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Centenary of the Air Force The medical service of the Royal Australian Air Force started in a small hut that served as the sick-quarters at Point Cook, Victoria. Its first doctor was Squadron Leader Arthur Poole Lawrence MC, a Melbourne graduate who had served with the Australian Army Medical Corps in France. Lawrence made the… Read more »
K Kerr, M Romaniuk, S McLeay, S Walker, J Henderson, A Khoo Abstract Background Australian veterans have an increased risk of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Guilt is a common post-trauma reaction; however, research in this area is limited. Purpose This study aimed to explore the relationship between guilt, PTSD severity, alcohol use, anger, history of… Read more »
N Westphalen Introduction This article follows previous papers by the author, regarding occupational and environmental medicine in the ADF.1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 These papers, as well as a recent Productivity Commission inquiry,10 describe why high workplace illness and injury rates confirm the need to improve the management of hazards associated with ADF workplaces, with better emphasis on prevention. To this… Read more »
T J Watt, E James Kehoe Abstract Arts-based activities are increasingly being offered to current and former military members as an adjunct to their established therapeutic interventions. Individuals who undertake arts-based activities have shown reductions in both anxiety and depressive symptoms. However, little is known about the specific mechanisms engaged by these activities or the… Read more »
B Short Abstract Begun in 1940 during World War II, the research into natural penicillin later involved British, United States and Australian military forces in carrying out the necessary extensive field testing. Penicillin-G and penicillin-V are the two natural penicillins whose chemical structures were ultimately uncovered in the US and Britain, respectively. The difficulties in… Read more »
H Wang, X Liang, K Bridle, D Crawford Abstract Background: Self-reported physical comorbidities are common among combat veterans. Until now, it has been unclear what underlying risk factors were associated with these self-reported health disorders. Purpose: This study aimed to compare self-reporting and objective clinical investigations of liver disorders in a large group of Australian… Read more »
T Bullman, A Schneiderman Introduction Much of the research on the post-deployment mortality of veterans who deployed as part of Operations Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom and New Dawn (OEF/OIF/OND) has focused on the risk of suicide among returning veterans.1-2 To date, mortality studies of OEF/OIF/OND veterans have not included analysis of specific disease-related mortality. While… Read more »
Re-Print Stephenson Vol 9 No 1 E Stephenson2 On 16 December 1943, I was sitting at the Navigator’s seat in a very noisy Lancaster bomber over Berlin when something occurred that changed the pattern of my life. We had just dropped 13,000 pounds of bombs… a 4,000 pound “cookie” plus incendiaries and we were stooging… Read more »
Originally published: 13 May 2014 by Sydney Local Health District, NSW Government As an 18-year-old, when Norton Duckmanton watched his friend fatally crash a Mosquito dive bomber during Pacific War training he couldn’t have known that the moment would define his 66-year career in dentistry. Though he was unable to cry at the military funeral,… Read more »
