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Intrepid Center Provides New Level of Warfighter Care |
When it officially opened its doors in June, the National Intrepid Center of Excellence at the National Naval Medical Center here set out to provide a new level of care for warfighters suffering traumatic brain injuries and psychological disorders.
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December 17, 2010 |
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Partners Build High-tech Hands for Wounded Warriors |
Top scientists and technologists are working with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to give arms and hands back to warriors who lose them in battle.
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December 15, 2010 |
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Doctors Use Acupuncture as Newest Battlefield Tool |
J.D. Nichols, a retired Navy flight officer and cryptologist, limped into the Air Force Acupuncture Center at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland early yesterday morning, leaning heavily on a cane.
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December 10, 2010 |
Gaming Console Supercomputer Can Read, Correct Input |
Video games have advanced by leaps and bounds in the past few years. What once was a big black box with a bad video version of ping-pong is now a sleek, motion-capturing, high-resolution computer system capable of networking around the world.
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December 3, 2010 |
Researchers Aim to Bring Smart Phones to Warfighters |
Army researchers are working to develop smart-phone technology to aid warfighters in tactical environments.
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December 2, 2010 |
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HIV Research Program Has Global Reach |
In its effort to protect troops everywhere from HIV infection, the U.S. Military HIV Research Program in Rockville, Md., also works to reduce the disease's global impact through work performed in regions heavily impacted by the virus.
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December 1, 2010 |
Command Provides Valuable Technology to Warfighters |
An Army organization is transforming conceptual science into valuable capabilities for warfighters.
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November 30, 2010 |
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Bidens Celebrate Thanksgiving with Wounded Warriors |
Nine wounded warriors joined Vice President Joe Biden and his wife Dr. Jill Biden for a Thanksgiving dinner last night in their home at the U.S. Naval Observatory here.
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November 23, 2010 |
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Mobile phones become tools of health promotion |
When District-based Voxiva released a free text message service in February sending prenatal health advice to expectant mothers, the technology firm hoped it would be a successful example of mobile health in the United States.
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November 15, 2010 |
DARPA Effort Speeds Biothreat Response |
Spurred by the 21st century's first flu pandemic, the Defense Department has developed new, faster ways to make vaccines that could save lives around the world.
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November 2, 2010 |
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Smart Phone App Helps Track Post-Deployment Emotional Health |
The Department of Defense announced today the release of a free smart phone mobile application that will make it easier for servicemembers and veterans to track their emotional health after deployments.
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October 25, 2010 |
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Immersive Training Builds Small-Unit Decision-Making Skills |
Marines at Camp Pendleton, Calif., got a glimpse last week into what's likely to be the training environment of the future: one that injects live actors, animatronics, projected avatars and other sensory enhancements to replicate the sights, sounds, smells and stresses of combat -- and demands the same razor-sharp decision-making processes and responses.
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October 15, 2010 |
Army finds simple blood test to identify mild brain trauma |
The Army says it has discovered a simple blood test that can diagnose mild traumatic brain damage or concussion, a hard-to-detect injury that can affect young athletes, infants with 'shaken baby syndrome' and combat troops.
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October 15, 2010 |
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West Point Bionic Foot Achieves Powered Running |
Over the past few millennia, lower-limb prostheses have evolved by leaps and bounds.
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October 14, 2010 |
DOD, DHS Join Forces to Promote Cybersecurity |
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced today that their departments will work together to better protect against threats to military and civilian computer networks and systems.
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October 13, 2010 |
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General Calls for Better Suicide Prevention Efforts |
The military must address the stress wearing down the force and work to end the stigma surrounding mental health care to combat rising suicide rates, the chair of the Department of Defense Task Force on the Prevention of Suicide said today.
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October 8, 2010 |
Army's Tele-Health programs provide continuity of care |
The Tele-Health programs offered by the U.S. Army's Northern Regional Medical Command (Provisional) and Walter Reed Army Medical Center are using a novel, yet high-quality, approach to outpatient care.
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October 1, 2010 |
UCLA develops training videos for military doctors |
Reporting from San Diego - The images are horrifyingly graphic: gaping, blood-gushing war wounds.
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September 27, 2010 |
Families Get Tools to Assist Injured Loved Ones |
Family support is a key factor in the long-term recovery process and success of wounded warriors suffering traumatic brain injuries and other mental health problems, said senior staff members at the National Naval Medical Center here.
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September 24, 2010 |
Wounded Warriors Enjoy Summer Sports Clinic |
Traumatic brain injuries, amputations and other combat wounds aren't getting in the way of a good time -- and a great rehabilitative experience -- for 75 disabled veterans participating this week in the National Veterans Summer Sports Clinic in San Diego.
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September 24, 2010 |
Military Progresses in Identifying, Treating Brain, Mental Injuries |
Nine years of conflict has revolutionized the way the military treats its combat wounded, Vice Adm. Adam M. Robinson Jr., the Navy surgeon general, told American Forces Press Service.
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September 22, 2010 |
USAMRMC wins Research and Development Lab of the Year |
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army Marilyn Miller Freeman announced Friday that Medical Research and Materiel Command was chosen as the 2010 Research and Development Laboratory of the Year (small lab).
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September 16, 2010 |
Wounded Troops Challenge Obstacle Course |
They run road races and compete in triathlons. They climb mountains, kayak through rapids and ski on snow and water.
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September 14, 2010 |
Can Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Be Stopped Before it Begins? |
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) remains one of the biggest threats to veterans who survive military deployment.
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August 30, 2010 |
Military Medicine Embraces Disney's Customer-Focus |
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.
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August 26, 2010 |
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AUVSI: Transformers: Robots in disguise |
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.
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August 25, 2010 |
Face of Defense: Guardsman Takes First Jump With Prosthetic |
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.
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August 10, 2010 |
| Our Future Is Already in the Hands of Robots |
The crowds, cheerleaders and mascots are not here for a football game or a basketball tournament.
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July 25, 2010 |
| Army Works to Expand Combat Stress Detection |
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.
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July 22, 2010 |
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Unmanned helicopter missions a step closer |
With Sanjiv Singh's help, perhaps a Black Hawk downed won't be so deadly.
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July 7, 2010 |
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Army Cadet Creates First Ever Bionic Foot |
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.
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July 7, 2010 |
| Army partnership gives bionic foot a leg up |
The Army is developing advanced bionic feet, thanks to a partnership between Fort Detrick and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
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July 4, 2010 |
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Army Using Telemedicine For Healthcare Delivery |
Wounded soldiers, pregnant women, and diabetes patients are receiving medical and appointment reminders to support their rehabilitation and treatment.
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June 30, 2010 |
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Army Lab Releases Software That Designs Real-Time PCR Signatures to ID Pathogens |
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.
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June 30, 2010 |
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Medical software creator wins top government award |
Jaques Reifman received one of the government's most prestigious awards this week for establishing an institute for computational biology.
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June 30, 2010 |
| Presidential Rank Awards Ceremony recognizes Dr. Jaques Reifman |
The Meritorious Executive and Meritorious Senior Professional Rank Awards are given for sustained accomplishment.
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June 29, 2010 |
| Bionic feet for amputee cat |
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.
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June 25, 2010 |
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Departments Cooperate on Electronic Health Records |
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.
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June 14, 2010 |
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Technology to Drive New, Better Ways to Educate the Force |
Got a cell phone handy? It could be your ticket to keeping up with your professional development requirements.
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June 2, 2010 |
| West Point Cadets Achieve Motorized Running |
West Point cadets have designed, built and tested the world's first lower-leg prosthesis to achieve motorized running.
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May 26, 2010 |
| Invention Awards: A Hearing Aid That Uses Bones to Conduct Sound |
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.
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May 21, 2010 |
| Women honored for sparking girls' interest in sciences |
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.
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May 10, 2010 |
| Magic 'Pixie Dust' made from pig bladders helps 'regrow' limbs of wounded soldiers |
A powder nick-named 'Pixie Dust' is being used to save the limbs of war heroes who have been wounded in Afghanistan.
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May 5, 2010 |
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Cell phones a major Army health care tool |
If Fort Detrick researchers are successful, one of the most important health care tools for soldiers could be their cell phones.
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April 29, 2010 |
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Avatar Project Seeks to Help Military Amputees |
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.
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April 28, 2010 |
| Better Prosthetics Coming for Wounded Warriors By Donna Miles American Forces Press Service |
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.
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April 22, 2010 |
| Seeing Tongue, Spray-On Skin, Transplanted Hand: Top Officer Encounters Military's Extreme Medicine Wing |
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.
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April 19, 2010 |
| Sensors to be used in Fort Gordon PTSD study |
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.
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April 17, 2010 |
| GE, U.S. Army Join Forces To Assist Returning Soldiers From Iraq and Afghanistan |
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).
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April 14, 2010 |
| Inkjet-like device 'prints' cells right over burns |
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.
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April 9, 2010 |
| Will that cancer spread? New technology can tell early on |
| New technology pioneered by Dr. Richard Caprioli of Vanderbilt University can analyze the protein molecules within cells to identify these differences - in minutes.
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April 6, 2010
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| Spray-on dressing delivers quick healing bond |
Researchers are developing a new, sprayable liquid wound dressing technology that an injured warrior could apply one handed in a combat setting.
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March 31, 2010 |
| Virtual Worlds and the Military Amputee |
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.
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March 19, 2010 |
| WPI drives new research into Neuroprosthetics |
| 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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March 10, 2010 |
| Luke Skywalker's Hand and How Touch is Like Vision |
Perhaps the most famous neuroprosthetic device in movie history shows up at the end of The Empire Strikes Back.
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March 8, 2010 |
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Utah Legislature: Bill would require insurers to cover prosthetics |
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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March 8, 2010 |
| Vets invigorated on Vail Mountain |
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.
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March 8, 2010 |
| DARPA Pushes for Fail-Proof Prosthetics |
DARPA, the military's risk-taking research agency, is launching the next phase of its Revolutionizing Prosthetics program.
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March 8, 2010 |
| Energy-Recycling Artificial Foot |
According to a newly published paper on prosthesis, walking with a prosthetic foot requires 23 percent more energy than walking naturally.
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March 7, 2010 |
| Transplant Recipient Sees Potential for Wounded Warriors |
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.
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March 3, 2010 |
| FED TECH Magazine - Leading the Way an Health IT
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Army researchers push for cutting-edge bedside technologies that can deliver real-time data and better clinical decision support
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February 2, 2010 |
| Innovative prosthetic ankle to mobilize amputees |
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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January 22, 2010 |
