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The DOD imagines potions instead of MASH units.
US soldiers in Iraq are twice as likely to survive combat wounds as during World War II. Darpa, the Defense Department's research arm, thinks they've got even more fight in them. Persistence in Combat is the agency's program to keep an injured soldier pulling the trigger for up to four days without a medic or an evacuation. At the Medical College of Wisconsin, a neurologist is using high-powered LEDs to treat blindness caused by battlefield lasers. Researchers at UC Davis are working on a smart bandage that delivers tiny electrical impulses to accelerate tissue repair. And scientists at the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Research Institute are developing a "neural tourniquet" that stimulates the vagus nerve, reducing shock from trauma. Darpa wants results by 2008 - maybe just in time for Gulf War III.
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