Doctors Urged to Ponder Health Risks of Space Travel

Friday, 14 December 2012 | by Pat's Picks

The prospect of space tourism is an exciting one, but it raises some odd questions for doctors, says the San Francisco Chronicle. Example: “What is the maximum time my patient with osteoporosis can spend on a vacation at a space hotel?” That question was posed in a paper published in the British Medical Journal today, which advocates that doctors start thinking about what space travel will mean in terms of a patient’s health.

SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle