News tagged with war zones
Britain launches DRC medical programme
Britain is to launch a £179 million five-year healthcare programme in the Democratic Republic of Congo which it hopes will reach six million people, Foreign Secretary William Hague announced on Tuesday.
Health
Mar 27, 2013 |
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Embattled childhoods may be the real trauma for soldiers with PTSD
New research on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in soldiers challenges popular assumptions about the origins and trajectory of PTSD, providing evidence that traumatic experiences in childhood - not combat - may predict ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 19, 2012 |
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Yoga, deep breathing used to treat soldiers' stress
Rich Low dreamed of Iraq long after he returned home from the war.
Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 27, 2012 |
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War is not necessarily the cause of post-traumatic stress disorder
Recent research carried out at Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University, shows that surprisingly, the majority of soldiers exhibiting symptoms of post-traumatic stress syndrome were suffering from poor mental health ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 17, 2012 |
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Improve care for veterans with PTSD: report
(HealthDay) -- Access to care for U.S. military service members and veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) must improve, says an Institute of Medicine report released Friday that also calls for ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 13, 2012 |
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Effect of chronic exposure to chemicals used as weapons, pesticides under study
Soldiers in war zones and farmers tending their fields can have in common chronic exposure to chemicals that impact their nerves.
Medical research
Apr 18, 2012 |
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Army: PTSD treatable; some diagnosed return to war
(AP) -- It is still not known if the soldier accused of killing 17 Afghans was ever diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder - but even if he had been, that alone would not have prevented him from being sent back to ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 23, 2012 |
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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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Commonwealth leaders raise polio vaccine spending
(AP) -- Commonwealth government leaders meeting in Australia agreed Saturday to step up efforts to eradicate polio worldwide, despite the Afghanistan war setting back vaccination efforts there and in neighboring ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 29, 2011 |
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