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Can Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Be Stopped Before it Begins?30 August 2010
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) remains one of the biggest threats to veterans who survive military deployment.
At NCIRE - the Veterans Health Research Institute, based at the UCSF-affiliated San Francisco VA Medical Center (VAMC) - researchers are exploring better ways to get former soldiers with PTSD into treatment and to find more effective treatments for them.
And a new pilot program developed by NCIRE researchers - all of them UCSF faculty - along with officers from the David Grant Medical Center at Travis Air Force Base, - aims to prevent PTSD from developing in the first place.
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Military Medicine Embraces Disney's Customer-Focus26 August 2010
Two years ago, still stinging from a 2007 scandal that rocked Walter Reed Army Medical Center to its foundation, the Army turned to a seemingly unlikely partner to instill throughout the institution a mindset of putting patients first.
Then-Col. Patricia D. Horoho, now a major general leading the Army Nurse Corps, recognized that the same principles that had made the Disney Corporation so successful could apply to the Walter Reed Health Care System she had stepped in to command, so she turned to the Disney Institute, the corporation's external training arm, for insights into how to transform the Army's health-care culture.
Mandatory sessions for every Walter Reed employee, led by Disney trainers, emphasized every person's role in providing patients and their families the best possible hospital experience.
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AUVSI: Transformers: Robots in disguise25 August 2010
Although the idea of using unmanned vehicles to remove wounded soldiers from the battlefield isn't likely to translate soon to an operational system, companies around the world are tapping into the market. And if the USA is lagging in coming to the battlefield extraction fold, a little funding could go a long way in an industry ripe to boom.
If the country is going to make a commitment to do this, it needs a comprehensively funded program to capitalize on a range of relatively low-level research and technology projects that have been under way for years in various government and industry labs, says Gary Gilbert, head of the Army Medical Research and Materiel Command's Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC) at Fort Detrick, Maryland.
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Face of Defense: Guardsman Takes First Jump With Prosthetic10 August 2010
Faced with a long recovery and the reality that he might never run, surf or return to his Special Forces team, Army Staff Sgt. Andre Murnane made the decision last year to have his right leg amputated below the knee after it was shattered by a roadside bomb that detonated in eastern Afghanistan.
'My dreams and ambitions didn't end that day. It simply started a new chapter,' the Maryland National Guard soldier said..
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Army Works to Expand Combat Stress Detection22 July 2010
Since 2003, the Army medical community has worked feverishly to establish processes that will improve the speed at which post-traumatic stress among military members is diagnosed, the Army's surgeon general said here today.
As many as 30 percent of troops redeploying from Iraq and Afghanistan could develop post-traumatic stress symptoms, and early detection is key to their treatment, Army Lt. Gen. Eric B. Schoomaker said in a roundtable discussion with reporters.
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Our Future Is Already in the Hands of Robots25 July 2010
The crowds, cheerleaders and mascots are not here for a football game or a basketball tournament.
This is a robotics competition called 'FIRST,' in which 10,000 kids from across the world descend on Atlanta and turn the Georgia Dome into a high-tech Super Bowl.
So (and this seems like an obvious question), what exactly is a robot?
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Unmanned helicopter missions a step closer7 July 2010
With Sanjiv Singh's help, perhaps a Black Hawk downed won't be so deadly.
Technology he developed with a team from Piasecki Aircraft Corp. in Delaware County enabled a full-sized helicopter last month to fly unmanned, choose a landing site in unknown territory and land itself.
The unprecedented feat means 'actual missions are not far away for unmanned helicopters,' said Singh, a Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute research professor.
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Army Cadet Creates First Ever Bionic Foot7 July 2010
The Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center at Fort Detrick is bringing the future into the present. For the first time in the world, a soldier is running at 8 miles per hour on a motorized foot-ankle prosthetic.
'It's been called the bionic foot, and to an extent, it works as a biological calf muscle,' says U.S. Army Cadet Elijah Bales.
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Army partnership gives bionic foot a leg up4 July 2010
The Army is developing advanced bionic feet, thanks to a partnership between Fort Detrick and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
The newest version of the Army's bionic foot helped a below-the-knee amputee run at 8 mph on a treadmill. That's the fastest ever for a robotic foot, and the West Point students working on the project have bigger plans for the next version of the foot.
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Army Using Telemedicine For Healthcare Delivery 30 June 2010
Wounded soldiers, pregnant women, and diabetes patients are receiving medical and appointment reminders to support their rehabilitation and treatment.
The U.S. Army is using mobile technology to transmit health tips, appointment reminders, and general announcements to the cell phones of more than 300 wounded soldiers. The mobile phone-based secure messaging system called mCare is one of several innovative wireless technology solutions that the Army is deploying to improve the health of its employees.
'Patients with mild traumatic brain injury are a target population for mCare,' said Col. Ronald Poropatich, deputy director of the Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center at the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command in Fort Detrick, Md.
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Army Lab Releases Software That Designs Real-Time PCR Signatures to ID Pathogens30 June 2010
The US Army's Biotechnology High Performance Computing Software Applications Institute has released a free computational pipeline for designing PCR-based pathogen-detection assays that it claims offers a number of advantages over currently available tools.
The Tool for PCR Signature Identification, or TOPSI, uses pairwise alignment to identify sequences that are common to multiple pathogenic target genomes. It then compares them to a database of non-target genomes in order to identify unique segments that can serve as PCR signatures.
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Medical software creator wins top government award30 June 2010
Jaques Reifman received one of the government's most prestigious awards this week for establishing an institute for computational biology.
Reifman, a nuclear engineer by trade, was asked almost nine years ago to work on a project for the Army Medical Command's Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center. Instead of completing his project and moving on, he wound up creating the Department of Defense Biotechnology High Performance Computing Software Applications Institute.
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Presidential Rank Awards Ceremony recognizes Dr. Jaques Reifman29 June 2010
The Meritorious Executive and Meritorious Senior Professional Rank Awards are given for sustained accomplishment. Meritorious Executives and Meritorious Senior Professionals receive a lumps-sum payment of 20 percent of their base pay, a silver pin, and a framed certificate signed by the President. Only 5 percent of career members may receive the award.
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Bionic feet for amputee cat25 June 2010
A cat that had its back feet severed by a combine harvester has been given two prosthetic limbs in a pioneering operation by a UK vet.
The new feet are custom-made implants that 'peg' the ankle to the foot. They are bioengineered to mimic the way deer antler bone grows through the skin.
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Departments Cooperate on Electronic Health Records14 June 2010
The nation may never become entirely 'paperless' in the way it documents patient medical records, but the military and veterans health care communities are on the right path and have the technologies in place to one day be very close, officials said last week.
'There was a time that we didn't have anything really electronic,' Army Maj. Frank Tucker, a physician's assistant and chief systems architect for the Military Health Systems' Joint Medical Information System, said at a June 11 electronic health records open house held here. 'But we've evolved from there with 100 percent deployment of our outpatient electronic records ... [and] are now on a path toward completing [inpatient electronic records] deployment.'
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Technology to Drive New, Better Ways to Educate the Force2 June 2010
Got a cell phone handy? It could be your ticket to keeping up with your professional development requirements.
That's just one concept being explored at Air Education and Training Command, the Air Force's training and education component. Like its counterparts in the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, AETC hopes to take advantage of new and emerging technologies to provide more efficient, effective educational opportunities to the force.
Most servicemembers are familiar with the concept of distance learning, with training delivered through the Internet or snail mail.
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West Point Cadets Achieve Motorized Running26 May 2010
West Point cadets have designed, built and tested the world's first lower-leg prosthesis to achieve motorized running. On April 23, filmed by the Discovery Channel, a Special Operations soldier who lost his lower leg in combat used the West Point-SpringActive Bionic Foot (WPBF) to run on a treadmill at 8 mph, the fastest any powered device has ever powered someone.
This computer controlled, motor-powered prosthesis generates the same push-off power and has the same joint motion as a natural foot and ankle. Current passive prosthetics have no ankle joint and rely on a spring, and thus cannot create the totally natural gait replicated by the bionic foot.
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Invention Awards: A Hearing Aid That Uses Bones to Conduct Sound21 May 2010
One day in 2006, stuck in bumper-to-bumper Bay Area traffic, Amir Abolfathi had a eureka moment. Formerly vice president of R&D for Invisalign, a company known for transparent dental braces, he had recently been chatting with a friend who was working on hearing aids. Abolfathi knew that bone was a good sound conductor. What if he could somehow make a removable oral hearing aid-one that could channel sound from wearers' teeth to their ear through the bones in their head?
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Women honored for sparking girls' interest in sciences10 May 2010
The third annual Reach for the Stars Awards Dinner on Thursday became the occasion to honor area community members who have for helped get girls and young women involved in the fields of math, science and technology.
The event was sponsored by the Greater Frederick Chapter of Women in Defense, an affiliate of the National Defense Industrial Association, based in Arlington, Va. The association has 15 chapters in the U.S. It was founded to provide professional development and networking opportunities in the defense industry, and to cultivate the advancement of future women leaders in the field.
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Magic 'Pixie Dust' made from pig bladders helps 'regrow' limbs of wounded soldiers5 May 2010
A powder nick-named 'Pixie Dust' is being used to save the limbs of war heroes who have been wounded in Afghanistan.
Surgeons have already used the dust to save several soldiers so badly mutilated that they were at risk of amputation.
Made from pig bladders it has the ability to help the human body grow new tissue to replace large areas of a leg or arm destroyed by blast damage.
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Cell phones a major Army health care tool29 April 2010
If Fort Detrick researchers are successful, one of the most important health care tools for soldiers could be their cell phones.
On Tuesday, Col. Ron Poropatich, deputy director for the Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, presented a portfolio of ongoing research projects involving cell phones to the Rotary Club of Carroll Creek.
One of the center's major projects is mCare, a cell phone messaging system that allows injured guardsmen and reservists recovering at home to provide daily feedback to their case managers. Case managers can program the system to send a daily text message asking how well the soldier slept or how severe his pain is. The soldier's response may trigger automatic follow-up questions.
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Avatar Project Seeks to Help Military Amputees28 April 2010
In the blockbuster movie 'Avatar,' Jake Sully, a former Marine who lost the use of both legs in combat, climbs into a vessel that magically restores his body when he assumes a new, 10-foot-tall avatar identity.
A new project being funded through the Advanced Army Medical Technology Initiative promises to bring some of that same technology to real-life wounded warriors to promote their rehabilitation and help to ease their reintegration into society.
The Amputee Virtual Environment Support Space project aims to create a virtual world in which military and veteran amputees can swap information and provide the peer support many lose when they leave military treatment facilities, explained Ashley Fisher, a program manager at the Army's Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center here.
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Better Prosthetics Coming for Wounded Warriors By Donna Miles American Forces Press Service22 April 2010
From developing a new microprocessor-controlled prosthetic leg to a non-chafing socket device, the Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center here is making big strides in advancing prosthetic science to improve wounded warriors' quality of life.
The center, tucked away at this western Maryland post, reaches out to a broad spectrum of researchers at universities, hospitals, and small businesses to promote next-generation, cutting-edge prosthetic technologies.
'The objective is to help amputees and traumatically wounded servicemembers return to the highest level of functionality that they are capable of,' said Troy Turner, who manages the center's advanced prosthetics and human performance portfolio.
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Seeing Tongue, Spray-On Skin, Transplanted Hand: Top Officer Encounters Military's Extreme Medicine Wing19 April 2010
First stop: the spray gun that shoots out skin cells. Next, the blind man who 'sees' by using his tongue. Finally, a shake of a marine's transplanted hand.
The nation's top military officer today took a look at some of the Pentagon's wildest medical research projects. But once the seemingly-sci-fi demonstrations at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center were over, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen voiced some concerns. The technologies and techniques seemed promising. But when would they be available, really, to help wounded veterans? And why did the corporal with the replacement hand have to rely on his girlfriend's mom to find out about his revolutionary treatment?
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Sensors to be used in Fort Gordon PTSD study17 April 2010
Whether motion sensors in a patient's room can help chart recovery from traumatic brain injury or post-traumatic stress disorder, and perhaps one day aid in diagnosis, is the focus of a study at Fort Gordon.
The fort's Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center and GE Global Research are conducting the $2.7 million study in conjunction with Medical College of Georgia's Center for Telehealth.
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GE, U.S. Army Join Forces To Assist Returning Soldiers From Iraq and Afghanistan14 April 2010
As part of GE's continuing efforts to support U.S. troops, GE Global Research, the technology development arm of the General Electric Company, is engaged in a two-year research study with the U.S. Army to evaluate soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan for traumatic brain injuries (TBI) and post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD). The study, which will take place at Fort Gordon, Georgia, was established through a $2.7 million Congressional initiative awarded and managed by the Department of Defenses' Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC) to support wounded soldiers. Researchers from the Dwight D Eisenhower Army Medical Center, led by Dr. Joseph Wood, Chief of Clinical Research, and the Center For Telehealth at the Medical College of Georgia, led by Dr Max Stachura, also are part of the project team.
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Inkjet-like device 'prints' cells right over burns9 April 2010
Inspired by a standard office inkjet printer, U.S. researchers have rigged up a device that can spray skin cells directly onto burn victims, quickly protecting and healing their wounds as an alternative to skin grafts.
They have mounted the device, which has so far only been tested on mice, in a frame that can be wheeled over a patient in a hospital bed, they reported Wednesday.
A laser can take a reading of the wound's size and shape so that a layer of healing skin cells can be precisely applied, said the team at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
'We literally print the cells directly onto the wound,' said student Kyle Binder, who helped design the device. 'We can put specific cells where they need to go.'
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Will that cancer spread? New technology can tell early on6 April 2010
Not all cancers are created equal. The debates currently raging as to when to screen for cancer revolve around a central issue: current diagnostic methods can determine whether an individual has breast cancer - or ovarian cancer or prostate cancer or colon cancer - but they cannot tell at an early stage whether it is a highly aggressive type of tumour that is likely to spread or not. New technology pioneered by Dr. Richard Caprioli of Vanderbilt University can analyze the protein molecules within cells to identify these differences - in minutes. Dr. Caprioli's approach could be in regular use within two to three years.
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Spray-on dressing delivers quick healing bond31 March 2010
Researchers are developing a new, sprayable liquid wound dressing technology that an injured warrior could apply one handed in a combat setting. The spray forms a tough hydrogel in seconds that conforms directly to the wound without sticking to it when removed.
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Virtual Worlds and the Military Amputee19 March 2010
Providing peer-to-peer support for the military amputee through virtual world technology is one of those natural 'of course' things where the use and the tech matches nearly perfectly. While I've written about this before, our project in partnership with Virtual Ability Inc. continues to be both a powerful demonstration of how virtual worlds like Second Life can provide support environments (whether for the military amputee, patient groups, or around specific interest areas) and a source of insight beyond the technology.
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WPI drives new research into Neuroprosthetics10 March 2010
Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute's Center for Neuroprosthetics are developing better prosthetic options for amputees - from engineering protein-based seals for implanted prosthetics to regenerating muscle tissue itself.
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Luke Skywalker's Hand and How Touch is Like Vision8 March 2010
Perhaps the most famous neuroprosthetic device in movie history shows up at the end of The Empire Strikes Back. In the final scene, Luke Skywalker is fitted for a new, robotic hand to replace the one so cruelly lopped off by (spoiler alert!) his father's lightsaber. To test out the new hand, Luke first flexes it a couple of times, then allows a droid to poke it in several places with a thin needle. That latter part is actually an important test, verifying the sensory ability of the prosthetic to mimic a real hand's response to pain or pressure.
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Utah Legislature: Bill would require insurers to cover prosthetics8 March 2010
Tami Stanley realizes if she hadn't been playing softball that day five years ago, and if she hadn't slid into third base at just the right angle and with enough force to shatter her shin bone, she would still have both legs and a lot fewer dealings with hospitals, insurance companies and a generally recalcitrant group of state lawmakers.
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Vets invigorated on Vail Mountain8 March 2010
Sgt. First Class Joe Kapacziewski's 2005 injury in Iraq might have gotten the best of his right leg, but it certainly didn't get the best of him.
Kapacziewski, 27, is in town this week with the Vail Veterans Program, the local nonprofit that teaches injured war veterans how to ski and snowboard. Kapacziewski tried the program shortly after his injury, when he and doctors were still trying to salvage his hurt leg. He tried a bi-ski, and had to sit down the whole time.
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DARPA Pushes for Fail-Proof Prosthetics8 March 2010
Better prosthetic devices have been a major Pentagon priority for years. Now, they want to make the devices longer-lasting, more reliable and better able to integrate directly with the human brain.
DARPA, the military's risk-taking research agency, is launching the next phase of its Revolutionizing Prosthetics program, which was started in 2000 with the goal of creating a fully-functioning, neurally-controlled human limb within five years.
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Energy-Recycling Artificial Foot7 March 2010
It should come as no great surprise that walking with a prosthetic limb is difficult. According to a newly published paper on prosthesis, walking with a prosthetic foot requires 23 percent more energy than walking naturally. This is because a natural gait returns and recycles energy in an efficient way, but a prosthetic limb wastes energy with each step. Scientists Art Kuo and Steve Collins have created an artificial foot that significantly reduces the amount of energy spent used with each step.
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Transplant Recipient Sees Potential for Wounded Warriors 3 March 2010
The recipient of the first hand transplant performed in a Defense Department facility said today she hopes her surgery provides hope for servicemembers wounded in combat.
Retired Air Force Master Sgt. Janet McWilliams is the 10th person, and the first woman, in the United States to receive a hand transplant. A team of military and civilian doctors performed the surgery Feb. 17 at Wilford Hall Medical Center here.
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FED TECH Magazine - Leading the Way an Health IT2 February 2010
Army researchers push for cutting-edge bedside technologies that can deliver real-time data and better clinical decision support.
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Innovative prosthetic ankle to mobilize amputees22 January 2010
DOUBLE CHECKING: Professor Thomas Sugar examines his device, a mechanical prosthetic ankle, as it is tested on an in-house treadmill. Coined SPARKy, short for Spring Ankle with Regenerative Kinetics, Sugar's device has been in development since early 2007.
ASU's progressing research with a prosthetic ankle will allow many amputees the opportunity to walk and eventually jog and run gracefully.
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Combat Vets Get Better Knees10 December 2009
Combat veterans who have lost one of their legs are getting new, improved prosthetic knees at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington.
The new device is called the X-2, and it contains a microprocessor that can adjust the range of motion and stiffness.
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Walter Reed Patients Test Next-generation Prosthesis10 December 2009
Wounded warriors at the Military Advanced Training Center at Walter Reed Army Medical Center here are testing a new microprocessor-controlled prosthetic knee.
The X2 microprocessor knee by Otto Bock HealthCare is the result of a medical research project funded in support of the Military Amputee Research Program.
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Patients at Walter Reed testing next-generation prosthesis10 December 2009
Several wounded warriors at Walter Reed Army Medical Center are testing a new microprocessor-controlled prosthetic knee.
The X2 microprocessor knee, the result of a medical research project, is being used by some amputees at Walter Reed's Military Advanced Training Center.
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Army: FDA-approved liquid bandage system promises quicker healing11 December 2009
A Fort Detrick research unit and a small biomaterials company in Georgia are preparing to take their FDA-approved liquid bandage and turn it into an all-in-one wound-dressing kit.
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Augmented Reality in a Contact Lens: A new generation of contact lenses built with very small circuits and LEDs promises bionic eyesight30 November 2009
The human eye is a perceptual powerhouse. It can see millions of colors, adjust easily to shifting light conditions, and transmit information to the brain at a rate exceeding that of a high-speed Internet connection.
But why stop there?
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New Sprayable Liquid Wound Dressing to Improve Care on the Battlefield27 November 2009
Researchers are developing a new, sprayable liquid wound dressing technology that an injured warrior could apply one handed in a combat setting. The spray forms a tough hydrogel in seconds that conforms directly to the wound without sticking to it when removed.
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Regenerative medicine no longer futuristic19 November 2009
Scientists continue to discover new ways to help the body restore itself in a discipline called regenerative medicine: a new ear and nose for a Soldier who lost his in war; a new esophagus for a patient with cancer; a postage stamp-sized patch of skin used to “spray on” a full chest of skin for a burn patient
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2009 Presidential Rank Awardees19 November 2009
The Presidential Rank Awards program is an individual award program granted by the United States Government to career Senior Executive Service (SES) members and Senior Career Employees within the OPM-allocated Senior-Level (SL) or Scientific-Professional (ST) community. The Presidential Rank Award honors high-performing senior career employees for "sustained extraordinary accomplishment." Executives from across Government are nominated by their agency heads, evaluated by citizen panels, and designated by the President. Winners of these awards are deemed to be strong leaders, professionals, or scientists who achieve results and consistently demonstrate strength, integrity, industry, and a relentless commitment to excellence in public service.
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Can Telemedicine Help Wounded Warriors With Recovery?12 November 2009
U.S. veterans with traumatic brain injuries who require medical care and constant follow-ups now have an extra resource to make their lives easier. Thanks to the U.S. Army's Mobile Care (mCare), a telehealth pilot program, veterans with traumatic brain injuries or other serious injuries can be medically monitored by using their cell phones.
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A Unique Government/Industry Partnership Advances Care for Traumatic Brain Injury12 November 2009
The conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have placed new demands on healthcare providers. Traumatic brain injuries have become one of the most prevalent injuries from these campaigns. The Department of Defense and Veterans Administration are sponsoring numerous research efforts to understand the nature of TBI for both prevention and rehabilitation. However, the incompatibility of the diverse medical imaging systems and software used has encumbered this work.
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Can Virtual Worlds Provide Support to Military Amputees? 2 November 2009
Virtual worlds can provide military amputees with an opportunity to enhance their overall quality of life, expedite their reintegration into society, and improve their physical and mental wellness. ADL Company Inc. (ADL) and Virtual Ability, Inc. (VAI) announced today the start of a project to establish best practices and protocols for the provision of on-line peer-to-peer support services to this community, with funding from the Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC) of the US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC).
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College of Engineering's improved robotic hand captures top award7 October 2009
College of Engineering's Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory (RoMeLa) has captured another top award for its updated innovative robotic hand that can automatically change its grasping force using compressed air.
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Massive shifts in medical technology ahead, study says7 September 2009
Over the decade ahead, the western industrial countries will significantly lose out against Asia when it comes to innovation power in the medical technologies, a study from German industry association VDE says.
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Inaugural Conference Well Received By Healthcare Professionals4 September 2009
Over 200 allied health professionals from twelve states attended CERMUSA's Rural Telehealth and Advanced Technologies Conference on September 4, 2009. The inaugural conference, which was held on the campus of Saint Francis University, featured expert speakers from across the country and presentations on issues concerning chronic care, Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)/Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and applied telehealth technologies. A total of 106 allied health professionals (including physicians, physician assistants, occupational therapists, physical therapists, registered nurses, registered nurse practitioners, and pharmacists) received up to six credit hours of continuing education by participating in the conference.
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Health Experts Attend First U.S. Africa Command Surgeon's Component Conference27 August 2009
The conference provided an opportunity for personnel from U.S. Africa Command (U.S. AFRICOM) and its component organizations as well as interagency personnel to discuss emerging health, science, and technology in Africa and reach a common understanding of the command's priorities with regard to African nations.
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Medical robot makes rounds at Texas Army hospital20 August 2009
Staff Sgt. Juan Amaris laid in intensive care recovering from life-threatening burns when he got a peculiar visit from his doctor. Dr. Kevin Chung - rather, a 5-foot-tall camouflage-clad robot with Chung's face on a monitor - rolled in to check on him.
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CNN's "Vital Signs" with Dr. Sanjay Gupta. The Army's RP-7 Robot20 August 2009
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Health | Mental Stress Training Is Planned for U.S. Soldiers18 August 2009
The training, the first of its kind in the military, is meant to improve performance in combat and head off the mental health problems, including depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and suicide, that plague about one-fifth of troops returning from Afghanistan and Iraq.
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X-rays at the front line15 August 2009
Mobile X-ray units were a true technical innovation in the past, but today these units are an essential element of the modern Army. Portable X-rays today are more robust so they can withstand adverse environment conditions and rough handling. They also range in size from “suitcase-sized” to standalone units on wheels. Over the years, the development of high-frequency generators has allowed for the development of smaller units, with some units weighing less than 100 pounds and folding neatly for storage and travel.
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NAEVR Hosts Key DOD Representatives in Standing Room-Only Session on Defense-Related Vision Research Opportunities at the ARVO Annual Meeting12 August 2009
On May 4 at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting in Fort Lauderdale, NAEVR hosted key Department of Defense (DOD) representatives who will be engaged in the management of defense-related vision research grants associated with the first-ever dedicated line item for Peer Reviewed Research-Vision, which was contained in Fiscal Year (FY) 2009 Defense appropriations and funded at $4 million.
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Experimental Hand Transplant Shows Promise30 July 2009
Last March, former Marine corporal Josh Maloney became the first Iraq war veteran and only the sixth American to receive a human hand, transplanted from an organ donor.
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Same blue dye in M&Ms linked to reducing spine injury28 July 2009
The same blue food dye found in M&Ms and Gatorade could be used to reduce damage caused by spine injuries, offering a better chance of recovery, according to new research.
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Military considers own version of Facebook, Twitter7 July 2009
The Canadian military is considering developing its own version of social-networking applications such as Facebook and Twitter to help soldiers communicate and improve teamwork in the increasingly networked environment of modern warfare.
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Experiment seeks to head off Type 1 diabetes2 July 2009
About 3 million Americans have Type 1 diabetes, where the body mistakenly attacks and destroys cells in the pancreas that produce insulin, the hormone crucial to converting blood sugar to energy. It's different than the far more common Type 2 diabetes that is usually linked to obesity, where the body produces insulin but gradually loses the ability to use it properly. Type 2 patients have more treatment options, including diet and exercise.
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How effective is nutritional supplementation for the prevention of stress fractures in female military recruits?15 July 2008
Intensive physical training can cause stress fractures in both osteoporotic patients and healthy, young adults. Female military recruits are especially vulnerable to such fractures, with a reported frequency of 5-15% during prolonged periods of intense physical activity.
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Telemedicine house helps older people stay safe and independent22 June 2009
Researchers are working on a “health house” so sophisticated that it will not only track everyday habits but also check weight and blood pressure and predict whether a person is at risk of a serious fall.
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For those of you with an interest in proteomics and genomics, particularly as they relate to cancer.8 June 2009
The Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia has launched the Institute for Personalized Medicine, which will use the center's sample repository and oncology programs along with sequencing to develop personalized chemotherapy approaches.
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A former TATRC Staff Member is honored with a HEALTH IT Award! 28 May 2009
Tommy J. Morris, acting director of Force Health Protection and Readiness Programs (FHP&RP), has been honored with the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) Bethesda, Md., Chapter Health Information Systems Award for his work in building the enterprise architecture for a unified electronic health system that will enable military health care providers to efficiently and effectively deliver and document the best quality health care.
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Fort Detrick scientist is selected to receive the Arthur S. Flemming Award9 April 2009
Dr. Reifman was selected for this award because of his achievements in applied science, engineering and mathematics while serving as the director of two cutting-edge research organizations: U.S. Army Medical Research & Materiel Command bioinformatics cell and the Department of Defense Biotechnology High Performance Computing Software Applications Institute for Force Health Protection, which he created.
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Intel, GE Form Health-Care Alliance2 April 2009
Intel Corp. and General Electric Co. announced an alliance to develop and sell technology to help care for the elderly and chronically ill in their homes.
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Army Medicine: Untested in Battle29 March 2009
The U.S. Army has quietly altered or abandoned some of its more experimental medical treatments for troops injured in combat, as advances it once hailed as groundbreaking are foundlargely ineffective or perhaps even dangerous.
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Pentagon Honors Medics Killed So Far In Wars11 March 2009
Combat medic Christopher Holland was shot to death in Iraq while tending the wounds of another soldier. Paul Nakamura was killed when his ambulance was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade.
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A Robomedic for the Battlefield3 February 2009
The following article includes reference to our TATRC funded CMU project to develop the serpentine arm robotic technology for/with LSTAT.
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New Technology to aid Combat Medics29 January 2009
A cutting-edge technology may soon help save the lives of soldiers wounded in Iraq or Afghanistan. The pilot project is basically setting up a camera so doctors in the U.S. can walk medics through life-saving procedures when a soldier is wounded.
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Advanced Technologies & Wireless Telecommunications Enhance Care & Medical Training at the Ryder Trauma Center in Miami31 December 1969
For the past year, WLIRC has been working with the United States Army's Trauma Training Center, co-located at Ryder, to study the feasibility of using the robot to support trauma care. This new collaborative effort will build on previous research by demonstrating how trauma specialists can use wireless broadband to remotely operate the robot.
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