News tagged with combat exposures


Reserve, National Guard at higher risk of alcohol-related problems after returning from combat

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 12, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Younger service members and Reserve and National Guard combat personnel returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are at increased risk of new-onset heavy drinking, binge drinking and other alcohol-related problems, ...





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Combat exposure may increase likelihood of newly reported high blood pressure

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A survey of American servicemen and women who reported experiencing multiple combat exposures were more likely to self-report high blood pressure than military members not exposed to combat, according to research reported ...


Stay focused: Researchers sharpen photographs by capturing multiple low-quality images

Stay focused: Researchers sharpen photographs by capturing multiple low-quality images

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (9) | comments 14

(PhysOrg.com) -- For photographers, it's sometimes difficult to keep both the foreground and background of an image in focus. Focusing somewhere between the two can ensure that neither is blurry; but neither ...


Funeral industry workers exposed to formaldehyde face higher risk of leukemia

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Long durations of exposure to formaldehyde used for embalming in the funeral industry were associated with an increased risk of death from myeloid leukemia, according to a new study published online November 20 in the Journal of ...


Secondhand smoke exposure worse for toddlers, obese children

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created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Toddlers and obese children suffer more than other youth when exposed to secondhand smoke, according to research presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2009.


American Cancer Society calls for new strategies to monitor exposure to environmental carcinogens

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new report from an American Cancer Society scientific advisory subcommittee on cancer and the environment says exposure to carcinogens should be minimized or eliminated whenever feasible, and calls for new strategies to ...


Dutch PhD student develops device to combat noise

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (16) | comments 17

Johan Wesselink of the University of Twente, The Netherlands, has developed a device to actively combat noise nuisance. This invention curtails sound waves and vibrations by producing anti-noise. The researcher is confident ...


New study finds high rates of childhood exposure to violence and abuse in US

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A new study from the University of New Hampshire finds that U.S. children are routinely exposed to even more violence and abuse than has been previously recognized, with nearly half experiencing a physical assault in the ...


Gulf War research panel finds 1 in 4 veterans suffers from illness caused by toxic exposure

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 17, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

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 ...


Exposure to both traffic, indoor pollutants puts some kids at higher risk for asthma later

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created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New research presents strong evidence that the "synergistic" effect of early-life exposure to both outdoor traffic-related pollution and indoor endotoxin causes more harm to developing lungs than one or the other exposure ...


'Hygiene hypothesis' challenged: Day care doubles early respiratory problems

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created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 1

New research hints that the common belief that kids who go to daycare have lower rates of asthma and allergy later in life might be nothing more than wishful thinking. While young children in daycare definitely do get more ...



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