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14 articles tagged · 1 topic · 5 clinical · 0 equipment · 8 research
Clinical articles (5)
Space pharmacy & drug stability
What astronauts actually take, whether drugs still work in space, what happens to medications stored for months to years, and how to plan a formulary for missions far from resupply.
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SMF-C-0001 · standard · draftMedical standards overview
What NASA's crew health standard actually requires, how astronauts are medically selected and recertified, and what that means for a clinician who sees space travelers.
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SMF-C-0015 · guide · draftPostflight recovery & surveillance
A timeline of what to expect after landing — day 0 to day 45 and beyond — what NASA measures and when, which problems can persist for months or years, and how lifelong occupational surveillance works.
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SMF-C-0000 · guide · draftClinician quick-start
A one-page orientation for GPs, emergency physicians, nurses and flight/aviation doctors: what to ask, what to check, the red flags, and where to find the details — before and after spaceflight.
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SMF-C-0003 · countermeasure · draftRadiation limits & monitoring
NASA's radiation limits in plain clinical terms, how crew dose is monitored, what shielding can and cannot do, and what it means for a patient's lifetime cancer screening.
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Research pages (8)
How evidence works
Why space medicine evidence is thin, what analogs and models can and can't tell us, how NASA rates risk, and how to read SMF's certainty grades.
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RSK-01 · NASA risk · draftRadiation & cancer
Space radiation may raise an astronaut's lifetime chance of cancer. There are no human data for this kind of radiation, so the risk is modeled, with wide uncertainty.
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RES-01 · atlas · draftRisk & Gap Atlas
One plain-language page for each of NASA's 21 active human-system risks, grouped by hazard, with current ratings, knowledge gaps and research.
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RSK-02 · NASA risk · draftBehavioral health & cognition
Long missions can strain mental health and thinking. Problems in flight have so far stayed below diagnostic levels, but analog data suggest risk grows with mission length and isolation.
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RSK-05 · NASA risk · draftMedical conditions in flight
Illness and injury will happen on long missions. Far from Earth, the crew must handle them with limited supplies and no quick evacuation.
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RES-05 · open questions · draftOpen questions
The biggest unknowns, in plain language, each linked to NASA's official knowledge gaps and the matching Risk & Gap Atlas page.
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RSK-10 · NASA risk · draftCardiovascular adaptations
Weightlessness shifts fluids toward the head and deconditions the heart and vessels, causing light-headedness on landing. Whether space radiation adds long-term heart disease risk is unresolved.
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RSK-17 · NASA risk · draftImmune changes
The immune system becomes dysregulated in flight, which can reactivate dormant viruses and cause rashes. These changes persist through 6-month missions.
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