Defense Department leaders on Friday unveiled a series of new steps designed to protect troops from blast overpressure injuries related to weapons use, including new restrictions on how close trainers ...

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 a ...

The autopsy of Robert Card, who killed 18 people and wounded 13 more in a rampage in Maine last fall, reported severe damage in his brain—scarring, inflammation, damaged tissue, missing white matter.

Data exclusively shared with Military.com from a live-fire mortar exercise by U.S. Army troops indicates that simply standing near mortars can significantly disrupt Autonomic Nervous System, or ANS, ...

DALLAS — Far from any battlefield, North Texas scientists are testing a familiar nutrient they hope can help regrow soldiers’ damaged muscles. At the University of Texas at Arlington, professor of ...

Six of the seven victims killed last month in the R.M. Palmer Company factory explosion died from blast injuries, according to a preliminary report from the Berks County Coroner’s Office. The seventh ...

For soldiers caught in explosions, survival often comes at a steep physical cost. Blast injuries can tear through muscle and bone, leaving survivors with severe tissue loss and long, painful ...

The special eye position due to the architecture of the middle part of the facial skeleton extends laterally, exposing the surface of the eye/orbit to the blast injury. Multiple biophysics effects of ...

No one attending the Boston Marathon on Patriot’s Day in 2013 expected to be victims of a terrorist attack that killed three spectators, and physically injured more than 260 people. Many more are ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Dr. Rashad Usmani is an orthopedic hand surgeon at OrthoIndy’s Westfield location. In his role, he’s seen some of the worst blast injuries as a result of Fourth of July firework ...