http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. US war veterans on Monday suggested meditation to help heal the post-war mental disturbances that afflict a growing number of American soldiers, including possibly the ex-Marine who gunned down the country's most famous sniper over the weekend. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-war-veterans-meditation-ptsd.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 05 Feb 2013 05:00:03 EST news279261575 (AP)—The grass is no greener. But, finally, it's legal—at least somewhere in America. It's been a long, strange trip for marijuana. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-pot-proper-history-weed.html Health Thu, 06 Dec 2012 11:01:36 EST news274014084 American Soldiers are reaping the rewards of an innovative Army program designed to identify and treat Soldiers at risk of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or depression earlier by conducting behavioral health screening at all primary care visits. During the American Psychiatric Association's annual meeting last month, Col. Charles Engel, M.D., M.P.H., described the RESPECT-Mil program and its results to date in his presentation, "Effective Integrated Mental Health & Primary Care Services in the U.S. Military." Col. Engel is the RESPECT-Mil program director, director of the Department of Defense Deployment Health Clinical Center at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, and senior scientist at the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress. He is also associate chair (Research) of the Department of Psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University School of Medicine in Bethesda, Md. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-ptsd-outcomes-army-behavioral-health.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 06 Jun 2012 12:56:10 EST news258206161 The Iraq war ushered in dramatic advances in battlefield medicine, with the effects of homemade bombs leading the US military to radically change how it treats wounded soldiers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-iraq-war-revolution-battlefield-medicine.html Other Sun, 11 Dec 2011 03:26:42 EST news242796386