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The Aerospace Medicine Association Conference. 11-15 May 1197, Chicago

A possibly newly reported aviation-related syndrome was described by Rich Williams, an Aerospace Medicine resident. It has long been known among civilian aerobatic performers that exposure to large amounts of…

How purple will be the white coat?

The forces of change impacting on the Australian Defence Force, and in particular the Defence Health Service, are making themselves felt. These changes are significant, and will produce a significant…

The neurophysiologic aspects of G-induced loss of consciousness (G-LOC)

The principal problem faced by the human cardiovascular system when exposed to a force environment greater than +1 Gz in magnitude is that the hydrostatic effects of the applied acceleration…

Book Reviews – Vic Jeffery

Few Survived. A History of Submarine Disasters Edwin Gray Since the first submarines of the 18th century through to 1995, some 1761 submarines were lost world wide. 313 by accident…

6th Australian Military Medicine Association Conference – Melbourne, 1997

The sixth AMMA Conference was held at the Hotel Sofitel in Melbourne over the weekend of the 29th to 31st August 1997. There were approximately 120 registrants, which, disappointingly, was…

Book Reviews – Andrew Robertson

SSN- Strategies of Submarine Warfare Tom Clancy Harper Collins: London 1996 This is a fiction work by Tom Clancy based on 'SSN'. a CD-ROM game by Simon and Schuster Interactive.…

1997 Military Medical Symposium

The 1997 Military Medicine Symposium was held at the Marriott Hotel, Sydney, on the weekend of 15 and 16 November. Jointly hosted by the Director Health Services – NSW, COL…

Artificial intelligence and expert systems – their application to military medicine

In the early 1950s, the British mathematician Alan Turing argued that for a computer to be described as intelligent it must be able to deceive a human into believing that…

A Bibliography of Australian Doctors at War

Review b Rus Schedlich Stephen Due, the Librarian at Geelong Hospital, has kindly donated a copy of his work “A Bibliography of Australian Doctors at War” to the Association’s library.…

Abstract from the Literature

Gupta L, Ward J, Hayward RSA. Future directions for clinical practice guidelines: Needs, lead agencies and potential dissemination strategies identified by Australian general practitioners. ANZ J Pub Health 1997; 21(5):…