News tagged with veterans
Prostate cancer screenings at VA hospitals don't follow guidelines for elderly, study says
(Medical Xpress) -- Veterans Affairs hospitals screen elderly men with limited life expectancies for prostate cancer at surprisingly high rates, even though guidelines recommend against such screening, according ...
Jan 11, 2012 |
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Making personal health records more usable
Although personal health records are now securely accessible online to a large and growing number of individuals, little research has been conducted on opinions about their ease of use.
Jan 05, 2012 |
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Study offers new insight for preventing fear relapse after trauma
(Medical Xpress) -- In a new study, University of Michigan researchers identified brain circuits in rats that are responsible for the return of fear after it has been suppressed behaviorally.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 29, 2011 |
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Hope on the horizon for patients with post-traumatic stress disorder
Researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) are teaming up for a research project aimed at advancing the treatment of military personnel suffering from post-traumatic ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 18, 2011 |
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'I was an E-4.' Cutting jargon from resumes helps veterans find civilian jobs, career counselor says
University at Buffalo career counselor Holly Justice is hosting a workshop Nov. 10 to help student veterans translate their military experience into resumes that will catch the attention of civilian companies.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 09, 2011 |
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Recent veterans in college engage in riskier health behaviors
College students who have served in the U.S. conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan are more likely than their non-veteran peers to use tobacco, drink in excess and engage in other behaviors that endanger their ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 31, 2011 |
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Care for mentally ill veterans is as good or better than in other health systems, study finds
Treating U.S. veterans with mental illness and substance use disorders is more expensive than caring for veterans with other medical conditions, costing more than $12 billion in 2007, according to a new RAND Corporation study.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 19, 2011 |
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Hewlett-Packard begins Palm unit layoffs
Hewlett-Packard said Tuesday that it has begun laying off workers as part of its move to give up on the webOS mobile operating system it got when it bought Palm.
Sep 20, 2011 |
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Causes of Gulf War Illness are complex and vary by deployment area: study
Gulf War Illness (GWI) -- the chronic health condition that affects about one in four military veterans of the 1991 Gulf War -- appears to be the result of several factors, which differed in importance depending upon the ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 19, 2011 |
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Almost one third of Iraq/Afghanistan women veterans with PTSD report military sexual trauma
Thirty-one percent of women veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan who were diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder reported military sexual trauma (MST), in contrast to one percent of men with PTSD, according to a study ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 15, 2011 |
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New class of stem cell-like cells discovered offers possibility for spinal cord repair
The Allen Institute for Brain Science announced today the discovery of a new class of cells in the spinal cord that act like neural stem cells, offering a fresh avenue in the search for therapies to treat spinal cord injury ...
Sep 15, 2011 |
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Study finds chronic abnormal brain blood flow in Gulf War veterans
Blood flow abnormalities found in the brains of veterans with Gulf War illness have persisted 20 years after the war, and in some cases have gotten worse, according to a new study published online in the journal Radiology.
Sep 13, 2011 |
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Non-epileptic seizures may be misdiagnosed longer in veterans
Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures may go undiagnosed for much longer in veterans compared to civilians, according to a new study published in the September 6, 2011, print issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the Am ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 05, 2011 |
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Study: Extramarital sex and divorce more common among veterans
Veterans were significantly more likely to have ever engaged in extramarital sex and ever gotten divorced than people who were never in the military, according to new research to be presented at the 106th Annual Meeting of ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 22, 2011 |
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Disabled veterans' lives improved through participation in civic service program
Post-9/11 disabled veterans furthered their education, improved employment prospects and continued to serve their community through participating in The Mission Continues’ Fellowship Program, finds a ...
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Aug 18, 2011 |
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