What is preventive medicine? Specifically, what is the specialty of preventive medicine, and how should it best be described? The specialty of preventive medicine is poorly understood, not only by the medical profession and the general public, but even among some of its practitioners. Currently, there is no unifying, vernacular explanation of the specialty of preventive medicine, to its detrime...

K.I. Buytaert, H.G. MacDougall, P.-F. Migeotte, N. Pattyn, G. Clement, S.T. Moore, P.H. Van de Heyning and F.L. Wuyts Antwerp University Research centre for Equilibrium and Aerospace (AUREA), ENT Department, Antwerp University Hospital, University of Antwerp, Wilrijkstraat 10, 2650, Edegem, Belgium. E-mail: kristof. [email protected] Department of Psychology, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, ...

Simulation is a methodology, not a technology, although technology plays a significant role in some forms of simulation. Its utility is well documented in training people who work in jobs where the risk to human life is high: Commercial aviation, aerospace, nuclear power, and the military all routinely simulate potentially life-threatening situations and allow their trainees to practice managem...

1Human Health and Performance, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 1601, NASA Parkway, Houston, Texas 77058, USA; 2Space Environment Utilization Center, Human Spaceflight Mission Directorate, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), 2–1–1 Sengen, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305–8505, Japan; 3Laboratory of Space and Environmental Medicine, Graduate School...

Kevin G. Phillips,* Angela M. Lee,* Garth W. Tormoen, Rachel A. Rigg, Anand Kolatkar, Madelyn Luttgen, Kelly Bethel, Lyudmila Bazhenova, Peter Kuhn, Paul Newton, and Owen J. T. McCarty Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon; Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Sou...

The influence of increased partial pressure of oxygen on hematopoiesis was studied in 8 normal subjects: 4 subiects were exposed to a total pressure of 700 mm. Hg, 33 per cent 02 and 62.3 per cent N2; and 4 subjects to a total pressure of 258 mm. Hg, 98.5 per cent O2 and 0.2 per cent N 2. Two control subjects remained outside the chamber during each 3O-day study. Measurements were designed to d...

A clinical presentation, evaluation and diagnosis of an aviator with stage 0 chronic lymphocytic leukemia discovered while being evaluated for asymptomatic mitral valve prolapse are discussed. The aeromedical disposition of this patient is also presented.

Several approximation ideas are presented. The main idea discussed is a weighting function technique that generates a global family of overlapping preliminary approximations whose centroids of validity lie on at the vertices of an N-dimensional grid, with vertices separated by a uniform step h. These preliminary approximations are constructed so they represent the behavior in hypercubes with a ...

INTRODUCTION The current epidemic of obesity and resultant diabetes mellitus type 2 (DMT2) is a tsunami that will impact healthcare worldwide and lap over into aerospace medicine. Metabolic syndrome (MBS) is the major link between obesity and DMT2. METHODS A review of U.S. Air Force Aeromedical Consult Service (ACS) records was accomplished looking at aviators with a diagnosis of DMT2. Case r...

3D printing is a relatively new, rapidly expanding method of manufacturing that found numerous applications in healthcare, automotive, aerospace and defense industries and in many other areas. In this review, applications in medicine that are revolutionizing the way surgeries are carried out, disrupting prosthesis and implant markets as well as dentistry will be presented. The relatively new fi...