Peer-reviewed research, commentary and history from across military and veterans’ health.
JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS QE) virus causes an endemic and epidemic zoonotic disease with a simple life cycle. The typical reservoir is pigs, though horses and dogs were also found to have…
'We shot them under rule .303>1 ABSTRACT THE .303 MILITARY ROUND has been around for over 100 years and went from a round nose projectile full metal jacket, Mks I…
Col. Yaron Bar-Dayan, Ruben M. Jacubovich, Maj. Michal Zilberberg MoccH, Col. jacob Haviv MD, A. Barzilay, A. Goldberg, E. Onn, Y. Levy, Col. Nehemia Yoffe and Col. Liav Goldstein
Background: Scleroderma is a connective tissue disease, which has been associated with different occupational exposures. Methods: We present a case report of a patient who developed localised scleroderma after occupational…
DEAR EDITOR, In her review article "Outpatient Based Injury Management versus Inpatient Rehabilitation"1, Captain Tilbrook puts forward a case for Outpatient based Rehabilitation with strong ties to the workplace, which…
D. Mankuta, A. Goldberg, P. Benedek, Y. Wolf, A. Rachstein, A. FInestone, E. Onn, Y. Levy and Col. Yaron Bar-Dayan
AN ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCE (IDF) field hospital with an integral obstetrics department was functioning in the city of Adapazari from day 4 to day 14 after the 1999 earthquake disaster…
MORE THAN 2500 TRAINED AUSTRALIAN ARMY NURSES served overseas during World War I. Many were called upon to act outside their normal nursing practice and one new area was that…
THIS PAPER WILL DEMONSTRATE how military medical principles have been effectively applied to organising and training medical teams in the civilian setting of the St. John Ambulance, and how the…
AS WE GET THIS ISSUE TO PRINT, l am integrally involved with reviewing Disaster Preparedness and Management Plans for the WA Department of Health. Events like the Bali bombing in…
Fajardo M, et al. Varicella Susceptibility and Validity of History among U.S. Coast Guard Recruits: An Outbreak-Based Study. Mil Med 2003;168(5): 404-407. During a varicella outbreak among U.S. Coast Guard…
BEN SHEPHARD WAS BORN IN 1948 and read History at Oxford University. He made numerous historical and scientific documentaries, including The World at War and The Nuclear Age, the former…
PERMETHRIN-IMPREGNATION OF DISRUPTIVE PATTERN COMBAT UNIFORMS (DPCU) is an integral component of personal protective measures adopted by Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel when operating in an environment with endemic vector-borne…
