 2011 - 06:00
in Biology & Nature
(Medical Xpress) -- Biomedical research in space has yielded a wealth of insights into the effects of weightlessness on the human body, but recent funding cuts undermine the ability of the United States to continue to contribute to the field of space medicine, writes Millie Hughes-Fulford, PhD, a biologist at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and a former NASA astronaut.
