News tagged with military
Kidney injury: A serious risk to the health and survival of today's soldiers
Acute kidney injury (AKI), an abrupt or rapid decline in kidney function, is a serious and increasingly prevalent condition. Little information has been available about how common or how severe AKI is in military personnel ...
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Dec 08, 2011 |
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Outsiders on the front lines
Women have a long history of protesting war, but anti-war protest by women who've served as soldiers is a relatively new phenomenon. While there's a growing rate of women serving in western militaries (with some women in ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 01, 2011 |
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Study offers new insight for preventing fear relapse after trauma
(Medical Xpress) -- In a new study, University of Michigan researchers identified brain circuits in rats that are responsible for the return of fear after it has been suppressed behaviorally.
Neuroscience
Nov 29, 2011 |
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Does the military make the man or does the man make the military?
"Be all you can be," the Army tells potential recruits. The military promises personal reinvention. But does it deliver? A new study, which will be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 18, 2011 |
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Hope on the horizon for patients with post-traumatic stress disorder
Researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) are teaming up for a research project aimed at advancing the treatment of military personnel suffering from post-traumatic ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 18, 2011 |
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Researchers aim to improve lives of military families with special needs
Raising a child with a mental or a physical disability is tough work for any parent. But just imagine the added stresses for a parent on active duty in the U.S. armed forces: Possible deployments to war zones, base reassignments ...
Health
Nov 03, 2011 |
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Violence more common among kids of combat veterans
(AP) -- A new study suggests that when parents are deployed in the military, their children are more than twice as likely to carry a weapon, join a gang or be involved in fights.
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Oct 31, 2011 |
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Headaches take toll on soldiers
Troops evacuated from Iraq and Afghanistan with headaches unlikely to return to duty; heavy helmets a major factor Headaches, a virtually universal human complaint at one time or another, are among the top reasons for medic ...
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Oct 18, 2011 |
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Causes of Gulf War Illness are complex and vary by deployment area: study
Gulf War Illness (GWI) -- the chronic health condition that affects about one in four military veterans of the 1991 Gulf War -- appears to be the result of several factors, which differed in importance depending upon the ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 19, 2011 |
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Almost one third of Iraq/Afghanistan women veterans with PTSD report military sexual trauma
Thirty-one percent of women veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan who were diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder reported military sexual trauma (MST), in contrast to one percent of men with PTSD, according to a study ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 15, 2011 |
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Study links low DHA levels to suicide risk among U.S. military personnel
(Medical Xpress) -- A new study suggests that low levels of the highly unsaturated omega-3 essential fattyacids, in particular DHA, may be associated with increased risk of suicide. Researchers at the Uniformed Services University ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 25, 2011 |
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Suicide risk high for war veterans in college, study finds
Nearly half of college students who are U.S. military veterans reported thinking of suicide and 20 percent said they had planned to kill themselves, rates significantly higher than among college students in general, according ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 04, 2011 |
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Adolescent boys among those most affected by Washington state parental military deployment
In 2007, nearly two million children in the United States had at least one parent serving in the military. Military families and children, in particular, suffer from mental health problems related to long deployments.
Health
Jul 21, 2011 |
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Length of parental military deployment associated with children's mental health diagnoses
Children with a parent who was deployed in the U.S. military efforts Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) for longer periods were more likely than children whose parents did not deploy to receive ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 04, 2011 |
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IOM report calls for cultural transformation of attitudes toward pain and its prevention and management
Every year, at least 116 million adult Americans experience chronic pain, a condition that costs the nation between $560 billion and $635 billion annually, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine. Much of this pain ...
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Jun 29, 2011 |
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