"Aerospace Medicine" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
That branch of medicine dealing with the studies and effects of flight through the atmosphere or in space upon the human body and with the prevention or cure of physiological or psychological malfunctions arising from these effects. (from NASA Thesaurus)
| Descriptor ID |
D000337
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| MeSH Number(s) |
H02.403.029
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Aerospace Medicine" by people in this website by year, and whether "Aerospace Medicine" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2007 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2008 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2014 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2017 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2024 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2025 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Aerospace Medicine" by people in Profiles.
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Spine Surgery in Space. Aerosp Med Hum Perform. 2025 Nov; 96(11):1000-1007.
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Wound-healing and onboard care during long-duration human deep space exploration from a surgical perspective through the lens of a scoping review. J Vasc Surg Venous Lymphat Disord. 2025 09; 13(5):102249.
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Development of Progressively Earth-Independent Medical Operations to Enable NASA Exploration Missions. Wilderness Environ Med. 2025 Sep; 36(1_suppl):95S-103S.
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Predicting Exploration Crew Medical Officer Training Needs: Applying Evidence-Based Predictive Analytics to Space Medicine Training. Wilderness Environ Med. 2025 Sep; 36(1_suppl):7S-23S.
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Impact of Spaceflight on Upper Extremity Orthopedic Health. Aerosp Med Hum Perform. 2024 Oct; 95(10):777-783.
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Selecting Medical Conditions Relevant to Exploration Spaceflight to Create the IMPACT 1.0 Medical Condition List. Aerosp Med Hum Perform. 2023 Jul 01; 94(7):550-557.
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Establishment of an open biomedical database for commercial spaceflight. Nat Med. 2022 04; 28(4):611-612.
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NASA launch for jobless postdocs. Nature. 2020 11; 587(7833):197.
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Promoting Tech Transfer Between Space and Global Mental Health. Aerosp Med Hum Perform. 2020 Sep 01; 91(9):737-745.
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Dermatologic manifestations in spaceflight: a review. Dermatol Online J. 2018 Nov 15; 24(11).