The next time you find yourself with an extra external hole in your gut, you’d better hope one of these new tourniquets is on-hand. Otherwise, you could well die. When you’ve been shot in the abdomen, ...

Rebels are commonly trained to aim just below a soldier’s body armour — the abdominal area that meets the legs. When a bullet hits strikes area, it causes massive internal bleeding which often proves ...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- On Friday morning the U.S. Special Operations Command received its first shipment of a medical device that has Birmingham roots and promises to save lives on the battlefield.

Some special operations medics in Afghanistan now have a new device that helps save soldiers with the most common cause of preventable death in combat: a traumatic pelvic wound. Unlike a hemorrhage in ...

Two emergency physicians with some impressive war-time credentials, from Georgia Health Sciences University and Trinity Medical Center in Birmingham, Alabama, have developed a device to prevent severe ...

Until very recently, there was no way to stop bleeding in the area below the torso, unlike the arms and legs that can use a hemostatic squeezer. For this reason, if the torso is injured and bleeds, it ...