military-medicine
2 stories tagged "military-medicine"
Drugs & FDA
U.S. Special Operators Carried French Freeze-Dried Plasma for 15 Years Before the FDA Licensed an American One
Allied militaries and U.S. commandos have relied on freeze-dried plasma for years. Washington licensed its own version this week, decades after an American doctor first invented the powder.
Infectious DiseaseThe Battlefield Medicine Revolution Was Built on Fake Wounds
A British prosthetics graduate is heading to NHS ambulance crews and the British military to build realistic trauma wounds, the artisan end of the twenty-year battlefield-medicine revolution that turned hemorrhage into a survivable injury.