Sweat it out: Study examines ability of sweat patches to monitor bone loss
Wednesday, October 1, 2008 - 13:21
in Health & Medicine
Some health assessments that are routinely carried out on Earth are not practical when the "patients" are free-floating astronauts on long space flights, such as missions to Mars or the Moon. A new, NASA-funded study from the University of Houston department of health and human performance will examine how well sweat patches the size of adhesive strips can detect levels of chemicals that may indicate bone loss.
