There are a variety of reasons why the Department of Defense requires their flight surgeons to fly a minimum of hours monthly in their assigned primary aircraft. Some of these reasons are historic or circumstantial, while others are more strategic. Read more in this ground-breaking blog post.

Check out the new CDC guidance for healthcare workers regarding the recent Ebola outbreak.

The KLM-Panam disaster in Tenerife still remains the most deadly aircraft mishap in history. This tragedy in which 583 souls perished still offers a number of lessons learned and shows how the cause of most mishaps is due to a number of direct and indirect causal factors that happen to align in a most unfortunate way.

The final report for the 90-day review that Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel called for in July 2014 was released on 1 October 2014. See the details and summary to this ground-breaking review here.

Vitamins, minerals, supplements and medications are all essentially bioactive chemicals. Some convey benefits, some convey risks and some can provoke both benefits and risks to those who take them. Aircrew need to approach these risk-benefit questions with extended caution.

Incentive and familiarization flights are often offered to military personnel as a means of rewarding the troops and introducing them to air operations. These non-aircrew require significant training in aerospace physiology prior to their flight. This blog post was created as a means to assist the flight surgeon this required training.

Check out this defense of military medicine after another piece of poorly investigated NYT journalism makes unfounded attacks on the military healthcare system. See why these authors seem to lack an understanding of objective scientific methods as they attempt to uncover narratives that only support what they already believe to be true.

Radiaiton presents a unique and often unappreciated risk to pilots and astronauts. Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCR's) are considered a threat to aviators, flight crews and frequent air travelers. This risk to astronauts is even greater (possibly even lethal) and continues to pose a significant obstacle to long expeditions into outer space.

In 2014, there was a large outbreak of Ebola that involved 4 Western African countries. The extreme contagiousness of this disease combined with the globalization of the modern world led to a variety of new policies to stop or hinder the spread of disease. This also affected air travel and airline policy.

A scathing editorial from the New York Times published on 23 June 2014 attacked military healthcare delivery and suggested that it delivers a far inferior form of medicine than the civilian system. This blog post will explore this article and point out many of the inaccuracies contained within the NYT article.