Dan Buckland, MD, PhD
When your medications expire, you can go to your corner drug store to get the prescription refilled. The astronauts at the International Space Station, however, don’t have that luxury.
In an analysis published in npj Microgravity, a Nature journal, Duke Emergency Medicine faculty member Dan Buckland, MD, PhD and his coauthors noted that more than half of the medicines stocked on a typical space mission would expire before they could be replaced. Dr. Buckland is not only an emergency physician but also a scientist who studies human factors related to space exploration and travel.
Check out the Duke University School of Medicine article on this intriguing analysis!