MMSL, 2015 (vol. 84), issue 1
DUAL USE RESEARCH OF CONCERN: DERIVATIVES OF 3-QUINUCLIDINYL BENZILATE (BZ)Review article
James C. Ball
MMSL 2015, 84(1):2-41 | DOI: 10.31482/mmsl.2015.001 
Dual Use Research of Concern (DURC) deals with the unintended consequences of research and development and is particularly acute in the area of drug development. The United States National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) has defined DURC as "research that, based on current understanding, can be reasonably anticipated to provide knowledge, products, or technologies that could be directly misapplied by others to pose a threat to public health, agriculture, plants, animals, the environment, or materiel" (1). One particular receptor antagonist and glycolate anticholinergic compound (BZ, QNB or 3-quinuclidinyl benzilate) was stockpiled by...
THE RATE OF MENTAL STRESS OF FIELD HOSPITAL NURSES IN FOREIGN MILITARY MISSIONSOriginal article
Jaroslav Žďára, Zdeněk Hrstka
MMSL 2015, 84(1):42-47 | DOI: 10.31482/mmsl.2015.002
The main goal of this reaserch is an evaluatin of mental stress. The level of stress was studied in a group of nurses that spent some time on the military missions, especially in Afghanistan.We used Meister questionary for evaluation of a stress level at work, in a civilian hospital in the Czech Republic and a military work place, during the mission.In conclusion, the goal of our reaserch is classification of a stress level during the nurses' deployment in foreign mission. Based on these results, some methods convenient for managing a higher level of stress were described and mechanisms of stress adaptation are discussed.
MILITARY DOCTORS WERE AWARDED HONORARY MEMBERSHIPLetter to the editor
Leo Klein
MMSL 2015, 84(1):48
On 17th December 2014, an anniversary day of birth of J.E. Purkinje, a ceremonial committee meeting of the Society of Military Physicians, Pharmacists and Veterinarians of the Czech Medical Association of J.E.Purkinje was held at the Faculty of Military Health Sciences of the University of Defence in Hradec Králové. On that occasion the merited and outstanding representatives of military medicine were awarded honorary membership diplomas. The founding members of the Society COL (retd.) Assoc. Prof. MUDr. Jiří Bajgar, DrSc., COL (retd.) MUDr. Milan Veselý, and COL (retd.) MUDr. Stanislav Konštacký, CSc., were awarded. In this way, the Committee...