Peer-reviewed research, commentary and history from across military and veterans’ health.
Major General Professor TJ Hodgetts CB CBE KHS DSc PhD MMEd MBA Chair, Committee of Chiefs of Military Medical Services NATO Headquarters, Boulevard Leopold III, Brussels, Belgium Common Military Medicine…
Melanoma is the most serious form of skin cancer. While classical risk factors are well described, the literature debates whether specific subgroups in the community have an increased risk of…
Jasper Frese, Tobias Barth, Matthias Münch, Johannes Keller, Matthias Johann, Christian Lutz and Arndt-Peter Schulz
With a growing frequency of extreme weather events, associated natural disasters1 and military conflicts, there is an increasing incidence of fractures requiring emergency treatment in the context of ‘damage control’…
Chelsey Simoni, Kaitlin Jane Cassidy, Joanne Costello, Lynn Blanchette, Jack Ratliff, Pollie-Bith Melander, Charulata Jindal, Yuk Ming Choi, Shane Kronsteadt and Jimmy Efird
Importance: Since 2001, 3.5 million United States service members deployed overseas in support of the post-9/11 Global War on Terror. While healthy and fit upon deployment, veterans have experienced many…
Obesity, alcohol use and hypertension place military service members at a greater risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD). The current study utilised the Defense Medical Epidemiology Database (DMED) data to…
Loud, hazardous noise exposure is ubiquitous and unavoidable in the Defence Force. As a result, it has the unfortunate but foreseeable effect of inducing early-onset hearing loss and/or tinnitus among…
Background: The widely-used Dental Anxiety Scale (DAS) has practical and theoretical limitations. The Index of Dental Anxiety and Fear (IDAF-4C) was developed to overcome these shortcomings but requires more psychometric…
Average 70kg D**khead: Motivational Lessons from an Ex-Army Special Forces Doctor By Dan Pronk. Fremantle: Vivid Publishing, 2019. ISBN 978-1925846744. Reviewed by Darren Cronshaw Warning: This review delves into trauma…
