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To better understand the causes of diseases in service members, epidemiologists and preventive medicine physicians utilize a hidden gem of medical research information within the Department of Defense – the DoD Serum Repository (DoDSR).
Hidden gem strengthens cutting-edge DoD research
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brief description:
https://health.mil/Military-Health-Topics/Research-and-Innovation/MHS-Studies-Inventory-Tool/Studies/A-Brief-Description-of-the-Operation-of-the-DoD-Serum-Repository
Do I understand correctly that everyone's blood that was drawn for the mandatory HIV testing is the DOD serum repository that is used for research?
"Certain militarily-relevant research studies occur, though the serum from a specific individual is never allowed to be fully exhausted."
"The addition of new specimen processing capacity and significant changes to policy would be required if more of the specimens were to be used to answer relevant epidemiological, operational, or medical research questions."
also Ethics, Human Use, and the Department of Defense Serum Repository.
https://health.mil/Military-Health-Topics/Research-and-Innovation/MHS-Studies-Inventory-Tool/Studies/Ethics--Human-Use--and-the-Department-of-Defense-Serum-Repository
brief description:
https://health.mil/Military-Health-Topics/Research-and-Innovation/MHS-Studies-Inventory-Tool/Studies/A-Brief-Description-of-the-Operation-of-the-DoD-Serum-Repository
Do I understand correctly that everyone's blood that was drawn for the mandatory HIV testing is the DOD serum repository that is used for research?
"Certain militarily-relevant research studies occur, though the serum from a specific individual is never allowed to be fully exhausted."
"The addition of new specimen processing capacity and significant changes to policy would be required if more of the specimens were to be used to answer relevant epidemiological, operational, or medical research questions."
also Ethics, Human Use, and the Department of Defense Serum Repository.
https://health.mil/Military-Health-Topics/Research-and-Innovation/MHS-Studies-Inventory-Tool/Studies/Ethics--Human-Use--and-the-Department-of-Defense-Serum-Repository
A Brief Description of the Operation of the DoD Serum Repository
Beginning in 1985, the United States military has consistently maintained repositories of frozen human serum for force health protection reasons. The separate repositories created by the Army, Navy, and Air Force during the startup of their human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) screening programs were fully combined by 1996, along with the Defense Medical Surveillance System, to form the DoD Serum Repository (DoDSR). Currently comprised of...
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