Peer-reviewed research, commentary and history from across military and veterans’ health.
The standard treatment of nerve agent poisoning is pretreatment with the carbamate pyridostigmine, and post-exposure therapy with atropine, an oxime (PAM, toxogonin or HI-6) and diazepam. Some of the literature…
The aim of the article is to discuss the importance of providing adequate health advice and support to troops deploying within Australia away from base areas. This was developed through…
The domain of military medicine has traditionally encompassed the disciplines of high-energy trauma management, tropical medicine, the management of the epidemic diseases of the Army and Navy and the ethos…
Bioterrorism, the deliberate use of biological weapons by a terrorist group, has become a major concern for Australian medical, government and military agencies over the past two to three years.…
“Japanese encephalitis (JE), the “Plague of the Orient”, is the most important mosquito-borne viral encephalitis in Asia.” INTRODUCTION Japanese encephalitis is one of a number of arthropod borne viruses (arboviruses)…
Hearder R. Battlefield legacies: The Australian collection of WW1 pathological specimens. Aust Mil Med 1999;. Rosalind Hearder BA (Hons) is a military medical historian who is currently doing her PhD…
