The decades-long fight for Blue Water Navy veterans to receive VA disability benefits for illnesses linked to exposure to Agent...
Breakthroughs in the science of programmable gene expression inspired the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to establish the PReemptive Expression of Protective Alleles and Response Elements...
The United Kingdom’s Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) is seeking rapid innovations to improve the deployability and overall health of service personnel through the use of...
A product that can simply wipe a surface and indicate the presence of opiates could prevent police officers and paramedics from exposures when responding to overdose...
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s Chemical and Biological Technologies Department is developing materials to provide ‘second skin’ protection from exposure to chemical and biological agents with...
The Responder Health Report highlights recent health, safety and wellness topics for the emergency management, first responder and veteran community. POLICY + POLITICS Still Counting: 9/11’s...
Metabolon, Inc., announced today that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has been contracted through its alliance with AKESOgen to perform large-scale metabolomic profiling on...
The Senate passed a bipartisan bill on Nov. 17 to make anthrax vaccines available to first responders. The First Responder Anthrax Preparedness Act passed the Senate...
Analog Devices, Inc. and Dell EMC last week unveiled a proof of concept (POC) for an Internet of Things (IoT) solution that tracks the health and...
A severely burned Mississippi firefighter, who underwent the most extensive face transplant ever performed, is thriving one year after his historic surgery, according to his medical...
Some jobs inherently increase the risk of being exposed to traumatic events, such as first responders, corrections and military personnel. A new resource from Canada’s Public...
The Department of Defense (DoD) Blast Injury Research Program is working to advance the Human Upper Extremity Blast Injury Prevention Standard. The Blast Injury Prevention Standard...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued a new call for proposals via the First Responders Group Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for the following topics: Self-Detecting and...
The U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC), on behalf of the DoD Blast Injury Research Program Coordinating Office (PCO), is conducting market research to...
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), NHTSA is seeking a contractor to assist in generating and...
