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Questions tagged [medical]

Questions regarding medical aspects of space exploration, like effects of missions on human body during launch, flight and reentry.

Questions regarding medical aspects of space exploration, like effects of missions on human body during launch, flight and reentry. This tag can include also medical requirements for going into space.

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What procedures are there to perform emergency surgery on the space station or space shuttle?

There are many dangers involved in space exploration, as we all know, there are always chances that an astronaut would be seriously injured or fall ill. This would be especially true for continued space exploration, particularly on long duration…
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Pathogenic microorganisms and antibiotics in space

An experiment launched with the Cygnus 'craft brought my attention to another difference between Earth and space environments: human infections may become more lethal, more virulent, and less prone to antibiotic treatment in space due to…
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