Psychology & Psychiatry

Researchers study married combat veterans' leisure habits

Penn State researchers are studying leisure in the lives of married Iraq and Afghanistan veterans as a first step to ultimately designing an intervention program for veterans returning home after deployment.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Mass polio vaccine campaign launched after Iraq case

Authorities launched a massive polio vaccination campaign on Sunday in Iraq, Syria and Egypt after health officials found a suspected case of the virus in a young boy near Baghdad.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

WHO starts emergency polio talks

The World Health Organization announced on Monday that it had convened emergency talks amid rising concern over polio after cases were discovered in Afghanistan, Iraq and Equatorial Guinea.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Iraq confirms four more novel coronavirus cases

Iraq on Tuesday confirmed four new cases of the novel coronavirus in an Iraqi family returning from neighbouring Iran, bringing its total number of diagnosed infections to five.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Iraq reports first suspected polio case since 2000

Iraq's health ministry said Wednesday it had found its first suspected polio case in 14 years, which could have originated in neighbouring Syria where confirmed cases have sparked a region-wide alert.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Iraq records 12,000 COVID infections in new daily high

Iraq has recorded 12,180 COVID infections over the past 24 hours, the health ministry said on Monday, the highest number detected in a single day so far in the pandemic.

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