http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. (AP) -- Two days before shipping off to war, Marine Pfc. Jesse Sheets sat inside a trailer in the Mojave Desert, his gaze fixed on a computer that flashed a rhythmic pulse of contrasting images. http://www.physorg.com/news177919314.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:20:01 EST news177919314 A research team at Harvard Medical School estimates 2,266 U.S. military veterans under the age of 65 died last year because they lacked health insurance and thus had reduced access to care. That figure is more than 14 times the number of deaths (155) suffered by U.S. troops in Afghanistan in 2008, and more than twice as many as have died (911 as of Oct. 31) since the war began in 2001. http://www.physorg.com/news177079796.html Medicine & Health Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:00:02 EST news177079796 In the first study to look at sex-specific pain prevalence in Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF) Veterans, researchers from the VA Connecticut Healthcare System and the Yale University School of Medicine found women Veterans had a lower prevalence of pain than male counterparts returning from the conflicts. Approximately 60% of OEF/OIF Veterans were assessed with pain during the study period. Full details of the study appear in the October issue of Pain Medicine, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Academy of Pain Medicine, the Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists and the International Spine Intervention Society. http://www.physorg.com/news175348000.html Medicine & Health Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:49:25 EST news175348000 (AP) -- Standing at the edge of a clear pond in the Idaho mountains on a cold day in early October, former U.S. Marine Angel Gomez made a timid cast with his fly fishing rod. http://www.physorg.com/news175141984.html Medicine & Health Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:33:55 EST news175141984 (AP) -- Inspections show that Veterans Department medical facilities have made significant progress on fixing endoscopic procedure problems that potentially exposed thousands to HIV and other infections. http://www.physorg.com/news172498256.html Medicine & Health Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:30:03 EST news172498256 A new report from the Institute of Medicine finds suggestive but limited evidence that exposure to Agent Orange and other herbicides used during the Vietnam War is associated with an increased chance of developing ischemic heart disease and Parkinson's disease for Vietnam veterans. The report is the latest in a congressionally mandated series by the IOM that every two years reviews the evidence about the health effects of these herbicides and a type of dioxin -- TCDD -- that contaminated some of the defoliants. http://www.physorg.com/news167659619.html Medicine & Health Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:20:03 EST news167659619 (PhysOrg.com) -- Oxford researchers have reported results from a study of death and cancer rates in military veterans who took part in the Ministry of Defence`s Human Volunteer Programme at Porton Down between 1941 and 1989. http://www.physorg.com/news157220624.html Medicine & Health Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:25:33 EST news157220624 A new study by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers is the first to pinpoint damage inside the brains of veterans suffering from Gulf War syndrome - a finding that links the illness to chemical exposures and may lead to diagnostic tests and treatments. http://www.physorg.com/news157018337.html Medicine & Health Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:12:43 EST news157018337 Veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are more likely to have metabolic syndrome than veterans without PTSD, according to a study led by Pia Heppner, Ph.D., psychologist with the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Veterans Affairs of San Diego, VA Center of Excellence for Stress and Mental Health (CESAMH). The study will be published online January 8 by the journal BMC Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news150614020.html Medicine & Health Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:13:40 EST news150614020 Researchers at Southern Methodist University in Dallas are pioneering the use of spatial statistical modeling to analyze brain scan data from Persian Gulf War veterans, aiming to pinpoint specific areas of the their brains affected by Gulf War Syndrome. http://www.physorg.com/news146320151.html Medicine & Health Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:29:10 EST news146320151 At least one in four of the 697,000 U.S. veterans of the 1991 Gulf War suffer from Gulf War illness, a condition caused by exposure to toxic chemicals, including pesticides and a drug administered to protect troops against nerve gas, and no effective treatments have yet been found, a federal panel of scientific experts and veterans concludes in a landmark report released Monday. http://www.physorg.com/news146144650.html Medicine & Health Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:44:10 EST news146144650 "The increasing number of veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) raises the risk of domestic violence and its consequences on families and children in communities across the United States," says Monica Matthieu, Ph.D., an expert on veteran mental health and an assistant professor of social work at Washington University in St. Louis. http://www.physorg.com/news145214915.html Medicine & Health Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:28:35 EST news145214915 (PhysOrg.com) -- Popular cholesterol-busting drugs -- statins -- appear to lower men's prostate-specific antigen (PSA) values along with their cholesterol levels, according to researchers in the Duke Prostate Center and the Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center. But whether the drugs prevent prostate cancer growth or just mask it is not known yet. http://www.physorg.com/news144427722.html Medicine & Health Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:48:42 EST news144427722 Deployed peacekeeping veterans with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have significant impairments in health-related quality of life according to research by Dr. J. Donald Richardson of The University of Western Ontario and his co-investigators. http://www.physorg.com/news142090828.html Medicine & Health Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:40:28 EST news142090828 Researchers from Duke University, the University of Cincinnati and the Durham Veterans Administration Medical Center are hoping to find a geographical pattern to help explain why 1991 Gulf War veterans contracted the fatal neurological disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) at twice the normal rate during the decade after the conflict. http://www.physorg.com/news135869639.html Medicine & Health Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:33:59 EST news135869639