FORT DETRICK, Md. — A new tool being developed by the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command’s DOD Blast Injury Research Coordinating Office will help service members protect themselves ...

Nicole Herling was praying for brain disease. That’s rarely happy news. But for her, it offered a potential answer to a haunting question: why, in less than a year, had her brother transformed from a ...

In October 2023, Robert Card — a grenade instructor in the Army Reserve — shot and killed 18 people in Maine, before turning the gun on himself. As reported by The New York Times, his family said that ...

A new quantum-powered brain scanner is set to change how militaries protect troops from blast exposure by bringing laboratory-grade imaging directly to firing ranges. Scientists in the UK are ...

(Boston)—The prevalence of armed conflicts, terrorist attacks and industrial accidents necessitates clinician understanding of blast injuries in both civilian and military settings. Blast injuries are ...

Every day, thousands of people use indoor gun ranges that are designed to limit the hazards of target shooting, including lead exposure and stray bullets. But shooting indoors poses another hazard ...

When military personnel fire certain powerful weapons, they are exposed to a blast wave that sends blood surging from the body to the brain. This "tsunami in the body" is one way a blast can injure ...