Health

Climate change threatens military readiness, say experts

The growing frequency and intensity of heat waves around the globe pose "a substantial, persistent 'non-combat threat'" to military training and operations, according to experts in environmental, thermoregulatory and cardiovascular ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Why some military veterans may be more at-risk of PTSD symptoms

Service members deployed to conflict zones may be at greater risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder if they were physically, emotionally or sexually abused in childhood. This, along with other findings from a new ...

Health informatics

Pre-training in medical data: A survey

In a paper published in Machine Intelligence Research, a team of researchers summarizes a large number of related publications and the existing benchmarking in the medical domain. Notably, the survey briefly describes how ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Consumer health: Preventing osteoporosis

Osteoporosis affects approximately 10 million people in the U.S., 80% of whom are women, according to the Office on Women's Health.

Sports medicine & Kinesiology

Ready to run: What are some signs of overtraining?

We're surrounded by warning signs on roads, at work, and on packaging and equipment. Your body sends warning signs too. As your race date nears, it's tempting to pull out all the stops in your training. That makes this a ...

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