Life Sciences
![MALARIA](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20161110081919im_/http://science.dodlive.mil/files/2016/10/MALARIA-1-183x108.jpg)
The Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Center (KAIPTC), hosted a malaria diagnostics training course over the summer in support of the continuing East and West Africa Malaria Task Force (EWAMTF), efforts to assist African military partners in expanding their malaria programs.
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![NIGERIA](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20161110081919im_/http://science.dodlive.mil/files/2016/10/NIGERIA-1-183x108.jpg)
The JWARG’s mission is to support the Department of Defense’s force health protection requirements for emerging infectious disease while building partnerships in West Africa to address lessons observed in the 2014-2015 outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD).
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![Participants of Pacific Endeavor 2016 receive incoming voice transmissions from the field at the exercise’s Multinational Coordination Center. DoD photo by Air Force Master Sgt. Todd Kabalan](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20161110081919im_/http://science.dodlive.mil/files/2016/08/2824366-183x108.jpg)
Communicators attending Exercise Pacific Endeavor aim to validate and document high-frequency voice and data transfer using ordinary field radios.
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![Caption: “An Army flight medic. The mask represents our country shedding tears for our military on one side, and our military shedding tears for our country on the other side. Quotes on the military side (which also symbolizes death via the skull) read, “Shed no more tears, your medic will shed them for you,” and “I have destroyed my life and myself so that others may live.”” Mask by a military service member from art therapy sessions at the National Intrepid Center of Excellence, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Temporary exhibit of art therapy masks on display at National Museum of Health and Medicine, Silver Spring, Md. in Aug-Sept. 2016. (Disclosure: This image has been cropped to emphasize the subject.) (National Museum of Health and Medicine photo by Matthew Breitbart/ Released)](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20161110081919im_/http://science.dodlive.mil/files/2016/08/2808093-1-183x108.jpg)
On August 30, Science Café attendees will hear from Melissa Walker, a credentialed art therapist who works with service members to artistically help and process their feelings, experiences, and identities.
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![ACTIVITY copy](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20161110081919im_/http://science.dodlive.mil/files/2016/08/ACTIVITY-copy-183x108.jpg)
First in vivo tests demonstrate ultrasound can be used to wirelessly power and communicate with millimeter-scale devices surgically placed in muscles and nerves.
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![SILVER SPRING, Md. (Aug. 9, 2016) Cmdr. Michael Stockelman, deputy director of the Infectious Diseases Directorate at the Naval Medical Research Center, shows petri dishes containing pathogens used in phage research. The Naval Medical Research Center, in collaboration with the Walter Reed Army
Institute of Research, successfully combated an antibiotic-resistant infection in a laboratory model through bacteriophage therapy, which uses viruses found in the environment that are known for their activity against bacteria. (Photo by NMRC Public Affairs)](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20161110081919im_/http://science.dodlive.mil/files/2016/08/INFECTION-1-183x108.jpg)
NMRC worked in collaboration with Navy Medicine’s overseas laboratories to collect phages from environmental sources around the world and personalized them so they could be made by selecting multiple individual phages to create phage mixes customized to the needs of each patient.
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![Maj. Ryan McDonough (background), chief of cardiology, William Beaumont Army Medical Center, inserts a guide wire through the femoral artery of a patient during an ST- Segment Elevation Myocardial infarction, or STEMI, procedure at the catheterization laboratory, WBAMC, June 29. WBAMC currently holds the fastest door-to-balloon times in the Department of Defense and the City of El Paso, Texas, averaging 50 minutes over the last two years. Door-to-balloon time is the measurement of time necessary from the point of patient arrival to the point a catheter with a small balloon is deployed placing a coronary stent system in the artery and opening up the artery. National guidelines for door-to-balloon time are set at 90 minutes or less.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20161110081919im_/http://science.dodlive.mil/files/2016/07/2743043-1-183x108.jpg)
An estimated 610,000 Americans die of heart disease every year. That’s one in every four deaths. Heart disease remains the leading cause of deaths in the U.S.
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