The evolution of wartime surgery: The first official Navy program for a light-maneuver, surgical team completes its first successful trial underway
The Navy’s first Role 2 Light Maneuver (R2LM) team, Navy Adaptive Trauma Team (NATT) ONE, put their crew to the test in their first exercise with the fleet, integrating with the medical department aboard Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship USS Rushmore (LSD 47) for...
How Veterans Affairs is leading with big data, precision medicine
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is carrying through on initiatives set by former Vice President Joe Biden, who last year told healthcare experts at the Medical Innovation Summit that innovators can and will defeat cancer. This year, Veterans Affairs Deputy...
Neural Analtyics wins $10m DoD for point-of-care TBI diag device
Neural Analytics said today it won a $10 million contract with the US Dept. of Defense’s US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command to develop a portable, point-of-care device to assess combat-related traumatic brain injuries. Through the contract, Los...
DHA picks 36 small firms for $7.5B health care staffing contract
The Defense Health Agency has selected 36 companies for a five-year, $7.5 billion contract to provide health care workers at U.S. military facilities in all 50 states. DHA competed the contract as a small business set-aside and awardees will vie for task orders over...