Peer-reviewed research, commentary and history from across military and veterans’ health.
As I write this note, a Four Corners program on post-traumatic stress disorder in the ADF has gone to air. Although not wanting to comment on the detail or veracity…
Once again JMVH demonstrates the diversity of military medical practice with an array of papers all relevant to those working in health service support to Defence Forces. With somewhat conflicted…
This report outlines the management of a soldier serving in the Middle East who suffered a perineal injury while on out of theatre leave. He presented to a medical officer…
Rear Admiral Graeme Shirtley RFD RANR MB BS (NSW), DDR (Syd), FRANZCR Surgeon General Australian Defence Force 09 May 2005 – 03 July 2008. Patron of the Australian Military Medicine…
Tri-service post-graduate vocational education in Medicine has not previously been available in the Australian Defence Force (ADF). Introduction to Military Medicine (IMM), originally designed as an introduction to the practice…
In February 2007, there was an outbreak of gastroenteritis in a group of Townsville-based Australian Regular Army personnel visiting Gallipoli Barracks in Brisbane, Queensland. Of the 23 patients hospitalised, the…
The aviation and underwater environments both present unique demands on human physiology. Humans are well adapted to live on land, usually at low altitudes. With the invention of self contained…
John Berth-Jones, Eunice Tan and Howard I Maibach* *1st edition 2004, reprinted 2006, 94 pages, paperback with illustrations, ISBN 978-1-90374-32-2. Health Press Limited. Oxford, UK. RRP $44.00 Eczema is a…
Edited by Stephen Gillan, Jan Yates and Padmanabhan Badrinath *1st edn. xiii +335 pp, paperback with illustrations and CD, ISBN 978-0-521-68983-0. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, RRP AUD97.00, 2007 Public health…
