When Defense Department officials noted several years ago that 50 percent of hepatitis cases in developing countries were caused by the hepatitis E virus, they knew the disease would present a serious health risk for military members who deployed to areas where the disease was prevalent, according to the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity.
Slipper II
The number of soldiers bleeding to death on the battlefield could be significantly reduced if a new hemostatic dressing proves effective in clinical trials. “The estimates are that in Vietnam we could have saved anywhere from 3,000 to 7,000 lives if we would have had a dressing like this on the battlefield,” said Deputy commander of U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity
One handed Tourniquet
Three years ago a research and development effort among three U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command organizations set out to create a tourniquet that a wounded soldier could use with one hand.
The Army Family
Justin
knew something about struggles. He spent months battling liver cancer,
which spread and wracked his small body.
10-year-old Justin enlisted in the Army and was promoted at the Pentagon,
climbed around inside an opulent limousine on his way to Fort Belvoir
where he shot an M-16 with night-vision goggles and commanded an M-111
personnel carrier. Near day's end, the Army whisked him over Washington
aboard a Blackhawk in a last-minute, unscheduled flight.
Instead of seeing Disney World, Justin had asked to join the Army family.
Losing valuable Training Days
Two
viruses plaguing military training centers will once again meet their
match when the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command and Barr
Pharmaceuticals remanufacture their vaccines.
Adenoviruses type 4 and 7 produce symptoms like the flu but can cause
military recruits to lose valuable training days while they recuperate
from symptoms such as sore throat, fever, cough, runny nose, headache
and chest pain.