Spinoff: Health and Medicine

In-Line Filtration Improves Hygiene and Reduces Expense

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

Water, essential to sustaining life on Earth, is that much more highly prized in the unforgiving realm of space travel and...

Spinoff: Health and Medicine

Robotics Offer Newfound Surgical Capabilities

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

Anyone who has ever worked on a car’s engine or tried to fix a sink knows the frustration of trying to perform precision work in a...

Spinoff: Health and Medicine

Hierarchical Segmentation Enhances Diagnostic Imaging

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

Developed by Dr. James Tilton, a computer engineer with Goddard Space Flight Center's Computational and Information Sciences and...

Spinoff: Health and Medicine

Multispectral Imaging Broadens Cellular Analysis

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

How does life begin and evolve? Does life exist elsewhere in the universe? What is the future of life on Earth and beyond?

Spinoff: Health and Medicine

Hand-Held Instrument Fights Acne, Tops Over-the-Counter Market

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

When the U.S. Congress created NASA in 1958, it sought to ensure that the Nation saw returns on its investments in aerospace...

Spinoff: Health and Medicine

Scheduling Accessory Assists Patients with Cognitive Disorders

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

Neuropsychology is the study of how the brain relates to behavior, emotion, and cognition. Clinical neuropsychologists...

Spinoff: Health and Medicine

Noninvasive Test Detects Cardiovascular Disease

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

For decades now, NASA has been sending spacecraft throughout the galaxy. Once in the cosmos, these crafts use advanced cameras to create...

Spinoff: Health and Medicine

Circulation-Enhancing Device Improves CPR

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

Ever stand up too quickly from a sitting or lying position and feel dizzy or disoriented for a brief moment? The downward push of Earth's gravity...

Spinoff: Health and Medicine

The Right Track for Vision Correction

More and more people are putting away their eye-glasses and contact lenses as a result of laser vision correction surgery. LASIK, the most widely performed version of this surgical procedure,...

Spinoff: Health and Medicine

A Look From The Inside

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has given the world amazing images of the distant stars, planets, and galaxies. The cutting-edge imaging technology that enhances the...

Spinoff: Health and Medicine

Segmenting Images For A Better Diagnosis

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

Originally conceived for use in terrestrial remote sensing applications, NASA's Hierarchical Segmentation (HSEG) software has found its way into a...

Spinoff: Health and Medicine

'Contact' In Space Leads To New Lenses

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

While gravity has its advantages in keeping us balanced and grounded here on Earth, scientists often find that they are at a disadvantage when...

Spinoff: Health and Medicine

Settling The Score With Heart Disease

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

Technology and medicine forged a bond in 1986 when a group of dedicated NASA scientists, University of Southern California (USC) medical professors,...

Spinoff: Health and Medicine

Freeing Water From Viruses And Bacteria

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

Four years ago, Argonide Corporation, a company focused on the research, production, and marketing of specialty nano materials, was seeking to...

Spinoff: Health and Medicine

A Bright Idea For The Eye

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

Throughout its existence, NASA has made many amazing discoveries in the field of optics that have led to improved eye care and eye wear applications on Earth....

Spinoff: Health and Medicine

Gearing Up For The Big Game And More

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

Honored as an inductee of the U.S. Space Foundation's Space Technology Hall of Fame and recognized by the American Astronautical Society as "one of...

Spinoff: Health and Medicine

Discovering New Drugs on the Cellular Level

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

With the Vision for Space Exploration calling for a sustained human presence in space, astronauts will need to grow plants, while in orbit, for...

Spinoff: Health and Medicine

Lighting the Way for Quicker, Safer Healing

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

Who's to say that a little light can't go a long way? Tiny light-emitting diode (LED) chips used to grow plants in space are lighting the way...

Spinoff: Health and Medicine

From Planetary Imaging to Enzyme Screening

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

To work in NASA’s Mission Control Center and share in the excitement of seeing the very first close-up images of Saturn being piped back to...

Spinoff: Health and Medicine

Space-Proven Medical Monitor: The Total Patient-Care Package

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

By mid-1963, American astronauts had visited space on six different occasions, all as part of NASA’s first human space...

Spinoff: Health and Medicine

Ingestible Thermometer Pill Aids Athletes in Beating the Heat

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

From the football turf to high above the Earth, heat exhaustion is a life-threatening concern. Heat exhaustion, or...

Spinoff: Health and Medicine

A Real Attention-Getter

While most parents would agree that playing video games is the antithesis of time well spent for their children, recent advances involving NASA biofeedback technology are proving otherwise.

The same...

Spinoff: Health and Medicine

A Robot to Help Make the Rounds

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

What employee never takes a vacation or a break, never calls in sick, works around the clock 365 days a year, has more than 3 million hours of experience,...

Spinoff: Health and Medicine

Hearing Is Believing

Twenty-six years ago, Adam Kissiah delivered a medical wonder to the world that has resulted in restored hearing for thousands of individuals, and allowed thousands of others born deaf to perceive sound for the very...

Spinoff: Health and Medicine

Protein Crystal Growth

Proteins are the chemical building blocks from which all human cells, organs, and tissues are made. They also serve as the hormones, enzymes, and antibodies that help the body fight off invading germs. Determining...

Spinoff: Health and Medicine

Express Testing Makes for More Effective Vet Visit

From “man’s best friend” to the exotic mammals and reptiles that grace the grounds of a zoo, recent improvements in wellness and prevention care are leading to longer and healthier...

Spinoff: Health and Medicine

New Modular Camera No Ordinary Joe

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

Although dubbed “Little Joe” for its small-format characteristics, a new wavefront sensor camera has proved that it is far from coming up short when...

Spinoff: Health and Medicine

Improving Vision

Many people are familiar with the popular science fiction series Star Trek: The Next Generation, a show featuring a blind character named Geordi La Forge, whose visor-like glasses enable him to see. What many people do...

Spinoff: Health and Medicine

Striding Towards Better Physical Therapy

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution

A new rehabilitative device promises to improve physical therapy for patients working to regain the ability to walk after facing traumatic...

Spinoff: Health and Medicine

Monitoring Outpatient Care

Each year, health care costs for managing chronically ill patients increase as the life expectancy of Americans continues to grow. To handle this situation, many hospitals, doctors’ practices, and home care...