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Editorial – AMMA Conference – 2017

This issue is primarily focused on the abstracts for the coming Australasian Military Medicine Conference to be held in Brisbane in October 2017. The abstracts reflect a very diverse and…

Editorial – Medicinal Cannabis

Medicinal cannabis In February 2016, the Commonwealth Government amended the Narcotic Drugs Act 1967 to allow cultivation of cannabis and manufacture of cannabis-based products (CBP) for research and medical purposes.…

Editorial – Seventy-five years on

Seventy-five years on On 19 February 1942, Darwin was bombed in the largest single attack by Japan on Australia. The first of more than 100 air raids on Australia, which…

The Battle of the Sunda Strait

On 28th February 1942, HMAS PERTH, a light cruiser, and USS HOUSTON, a heavy cruiser, having survived the Battle of the Java Sea the previous day, stopped briefly in Tanjung…

Editoral

Back in early June, the Navy Health Reserve was asked to provide some health staff for an Army exercise, Exercise Hamel, to be held at the end of June 2016.…

Editorial Board

Scott Kitchener This has been a year of change for the Journal. After a long and colourful career. CAPT Jenny Graham has departed from active service with the ADF and…

Editorial – A Message from the Surgeon General Australian Defence Force

A Message from the Surgeon General Australian Defence Force It is with great pleasure that I note the launch of the AMMA Newsletter. The publication of the Newsletter marks another…

History Lessons Learned

The theme of this edition of JMVH is historical; the raison d’être for such an edition is the belief that there are lessons for today from the experiences of yesterday.…

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Epidemiology and prevention of tropical diseases of military importance: a special issue

Historically, tropical diseases have remained a significant threat to military operations in tropical zones,1-4 especially in the developing country environment, which are often areas characterized by extremes of poverty, environment,…

Florence Nightingale

This year, 2010, is the Centenary of the death of Florence Nightingale. She died in 1910, at the age of 90, which was a notable age to reach at that…