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Thursday, Sept. 19, 1974
Dr. Charles D. Wood
Shreveport
Scientist
Is Honored
A Shreveport scientist has
been honored by the National
Aeronautics and Space Ad-ministration
(NASA) for his
research to develop an an-timotion
sickness medicine
for astronauts.
Dr. Charles D. Wood,
professor of pharmacology
and therapeutics at Louisiana
State University School of
Medicine at Shreveport,
received the achievement
award from NASA.
Accompanying the award
was a medallion that is from
Skylab materials, Dr. Wood
said.
Dr. Wood has been re-searching
antimotion sick-ness
drugs under the NASA
program for several years.
The drug, scopolamine -
dexedrine, which he helped
develop was used on the
Apollo 11 flight — the first
moon landing — and in all
space flights since then, in-cluding
the Skylab series.
The stimulent in dexedrine
offset the drowsiness caused
by the scopolamine, he noted.
The drug was first tested at
sea and in a rotation room.
Dr. Wood worked at Pen-sacola,
Fla., with the U.S.
Navy under a NASA grant for
two years before joining the
medical school staff here.
Since coming to the medical
school he has gone back to
Pensacola almost every sum-mer
for additional research
and has had about 40 articles
on the subject published.
The antimotion sickness
medicine is still "pretty much
exclusive" to the space
program, but some drug com-panies
are interested in it, he
said.
Before the final Skylab
flight, Dr. Wood was one of
nine scientists called to
Washington from the United
States and Canada to make
recommendations on an-timotion
sickness.
The group recommended
that the astronauts take an-timotion
sickness medicine on
a regular schedule, starting
before the flight.
Two of the men took the
scopolamine - dexedrine and
one took a newer preparation
that was being tested. The
two taking the scopolamine -
dexedrine were protected
from nausea, and the other
astronaut did not take the
second dose on schedule and
became ill, Dr. Wood said.
He recently returned from a
meeting in Houston, Tex.,
where medical results from
the Skylab mission were
presented.
Dr. Wood will continue his
work on antimotion sickness,
he said, and hopes to have a
medicine that will help in the
space shuttle program being
planned.
The achievement award
was "in appreciation of
dedicated service to the
nation as a member of the
Skylab Team which extended
man's knowledge and
capabilities in space."
Object Description
| Title | Shreveport Scientist is Honored |
| Subject |
Wood, Charles D. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Awards Motion Sickness |
| Notes | Photo of Dr. Charles D. Wood |
| Date | 1974-09-19 |
| Identifier | See reference URL on the navigation bar. |
| Source | Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport Medical Library (http://lib.sh.lsuhsc.edu) |
| Language | en |
| Relation | http://www.louisianadigitallibrary.org/cdm4/index_LSUHSCS_NPC.php?CISOROOT=/LSUHSCS_NPC |
| Coverage-Spatial | Shreveport (Caddo, La.) |
| Rights | Physical rights are retained by Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws. |
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