Malaria remains a military medical problem

Resistance remains a problem in treatment failure

INTRODUCTION Proven resistance against HIV drugs, either by phenotyping or genotyping is a rare event in clinical trials. The overall assumption of drug resistance disappearing is additionally driven by the recommendations to screen for transmitted drug resistance, leading to large numbers of examinations with relatively low rates of resistance. Goal of our analysis was to assess if drug resist...

Military medical revolution: military trauma system.

T development and advancement of trauma care has shown stepwise improvements for centuries owing to the interrelationship of civilian and military medical systems. With respect to trauma systems, the sophisticated civilian trauma system in the United States was born directly out of the successes and lessons learned from the Vietnam War. The American College of Surgeons (ACS) took the lead in ad...

Military Medical Evacuation

Military Medical Journals

Our young but flourishing contemporary the Journal of the Association of Military Sur geons, U. &, lias an interesting article (May p 633) on Military Medical Journals of the present day which we propose to here synopsise. As the article we quote from points out, military medical journalism was not slow to present itself even in the infancy of periodical publication, and in fact at the present ...

Why military medical research?

The challenging circumstances that confronted military caregivers during the years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq established the imperative for military-oriented medical research. The burden of injury and illness resulting from this long period of combat operations, and the unique clinical and logistical considerations it engendered provide a compelling rationale for requirement-driven, well-c...