The Unlikely Buddha

NASA’s massive moon rocket will cost taxpayers billions more than projected NASA auditor warns Congress NASA’s auditor didn’t mince words when he told lawmakers Tuesday that the space agency’s lunar program is going to cost a ton more per mission than initial projections suggested a decade ago. “We found that the first four Artemis missions will each cost $4.1 billion per launch, a price tag that strikes us as unsustainable,” NASA Inspector General Paul Martin said. Artemis is the name of NASA’s lunar program. It represents a series of missions for which the agency is developing its Space Launch System rocket and Orion capsule Motley Fool article NASA's new $4 billion rocketship may not be long for this world. When Sir Richard Branson announced last year that his company, Virgin Galactic, would begin charging $450,000 a ticket for tourist flights to space and back, minds boggled at the price tag. But if $450,000 sounds like a lot of money to you, you'd better sit down be...

DIFFICULT CHOICE: Avoid Pain or Damage Kidneys? All non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) have been associated with the development of acute kidney injury Heavy or long-term use of some of these medicines, such as ibuprofen, naproxen, and higher dose aspirin, can cause chronic kidney disease known as chronic interstitial nephritis NSAIDs can cause two different forms of acute kidney injury. Haemodynamically mediated (eg, pre-renal injury and/or acute tubular necrosis). !? Immune mediated (eg, acute interstitial nephritis). Acute kidney injury represents a continuum of renal injury ranging from clinically asymptomatic changes in renal function to renal failure and death. Acute kidney injury is characterised by a rapid fall in glomerular filtration rate (GFR) over hours to days In the general population, the pooled odds ratio (OR) of AKI for current NSAID exposure was 1.73 (95%CI 1.44 to 2.07), with somewhat higher risk observed in older people (OR 2.51, 95%CI 1.52 to 2.68). In ...