Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New military recruits will get baseline cognitive testing and training instructors will have to stand farther away when some ...

Blast overpressure will always be part of military training, but repeated, unmitigated exposure should not be the price warfighters, instructors, RSOs, and their families pay for readiness.

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 ...

An Army reservist who killed 18 and wounded 13 in a mass shooting in Maine last October had signs of brain damage that likely came from blast overpressure — a little understood form of long-term ...

WASHINGTON — Three senators are asking the Pentagon to explain how it is protecting service members from brain injuries caused by blast waves from firing weapons. The senators are requesting updates ...

The National Academies standing committee will serve as a forum for dialogue on developing occupational exposure limits for blast overpressure and related brain health concerns. The standing committee ...

In October 2023, Robert Card — a grenade instructor in the Army Reserve — shot and killed 18 people in Maine, before turning the gun on himself. As reported by The New York Times, his family said that ...

FORT DETRICK, Md. — A new tool being developed by the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command’s DOD Blast Injury Research Coordinating Office will help service members protect themselves ...

The Pentagon would be required to modify weapons, update safety guidelines, train medical staff and track individual troops’ exposure to repeated blasts that can injure their brains. By Dave Philipps ...

The brain may be injured by the noise, which is produced when, for example, an anti-tank weapon (Bazooka, Karl Gustav) or a howitzer (Haubits) is fired. Scientists at the Sahlgrenska Academy ...