Military’s Freakiest Medical Projects (Photos-not for everyone)

The U.S. military has been on the forefront of medical research for decades. Earlier conflicts spurred discoveries to prevent malaria and typhoid, a sweeping overhaul of triage care and the introduction of skin grafts and morphine.

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are no different. With more troops surviving devastating injuries, the military is fast-tracking efforts in regenerative medicine, investigating risky measures to prevent lifelong brain damage -- even employing acupuncture in an effort to manage pain and mitigate post-traumatic stress. (And let's not forget about the zombie pigs.) Some of the Pentagon's extreme medical innovations have already debuted in the war zone. And with myriad applications outside of combat, these advances in military medicine mean that revolutionary changes for civilian care aren't far behind.

1: Ears, Fingers and Hands: Rapid Progress in Replacement Body Parts
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lifelike prosthetics, including ears, noses and eyes, are now customized to the patient, thanks to 3-D modeling, skin-tone matching and titanium implants that allow the prosthetics to adhere to the body using magnets

2: Far-Out Face-Transplant Surgeries
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More troops surviving injuries means traumatic damage, often to the face or extremities, that's in need of repair. In less than a decade, face-transplant surgeries — including muscles, cartilage, nerves and tissue — have moved from Hollywood blockbusters into the operating room.

3: Plasma Knives: Surgical Cutting That Stops Bleeding
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It's a surgical cutting tool that stays sterile anywhere, runs off batteries and seals wounds using a beam of hot ionized gas. The out-there innovation — called a "plasma knife" — has already undergone field tests by Special Operations Command.

Source: www.wired.com...

I don't even know what to say. Just simply amazing stuff in this article. A must read. The good thing out of allof this is that people are benifiting from it. Not just the military folks but cilivians.

I know war sucks but some good things can come from it. It makes me feel pretty darn good about all of this medical stuff being used/developed. That's what God gave us a brain for-so we can make our lives better.

Any ATS members ever come under circumstances that made them available for this treatment. It would be interesting to hear a first hand experience account.

Please check out the article, which has a video also (I can't watch it-computer issues). Let me know how it goes.

I dunno, I've seen some of how they come up with some of this tech, and it's not on war victims.. It's on living aware animals.

A live pig, with a blowtorch applied to its entire hind quarters, tied down, squealing in agony and then fed a drink seeing it lap it up in shock. Just to experiment on how to deal with burn victims.

And the second picture in this ... war on rats now? Do we not have enough Human casualties willing to be experimented on? I mean, these people are going to war with a full expectation they MIGHT die.... ugh

Sure I'm for HUMANE research into saving humanity, but NOT at the cost of it.

I won't ever agree to seeing it as good as long as we treat other creatures as commodities or as a research tool.

I just wont....

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It warms my heart to see such care being taken for burned/injured veterans, but at the same time I find it confusing when I read about them not even being able to get proper treatment for post traumatic stress, and sexual assaults.

These individuals who have been severely burned will also have multiple mental health issues, it goes with the territory. I just hope the VA is adequately caring for those emotional injuries as well.

Human beings are just not cut-out for war. Sigh.

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Very excellent point. Well done and I concur.

PTSD-I know we need to do something more. I have seen a few guys around where I work and I think they need some professional assistance.

The Rapes. I don't know what to do about that. Other than arm each female with a sidearm and tell them to use it if need be-end of story.