OSU, Air Force team up for medical research

COLUMBUS (AP) — Ohio State University is teaming with an Ohio-based Air Force research laboratory to help improve the health and performance of Special Forces troops and elite collegiate athletes.

The first-ever agreement is between the OSU Wexner Medical Center and researchers at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton. They’ll develop and test technologies that may do everything from telling how close an athlete is to overexertion to letting a military instructor know if a soldier is dehydrated.

The Dayton Daily News reports researchers also hope the technologies will monitor and reduce disabilities in the lives of patients with debilitating neurological conditions, such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism, dementia and traumatic brain injury.

Dr. Ali R. Rezai, Wexner Medical Center’s director of neuroscience, says the collaboration could lead to groundbreaking discoveries.