Immunology

Space Travel Research May Have Implications for Allergy/Immunologic Medicine on Earth

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, March 28th, 2000

Three new research studies presented at the 56th American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (AAAAI) Annual Meeting in offer the latest information on the effects of space travel on the human immune system, which may some day offer new treatments for allergic and immunologic diseases here on Earth.

Three leading scientists have stepped away from conventional thinking to find answers about how the immune system changes during space travel.

Desmond Lugg, MD, FAFOM, director of Polar Medicine for the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition in Tasmania spoke on his 25 years of research on the effects of isolation and containment on T...

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