Journal of Military and Veteran’s Health - JMVH

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Military medicine, explained through consequence.

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Journal of Military and Veteran’s Health - JMVH adapts research articles into tightly structured medical history and military health narratives. Episodes move from striking cases to mechanisms, showing how disease, terrain, load, trauma, flight, and logistics change survival.

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Journal of Military and Veteran’s Health - JMVH turns military and veterans’ health research into brisk editorial explainers. The show is built for consequence. Its recent run treats medical papers as entry points into bigger questions about war, bodies, logistics, and institutional memory. Measles is not framed as a harmless childhood rash, but as a former mass-casualty threat inside crowded armies. Tuberculosis becomes a centuries-long contest between human improvisation and microscopic persistence. Female load carriage is handled through biomechanics, metabolic strain, fracture risk, menstrual health, and the failure of one-size-fits-all design assumptions. The series is strongest when it connects a statistic to a mechanism. A drop in pelvic stress fractures is not just a number; it becomes evidence that forced marching can injure bodies by overriding natural movement. A jungle casualty count is not just a campaign detail; it reveals how malaria, dysentery, caloric deficit, and carrier labor shaped survival in Papua New Guinea during the Second World War. The medical history episodes have a stark rhythm. They move from received myth to physical reality, as with John Kirkpatrick Simpson, whose brief service is examined through civic ideals, legend-making, and practical courage. The aviation medicine material is similarly grounded. Pregnancy during air travel is treated through physiology, clot risk, hypobaric hypoxia, commercial airline limits, and the rising pressure on aeromedical retrieval systems. Combat-related PTSD is approached through EMDR, outdoor rhythm, and the specific protocol described around fly-fishing. Even the supplement episode keeps the focus on evidence under demanding military conditions rather than marketing language. The show’s two-voice structure gives the material momentum. One voice presses the question; the other builds the mechanism and consequence. The result is clear, grave, and unusually vivid. It suits listeners who want the body placed back inside history, terrain, policy, and risk.

Made for: For listeners drawn to medical history, military health, battlefield logistics, veterans’ issues, aviation medicine, and the physiology of extreme conditions. It especially fits people who like research made clear without sanding off its severity.

What sets it apart: The show translates peer-reviewed military health topics into narrative mechanisms: what happened, why the body responded that way, and what the system missed. Its range is unusually wide, connecting disease history, combat trauma, pregnancy in flight, load carriage, supplements, and wartime casualty data.

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The Journal of Military and Veterans’ Health is the official journal of the Australasian Military Medicine Association www.amma.asn.au. It is a peer reviewed scientific journal dedicated to supporting the publication of research and information on military medicine and veterans’ health, recognising that the impact of military service translates into health effects on military personnel long after they retire. It provides and promotes information for those health professionals who are working in, researching or have an interest in the unique facets of medicine and health of military personnel and veterans.

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Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026

Military history becomes a study of bodies and systems, with medical evidence revealing dangers that weapons alone cannot explain.

Journal of Military and Veteran's Health - JMVH turns research papers into two-voice conversations about the forces that shape survival in war.

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The marching order that broke pelvises: your military history just acquired an uncomfortable footnote.

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to understand why fresh air, turpentine, and collapsed lungs were once tried against tuberculosis
to see how measles turned recruit camps into a medical crisis

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military medical historyinfectious disease mortalitycombat-related PTSDfemale soldier load carriageaeromedical retrievalbattlefield logistics and diseasetuberculosis and sanatoriaperformance supplement evidence

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E54: Measles Mortality in the Armies of the Early 20th Century by G Dennis ShanksMay 6, 2026

Measles looks ordinary until history shows how dangerous it once was.

Measles gets pulled out of the usual childhood frame and into military history, where it could tear through healthy, physically fit men with brutal speed. The paper by G.

E52: Load Carriage and the Female Soldier by Venerina JohnsonApr 29, 2026

A clear, hard look at how load carriage turns stride mechanics into injury risk.

The piece treats load carriage as a systems problem, not a simple gear complaint. It shows how military design and training can flatten real differences in size, stride, and recovery, and it makes the biomechanical case that over-striding and 40 to 60 kilograms of kit are direct…

E51: History of Tuberculosis. Part 2 – the Sanatoria and the Discoveries of the Tubercle Bacillus by John FrithApr 26, 2026

A grim, clear history of TB care before modern medicine.

TB is treated as a history of numbers first, then bodies, then the stopgap ideas that felt urgent when medicine had little else to offer. It moves from Koch's one-in-seven warning to the sanatorium world of rest, fresh air, plain food, and forced housekeeping, then into the…

E50: Casualties in Australian Military and Indigenous Para-Military Units in Papua New Guinea during the Second World War by G Dennis ShanksApr 22, 2026

A spare, grim account of how jungle conditions killed more soldiers than the guns.

The episode moves the Papua New Guinea story away from gunfire and into the jungle, using the surrender of a little over 11,500 Japanese soldiers at the end of World War II to frame survival as the real test of combat.

E49: A SHORT LIFE RICH IN IMAGES: New Records of the Life of John Kirkpatrick (1892-1915) Simpson of the Australian Army Medical Corps by John PearnApr 19, 2026

A compact hero story about how duty, myth, and courage harden into memory.

The story is framed as a 24 day burst of action that grew into a century long legend, and it lands best when it ties that legacy to the civic world around him.

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E96: "Tropical Diseases of Military Importance: A Centennial Perspective" by Peter Leggatt

E95: "Developing an Operational Skillset for Military Critical Care Physicians: A Scoping Review" by Adam Mahoney

E94: "Causes for Medical Downgrading in an Army Brigade (1): The Role of Corps" by Darrell Duncan

E93: "Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Adherence and Response to Cognitive Processing Therapy for Veterans Living with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Obstructive Sleep Apnea" by Kristine Kunes

E92: "Guilt and It’s Relationship to Mental Illness and Suicide Attempts in an Australian Veteran Population with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder" by Katelyn Kerr

E91: "Paediatric aeromedical transport and hypoxia" by Jreffrey Stephenson

E90: "The face of war: The initial management of modern battlefield ballistic facial injuries" by A Breeze

E89: "Contribution to the Study of Shell Shock" by CS Meyers

E88: "Neurology in Aviation" by Roy Beran

E87: "Psychiatric Referrals: Protocols and Courtesies of Referral to Hospital" by B White

E86: "Infection Prevention and Control Practices in the Deployed Military Field Hospital: AN integrative review" by John Skipp

E85: "Load carriage: minimising soldier injuries through physical conditioning – a narrative review" by Julia Coyle

E84: "Paramedics in the Australian Defence Force – A Time for Change?" by Lauren D'Arcy

E83: "An Overview to Military Medical Ethics" by Martin Bricknell

E82: "Gastrointestinal Mortality in Military / Prison Camps of the 19th-20th Centuries" by G Dennis Shanks

E81: "Considerations Regarding Appendicitis at Sea" by David Becerra

E80: "Gulf War Illness in the 1991 Gulf War and Gulf Era Veteran Population: An Application of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Kansas Case Definitions to Historical Data by E Dursa,

E79: "Adjunct Activities for Mental Health Improvements for Veterans" by Tavis Watt

E78: "CRM training for ADF aeromedical staff" by Jeffrey Stephenson

E77: "Artificial intelligence and expert systems – their application to military medicine" by A G Robertson

E76: "Too Sick For Caring? An Analysis of The Health Impact of The Great War (1914-1918) on The First Cohort of New Zealand Nurses Who Served" by Wendy Maddocks

E75: "A Case Series Evaluating the Long-Term Efficacy of Botulinum Toxin in the Treatment of Painful Neuropathy" by Xinli Du & Deep Patel

E74: "Efficacy of Yoga for Managing Sleep Problems among Military Veterans: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis" by Rocío Carballo Afonso

E73: "Medial tibial stress syndrome in military recruits" by James Ross

E72: "Military Personnel and Psychological Support: An Analysis Based on Social Representation Theory" by V. Karamanoli & K. Papachristopoulos

E71: "Contact Poisons: A Brief Touch" by Andrew Robertson

E70: "Combat, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Health of Australian Vietnam Veteran Conscripts and Volunteers in the Three Decades After Return" by B O’Toole

E69: "Unraveling the Interplay Between Self-efficacy and Decision-making in Military Contexts: A Systematic Review" by Chrysanthi Lioupi and Vassiliki Ignatiou Karamanoli

E68: "Combat Helmets and Blast Traumatic Brain Injury" by Duncan Wallace

E67: "The Legacy of the Anaesthesia ‘Events’ at Pearl Harbor, 7th December 1941." by John A Crowhurst

E66: "Dengue Epidemics During the Second World War in Queensland" by Dennis G Shanks

E65: "Over a century of service: the .303 projectile and its wounding capabilities – a historical profile" by David Andrew

E64: "The Effects of Current Cold Chain Management Equipment in Controlling the Temperature of Thermolabile Medication..." by E Daly

E63: Acceleration-Induced atelectasis; a case with deceptive clinical manifestations for COVID-19 pneumonia by H Shahli & M Darvishi

E62: BIOLOGICAL AGENTS Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever by Sue Sharpe

E61: Toughening Up: Bullying in the British Army during the First World War by S Walker

E60: Psychosocial Risk Factors and their Impact on the Performance of Everyday Activities in Canadian Veterans by AM Miguel-Cruz

E59: When and How Military Students’ Self-Esteem May Become an Obstacle in Seeking Professional Mental Health Help When Needed? by Vassiliki Karamanoli

E58: Logistics in The Falklands War by Captain Arthur M Smith

E57: Submarine escape and rescue: a brief history by Nick Stewart

E56: Psychological Coping Mechanisms in Military Physicians: A Qualitative Exploration of Stress Management Strategies by Mahdia Ghorbankthani

E55: Thermobaric Munitions and their Medical Effects by David Andrew

E54: Measles Mortality in the Armies of the Early 20th Century by G Dennis Shanks

E53: Treating combat-related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder using Therapeutic Fly-Fishing with EMDR (TF-EMDR) by A Parmenter

E52: Load Carriage and the Female Soldier by Venerina Johnson

E51: History of Tuberculosis. Part 2 – the Sanatoria and the Discoveries of the Tubercle Bacillus by John Frith

E50: Casualties in Australian Military and Indigenous Para-Military Units in Papua New Guinea during the Second World War by G Dennis Shanks

E49: A SHORT LIFE RICH IN IMAGES: New Records of the Life of John Kirkpatrick (1892-1915) Simpson of the Australian Army Medical Corps by John Pearn

E48: "Air travel and pregnancy – with reference to obstetric and perinatal aeromedical retrieval" by Jeffrey Stephensen

E47: Military Effectiveness of Five Dietary Supplements Purported to Aid Cognitive and Physical Performance by Bradley Baker

E46: Pacific Island Societies Destabilised by Infectious Diseases by G Dennis Shanks

E45: Glimpses of future battlefield medicine – the proliferation of robotic surgeons and unmanned vehicles and technologies by Gary Martinic

E44: War-Related Dysentery Epidemics in the Australian Army by G Dennis Shanks

E43: Does Current Policy Support Reproductive Health of Australian Defence Force Veterans? A Review of Australian Defence Force Policy by Rachelle Warner

E42: Intrinsic and External Factors and Influences on the Motivation of Suicide Attackers by Gregor Bruce

E41: Psychological Screening in the Australian Defence Force: An Historical and Contemporary Analysis of what Works by Kylie Tuppin

E40: Poppy Seed and Prohibited Drug Testing by Ross Mills

E39: The neurophysiologic aspects of G-induced loss of consciousness (G-LOC) by David G Newman

E38: Innovations from the Battlefield: Tourniquets by Dominic Maher

E37: Antimalarial Drug Supply Issues during the Second World War by G. Dennis Shanks

E36: Effects of deployment on mental health in modern military forces: A review of longitudinal studies by Peter Nasveld

E35: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Killing in Combat: A Review of Existing Literature by Vicky Aldridge

E34: The History of Plague Pt 2. The discoveries of the plague Bacillus and its Vector by John Frith.

E33: Agent Orange Reviewed: Potential Role in Peripheral Neuropathy and Neurodegeneration

E32: Effects of Penthrox® (methoxyflurane) as an analgesic on cardiovascular and respiratory functions in the pre-hospital setting

E31: From Milites Medici to Army Medics – A two thousand year tradition of military medicine By Robb Wesselingh

E25: CHEMICAL AGENTS Contact Poisons: A Brief Touch

E23: Antibacterial Warfare: The Production of Natural Penicillin and the Search for Synthetic Penicillin During the Second World War by Bruce Short

E24: Fast women: Or why women who fly high performance aircraft are fast but not loose by Tracy Smart

E26: A Review of Art Therapy Among Military Service Members and Veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder by Jeremy Ramirez

E29: The Australian Army’s Two ‘Traditional’ Diseases: Gonorrhea and Syphilis — A Military-Medical History During the Twentieth Century by Ian Howie-Willis