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PROGRESS IN THE LIFE SCIENCES will be driving scientific progress in the 21st Century the way physics did for the 20th Century. The new revolution in Biotechnology indicates that the…
The Australian Policy Handbook, by Peter Bridgman and Glyn Davis, was "designed for those who become embroiled in the sometimes turbulent world of public policy…".1 Given the substantial changes to…
DURING SURGICAL PROCEDURES using laser or electrosurgical units, the thermal destruction of tissue creates a smoke byproduct. Research study has indicated that this smoke plume contains toxic gases and vapours.…
AETIOLOGY ANTHRAX IS CAUSED BY the microorganism Bacillus anthracis, a large Gram-positive rod-shaped bacterium which is commonly found singly or in pairs. The organism is capsulated in clinical specimens, but…
ANOTHER INTERESTING FORTNIGHT has come to an end, as our ADF ships and personnel pre-deploy to the Gulf. One of the key issues over this period has been the Australian…
THE AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCE (ADF) has had an Aeromedical Evacuation (AME) capability in Dili, East Timor supporting INTERFET and UNTAET since September 1999. This unit, the Aeromedical Staging Facility (ASF),…
THIS IS THE FIRST OF A TWO-PART ARTICLE on English naval medicine during the Tudor period, from the end of the Wars of the Roses in 1485 until the death…
Neri DF, et al. Controlled breaks as a fatigue countermeasure on the flight deck. Aviat Space Environ Med 2002; 73(7): 654-664. BACKGROUND A MAJOR CHALLENGE FOR FLIGHT CREWS is the…
A FEW YEARS AGO, a French farmer discovered the body of an Australian soldier – namely Private Bosisto – near a feature called 'the windmill' close to a village of…
THE USE OF BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS has been around since before the siege of Kaffa in 1346 when the Tartars catapulted plague infected bodies over the ramparts. The potential for terrorists…
