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Scouring the information super airways can sometimes be a tough, if educational, task for the Aero-News staff... but it also allows us to check out some truly neat and exciting sites, so it's not that bad a gig. On any given day, we may check dozens (and often hundreds) of different sources for story ideas, and facts confirmation. And, as is the nature of our business, much of this is done on the Internet.

The ANN gang decided we probably shouldn't keep some of the neat sites, info resources, and organizations we've discovered to ourselves... so we decided to bring you Aero-Linx. These are the sites that WE check out -- when we need added perspective, a new spin on a day's topic... or just want to escape into cyber-aero-space for awhile.

Look for some of our favorite sites, coming each day to ANN via Aero-Linx. Suggestions for future Aero-Linx segments are always welcome, as well.

Aero Linx: Astronaut's Blood Clot Treated By Doctors On Earth

From Fox News, scientists have described how, for the first time, a space station astronaut’s blood clot was successfully treated by doctors more than 200 miles away on Earth.

The incident is revealed in a paper entitled “Venous Thrombosis during Spaceflight,” published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The research could have major implications for long-term space missions, particularly as the U.S. plans a return to the Moon and future missions to Mars.

FMI: www.foxnews.com/science/space-station-astronauts-blood-clot-treated-doctors-on-earth