Sunday, April 17, 2011

Don't Get Sick In Space [Medicine]

Jack Loftus — Muscle atrophy, radiation, micro meteorites...the list of maladies that can harm or kill astronauts is a long one. Sadly, it appears as though it just got one item longer.
According to scientists at the Johnson Space Center, the new problem facing future space explorers—perhaps on a Mars mission or beyond—is that drug effectiveness declines at a faster rate in space.
Chief amongst the drugs that lose effectiveness during prolonged spaceflight are paracetamol (headache

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