- The medical care needs of military personnel are once again in the spotlight following a political dust-up over service members’ exposure to environmental hazards at burn pits
- Another long-standing concern among service personnel is the treatment of concussive brain injuries
- Although no FDA-approved prescription drug currently exists for treating concussions, medical product developer Odyssey Health Inc. is testing a device-drug combination designed to stop concussion injury in its tracks to avoid long-term harm
- Odyssey Health’s product would use an inhaler-like device to deliver the special medication into the nasal cavity for better uptake into the central nervous system, keying on its demonstrated ability to cross the blood-brain barrier
U.S. military service members’ healthcare concerns landed a new place in the spotlight during the past month when outraged veterans and veteran-friendly politicians called attention to a sudden reversal of fortune for a Congressional bill that promised expanded benefits to service members exposed to environmentally hazardous burn pits used in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere in the years after Sept. 11, 2001.
The bill was slated to label 23 diseases as presumed to be linked to military service, which would have made it easier for veterans to receive expedited health services and disability compensation without having to prove their illness was service-related. But after initially garnering the votes it needed to…
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