Peer-reviewed research, commentary and history from across military and veterans’ health.
This Edition of the Journal of Military and Veterans Health has an array of papers considering operational and strategic issues confronting military health services in this region. Infectious disease has…
I am writing this message several days after the completion of another highly successful AMMA conference. Held in Hobart over the weekend 17-19 October, some 300 delegates attended, supported by…
Dear Sir I read with great interest a most commendable paper by LTCOL Kerry Clifford on Defence Health Service or Health Advice Agency: “An alternative reality to the Stevens Review”…
A molecular diagnostic laboratory was deployed overseas in response to a suspected emerging infectious disease in Sri Lanka in early 2008. The equipment and procedures used are established technology, well…
Background The First World War saw the evolution and development of three great surgical specialties: orthopaedic surgery, thoracic surgery and plastic/maxillofacial surgery. This last specialty came of age during the…
Australian Defence Force Garrison Health Support operate in a complex relationship between a geography-based National Support Area (NSA) health care model, in which most of the medical resources and staff…
Reprinted with the kind permission of the editors of the Seapower Centre – Australia The disaster which befell the Russian submarine Kursk in August 2000 caught the world’s attention and…
Dr Bruce James Cheffins died at the Fremantle Hospital on 14 March 2008, as the result of a vehicle accident. He left behind his wife Andrae, sons Peter and Richard,…
Sandy” Ferguson graduated in Medicine at Melbourne University in 1942 and following his residency at The Alfred Hospital was commissioned as a Surgeon Lieutenant in the Royal Australian Naval Reserve…
Fred Skeeles Victoria Park: Hesperian Press; 2008 (ISBN 978-0-85905-419-5: 151 pages) In September 2000, I reviewed ‘Proud Echo’ by Ronald McKie for Australian Military Medicine1. ‘Proud Echo’ narrated the history…
Edited by Paul M Arguin, Phyllis E Kozarsky and Christie Reed 2008 Edition (xiv) + 627 pp. Paperback, GBP19, ISBN 978-0-323-04885-9, Atlanta, USA, Elsevier Mosby, 2008 Travel medicine is an…
*4th edn, xxxviii + 441 pp, paperback (plastic cover) with illustrations, ISBN13: 978-007013628-1, Sydney, McGraw Hill, RRP: AUD150, 2007 (Reprinted 2008). In 2006-2007, the Australian Government estimated that there were…
