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Publication Exclusive: Monitoring long-term effects on vision in microgravity a priority for NASA’s future flight to Mars
NASA is banding together with thought leaders in ophthalmology and industry to try to remedy vision problems encountered by astronauts in space for lengthy periods of time. The hope is that in-flight monitoring and treatments will counter the detrimental effects of living in essentially a gravity-free environment.“When you are in space, you do not have gravity like we do on Earth,” OSN Chief Medical Editor Richard L. Lindstrom, MD, said. “In the head, gravity assists blood return to the heart. But in weightlessness, not only is this assist absent, but (Read more...)