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