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U.S. Military Ends Practice of Shooting Live Animals to Train Medics to Treat Battlefield Wounds

The 2026 National Defense Authorization Act bans the use of live animals in live fire training exercises and prohibits ...
Stars and Stripes

Military ends ‘painful’ experiments on cats and dogs and stops shooting of animals in ‘trauma’ exercises

The shift is part of a government-wide effort to phase out the use of live animals in federally sponsored tests, studies and ...
Navy Times

Hospital corpsmen receive new training to treat trauma patients on ships, battlefields

Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Anson Nguyen, a Hospital Corpsman Trauma Training-Great Lakes, Ill., student, prepares to perform a cricothyrotomy on a training manikin. (Cmdr. Colleen Abuzeid/Navy) ...
EdSource

Addressing early childhood trauma requires shift in policy, more training for teachers

For the first time, more than 100 California-based agencies and advocacy groups that have teamed up to raise awareness about the impact of early childhood trauma on families and communities took that ...
Time

The Government Wants to Teach Students How to Treat Gunshot Wounds. That Could Save Lives, Experts Say

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is offering a new $1.8 million grant for a program teaching high school students “mass casualty survival techniques” in the event of school shootings, ...
WTOL

Trauma Training highlights need for increased efforts to help children with trauma in foster care

TOLEDO, Ohio — The Trauma Training Conference jointly hosted by NAMI Greater Toledo and CareNet at the Main Library in downtown Toledo touched on the fact that some children in foster care struggle ...
The Marshall Project

The City Trying ‘Trauma Training’ for Citizens — and Cops

Easing the deep and long-held mistrust between law enforcement and communities of color has no easy fix. But in Newark, N.J., police have embarked on an experiment that they hope will calm tensions by ...
Rutgers UniversityOpinion

Researchers Press for a Rethinking of Childhood Trauma Support in Schools

Schools should be ideal places for children who have faced trauma to process their experiences. Yet too often, school systems ...
usace.army.mil

Trauma training improves medical readiness for BACH, Fort Campbell

Thirteen medical providers from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, completed the Trauma Nursing Core Course March 8, enhancing their ability to quickly assess and treat patients with traumatic life-threatening ...
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Transforming Trauma Care: Modernizing the Army PA Battlefield Training

Fort Carson, Colo. - U.S. Army Capt. William Clark, a physician's assistant (PA) with the 4th Combat Aviation Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, took a deep breath as he stepped onto the floor for his ...
The Gazette

Monthly trauma training keeps skills sharp at Colorado Springs hospital

Emergency room doctor Jennifer West checks the vitals of a motorcycle crash patient during a Simulated Trauma Alert Training Tuesday in the Emergency Department at UCHealth Memorial Hospital Central.
WTVD

WakeMed becomes 1 of 4 hospitals to provide trauma training to Navy Corpsmen

RALEIGH (WTVD) -- WakeMed is one of four hospitals nationwide in a partnership with the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. The program debuted on Feb. 1 at the Raleigh hospital and will ...