Latest "battlefield medicine" stories

The remarkable and unlikely story of the clotting agent QuikClot, and the two men who persisted in bringing it into the public light, is told in a new book, "In the Blood."

How QuikClot went from drug company reject to front-line ‘miracle’

Clotting agent QuikClot has helped save lives on the battlefield and beyond. This excerpt from “In the Blood” explores its use in the Iraq War.

By Charles Barber

5 months ago

Learning from the ‘mistakes of the future’

How do you avoid repeating the mistakes of the future?

By Stephen Weigand

4 years ago

Air Force special ops surgical team on front lines of ISIS war receives Bronze Stars

Five Bronze Stars were awarded to members of an Air Force Special Operations Surgical Team at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital on Tuesday.

By Kyle Rempfer

6 years ago

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