NASA Want to Cure Your Car Sickness

It's working on a nasal spray for motion sickness
By John Johnson,  Newser Staff
Posted Oct 13, 2012 9:54 AM CDT
NASA Want to Cure Your Car Sickness
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Soon you'll be able to fight motion sickness just like an astronaut. NASA is teaming up with pharmaceutical company Epiomed Therapeutics to develop and market a nasal spray for queasy travelers, reports Scientific American. The spacy agency is something of an expert on the subject, and it's found that a drug based on the ingredient scopolamine does the trick. Epiomed will work on turning it into a fast-acting spray, though the drug will have to pass through all the usual FDA hoops before hitting the market. (More NASA stories.)

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