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Long-term effects of the Human Volunteer Programme at Porton Down

Long-term effects of the Human Volunteer Programme at Porton Down

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(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 ...





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Whether combat or peacekeeping, PTSD impacts veterans' well-being

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 01, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 ...


Over 2,200 veterans died in 2008 due to lack of health insurance

Over 2,200 veterans died in 2008 due to lack of health insurance

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

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 ...


Young ex-servicemen at increased risk of suicide

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Young men who have served in the British Armed Forces are up to three times more likely to take their own lives than their civilian counterparts, research published tomorrow (March 3) has found.


Women veterans less likely to report pain than male counterparts

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 ...


Growing problem for veterans: Domestic violence

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 06, 2008 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

"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, ...


Metabolic syndrome a risk for veterans with PTSD

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 ...


Army officials say war concussions overdiagnosed

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(AP) -- Mild brain injuries - once considered an under-recognized problem in returning military troops - are being overdiagnosed because the government is using soft criteria instead of hard medical evidence, an Army doctor ...


Researchers probe geographical ties to ALS cases among 1991 Gulf War veterans

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 21, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 ...


Researchers Find Group Therapy Benefits Homeless Veterans Prone to Violence

Researchers Find Group Therapy Benefits Homeless Veterans Prone to Violence

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study examines the rates of violence among homeless veterans and their partners and the significant results of group therapy.


VA to ease way for vets to get stress disability

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Female soldiers and others in dangerous roles that once were behind front lines in Iraq and Afghanistan have long complained about how hard it is to prove their combat experience when applying for disability due ...



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