The menstrual cycle is an integral component of life for most women, and it exerts its influence for a major portion of their lives. Much research has been directed to…

TRAINING MILITARY PERSONNEL to manage military casualties is difficult. Within the Australian Defence Force (ADF), experience of major trauma is limited to those who work routinely in the emergency and…

The use of Biken Japanese encephalitis (JE) vaccine (JE-Vax) by the Australian Defence Force (ADF) for service personnel deploying to JE endemic areas has consumed a significant proportion of the…

SIX AUSTRALIAN BATTALIONS have served in East Timor since the beginning of the International Force in East Timor (InterFET) and transition to the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor…

Many who practice outside major centres are confronted with inescapable decisions with potential neurosurgical overtones. The final operative decision itself- to operate off not – has to be made in…

Introductory Note on Sources In the absence of access to original material (not to mention a lack of knowledge of Latin and Middle English), this article is based on information…

THIS IS A REPORT OF A CASE OF MALARIA in which the patient presumably inadvertently partially treated an undiagnosed episode of malaria before presenting with a probable relapse of the…

WHAT CAN YOU SAY to those who say that you can "cook up" biological warfare agents in the kitchen and kill thousands? Try positioning this account of the nascent British…

The emergence of military medicine was very late during mankind's long history of war-like activities. In the valley of the River Neander, near Dusseldorf in Germany, a species of man…