Last month the Obama Administration unveiled a research project it hopes Congress will fund to the tune of $100 million in Fiscal 2014. The so-called BRAIN Initiative (Brain Research through …
A decade of combat in Southwest Asia has placed new and expanded requirements on the military medical community. As is common with most wars, “signature” injuries emerge – in this …
In the past few years, increased funding and effort have gone into pushing the boundaries of the possible, of going beyond even the most advanced traditional prosthetics to technologies that …
Electronic health records (EHRs) have become a primary tool in improving the delivery of health care to military service members and veterans in the past decade. Now, from the moment …
The Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine (AFIRM) is yet another major medical outgrowth of the decade-long war in Southwest Asia. It was created by the U.S. Army Medical Research …
It would be hard to find a military record more impressive than that of Mauro Mujica-Parodi III. Commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps after graduating from Georgetown …
By January of 2011, the parking lots at the 285-bed VA Medical Center in Tucson, Ariz. – the flagship of a Southern Arizona VA Health Care System that serves more …
Mission: Protect the warfighter from emerging and genetically engineered biological threats by providing a novel response capability, from identification of pathogens to the development of medical countermeasures.
Vision: To protect …
War has been described as representing the absolute worst in humanity. At the same time, throughout history, it has been the engine for some of the most beneficial advances in …
Rapid advances in technology during the past two decades have combined with Defense Department and Veterans Affairs efforts to modernize health care delivery to a point where both are now …
