Pentagon Shelves Blast Gauges Meant To Detect Battlefield Brain Injuries

Source: http://www.brainhealtheducation.org/pentagon-shelves-blast-gauges-meant-to-detect-battlefield-brain-injuries/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pentagon-shelves-blast-gauges-meant-to-detect-battlefield-brain-injuries

The Pentagon has quietly sidelined a program that placed blast gauges on thousands of combat troops in Afghanistan. The monitoring was discontinued because the gauges failed to reliably show whether service members had been close enough to an explosion to have sustained a concussion, or mild traumatic brain injury. But the small wearable devices did

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