Gunalp Uzun1, Senol Yildiz1† & Samil Aktas2 †Author for correspondence 1Gulhane Military Medical Academy Haydarpasa Teaching Hospital, Department of Underwater and Hyperbaric Medicine, 34668 Uskudar, Istanbul, Turkey Tel.: +90 216 542 2738 Fax: +90 216 412 5918 Email: senoyildiz@ yahoo.com 2Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Department of Underwater and Hyperbaric Medicine, Ista...

I nternational Journal of Toxicology Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription i formation: htto ://www. informaworld.com/smoo/title-content=t7 1 3926068 Detrimental Effects of N-Acetylcysteine Plus Desferoxamine Combination i an Experimental Nephrotic Syndrome Model F. Bu lucua; C.Okten l iD ; L . Kenarc ; B . Koca; R. Oca la ; N. Karadurmusa; V . Inal a; L. Yama...

Email: [email protected] Introduction Details of all UK military deaths on operations are collected from clinical notes, post mortem reports and incident reports and are held on the UK Joint Theatre Trauma Registry, maintained by the Academic Department of Military Emergency Medicine (ADMEM) at the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine (RCDM). Analysis of these deaths is used to determine ...

Neil M Renwick1, Lev G Goldfarb2*, Nyamkhishig Sambuughin3, Jenny E Hinshaw4, Camilo Toro5 and Fyodor A Platonov6 1Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, Queen1s University, Kingston General Hospital, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada 2National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stoke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA 3Consortium for Health and Military Performanc...

Department of Community, Health Wright State University School of Medicine, Dayton, Ohio, USA;National Institutes of Health Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition, NIDDK, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, Division of Health Examination Statistics, Hyattsville, Maryland, USA; Obesity Research Center, St Lukes-Rooseve...

OBJECTIVES To investigate various cases of death caused by electrical injuries among Turkish military personnel. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed fatality cases of military personnel between 1994 and 2013 at the Department of Forensic Medicine, Gulhane Military Medical Academy, School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey, the only forensic medicine center for the Turkish Armed Forces. Medical recor...

Perhaps more than any other disease, malaria serves as a potent symbol of the struggle between humankind and the natural world. Scientific and technical advances-from Ross's identification of the malaria vector to the application of DDT during the Second World War-have promised much but have so far failed to provide any lasting solution to the devastation caused by the disease. Yet at the close...

1Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, USA 2Chief, Department of Resuscitative Medicine, UWH-A, Division of Military Casualty Research, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, USA 3Professor, Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Anesthesiology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, USA 4...

Masami Akai, Meigen Liu, Zong-Yao Wu and Tiecheng Guo From the Department of Rehabilitation for Movement Functions, Research Institute, National Rehabilitation Center, Tokorozawa, Japan, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Southwest Hospital, The Third Military Medical University, Chongqing,...

This article explores the decisive role of British military medicine in shaping official approaches to the 1918 influenza pandemic. It contends that British approaches were defined through a system of military pathology, which had been established by the War Office as part of the mobilization of medicine for the First World War. Relying on the bacteriological laboratory for the identification a...