The purpose of our study was to pinpoint the hallmarks of military radiology during the first 20 years after the discovery of x-rays by Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen. X-ray examination become indispensable for the diagnosis and treatments of military wounds. Initially, x-ray apparatus were installed in permanent military hospitals. The evolution of technology and the increasing needs for immediate tr...

Psychiatry decided to train selected A.T.S. Officers as Military Social Workers in various psychiatric hospitals. The following is a brief survey of the work done since that time till March, 1946, in the largest military hospital dealing with psychoneurotic cases. The range of cases dealt with has been varied but marital and family difficulties have been amongst the most frequent and difficult....

OBJECTIVE Our objective in this report was to describe the epidemiologic features of and workload associated with pediatric admissions to 12 US Army military hospitals deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. METHODS The Patient Administration Systems and Biostatistics Activity database was queried for all local national patients <18 years of age who were admitted to deployed Army hospitals in Afgha...

OBJECTIVE This report aims at both estimation of the rates of overall nosocomial and urinary tract infection (UTI) and their linear trends as well as studying the potential risk factors of patients admitted to Al-Hada, Rehab and Prince Sultan military hospitals and developed nosocomial UTIs (NUTIs). METHODS A case-control study on 206 discharged patients with confirmed UTI and 618 controls wi...