(Jerusalem Post) Yaakov Katz - The IDF Medical Corps and the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command held a joint seminar in Israel last week aimed at coordinating research and development efforts in new military-medical fields. The workshops have been ongoing for 30 years. IDF sources described ongoing Israeli research projects such as freeze-dried blood that will enable soldiers to carry a unit of their blood into a battlefield and hook up to it intravenously if wounded. An IDF Medical Corps study conducted recently with Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv showed that Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) - a specialized MRI scan which measures neural activity - could be an effective tool in diagnosing and treating PTSD.
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