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Whether combat or peacekeeping, PTSD impacts veterans' well-being
Oct 01, 2008 |
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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 ...
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Post-traumatic stress disorder primary suicide risk factor for veterans
Aug 25, 2009 |
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August 25, 2009—Researchers working with Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans have found that post-traumatic stress disorder, the current most common mental disorder among veterans returning from service in the Middle East, ...
Researchers Find Group Therapy Benefits Homeless Veterans Prone to Violence
Sep 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study examines the rates of violence among homeless veterans and their partners and the significant results of group therapy.
Metabolic syndrome a risk for veterans with PTSD
Jan 08, 2009 |
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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 ...
Over 2,200 veterans died in 2008 due to lack of health insurance
Nov 10, 2009 |
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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 ...
Women veterans less likely to report pain than male counterparts
Oct 21, 2009 |
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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 ...
Long-term effects of the Human Volunteer Programme at Porton Down
Mar 25, 2009 |
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(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 ...
VA to ease way for vets to get stress disability
Oct 14, 2009 |
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(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 ...
VA: 5th HIV case linked to unsterile equipment
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
May 03, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A fifth patient has tested positive for HIV, and seven more tested positive for hepatitis after being exposed to contaminated medical equipment at three Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals, the agency said Friday.
Gulf War veterans display abnormal brain response to specific chemicals
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 23, 2009 |
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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 ...
Deep brain mapping to isolate evidence of Gulf War syndrome
Nov 19, 2008 |
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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 ...
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