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US Army to Recruit More Psychiatrists to Counsel Stressed Out Soldiers

...ts and psychiatric morbidity among veterans of the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, clinical and community interventions that are directed towards these patients are needed. The military has seen a number of high-profile incidents of alleged abuse in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, including the killing...

Vaccine-Induced Autism Victims in the Thousands Will Finally Get Day in Court

...diagnosed with autism are calling attention to the conflicts of interest they believe continue to threaten the ... vaccine policy decisions at the CDC, embodies the conflicts of interest concern of parents. Dr. Offit has been a long-time defender of injecting mercury, a know...

Toolkit to Assess Reproductive Health Needs of Displaced Women

...address health needs of women affected by regional conflicts or public health emergencies," said CDC's Dr. Marianne Zotti, senior health scientist, Division of Reproductive Health, who developed the toolkit. "The resources in this toolkit will increase the ability of organizations to identify health issues, ga...

Climate Change Reorganized Tibetan Culture 700 Years Ago: Study

...start of the traditional growing season. "Water conflicts are likely to increase in the future as problems of this kind worsen," he noted....

VA Should Revise Its Methods for Evaluating PTSD in Ex-military Personnel

... being made by former service personnel of earlier conflicts as well as personnel who served in the first Gulf War and in the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. There likely will be many more claims from the latter group in the future, ...

Extinction Risk of Grazing Animals Depends on Reproductive Speed

..." she said. According to her, regional military conflicts also turn up the heat on species, as people in strife-torn areas increasingly turn to "bush meat," including hoofed animals, to supplement their diets. "Since these are large, plant-eating animals, they have a significant effect on the local ecolog...

Nurturing Our Nurses for Healthcare Par Excellence

...problems. These problems add to work place stress, conflicts and eventually trigger a burn out. Unresolved issues lead to absenteeism and low productivity, which negatively impacts the healthcare industry. On the other hand, positive work environments have been known to motivate and foster excellence in he...

Presidential Commission Wants Proper Care of Wounded Soldiers at Their Homes

...ys veterans are more likely than those of previous conflicts to suffer from polytrauma, including burns, brain injury and shrapnel from explosives, making their treatment more complicated. The health care system should also take into account the strain that puts on family members, commissioners said, and sh...

War Spreading AIDS a Myth-UNHCR

...the survey could not be universally applied to all conflicts in the world. 'Every case must be examined individually and context is very important,' said Dr. Spiegel, who heads UNHCR's HIV and AIDS unit. He added that the findings should not be interpreted to mean people should not worry about HIV in conflicts...

Bush Again Vetoes Embryonic Stem Cell Research Bill

...earch -- which often involves their destruction -- conflicts with his religious beliefs and he urged scientists to consider other alternatives. "If this legislation became law, it would compel American taxpayers for the first time in our history to support the deliberate destruction of human embryos," Bush sai...

Climatic Change Cause of Dafur Conflict-UN

...g." He says similar ecological problems are behind conflicts in other countries, including Somalia and Ivory Coast. Settled farmers and Arab nomadic herders lived in peace with each other till the drought, he wrote, but as conditions worsened, water and food shortages disrupted the peace and "evolved into th...

Around the World in 86 Days ... on Motorbike With Double-hand Transplant

...il servant, mediator and conflict manager. "Most conflicts result from a lack of information" and can be resolved around a table and with a little time," he said. In any case, this survivor bares no grudge towards his attacker, who ironically blew off both his own hands in a suicide attempt at the time of ...

Chinese Eco-tourism Causing Infanticide Among Tibetan Monkeys

...d bite wounds indicative of adult macaques. The conflicts typically began with intense competition for food in the designated feeding areas. As the animals became more aggressive, overall infant mortality rose from 14.8 percent to 54.6 percent. Frans de Waal, a leading primatologist at the Yerkes Nati...

War Trauma-hit UK Veteran Population Set to Increase

...isations, shows that, with no end in sight for the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, more and more veterans will return home suffering the effects of war trauma. The condition covers a variety of problems relating to stress and emotion, and memory, social, work and family difficulties. Dr. Hunt hopes to i...

"Alarming" Malnutrition Among Kenya Refugees: UN Agencies

... The camps are home to 237,000 refugees from the conflicts in neighbouring Somalia and Sudan, the agencies said. There are no more recent figures, as the area was hit by serious flooding late last year, causing massive destruction of infrastructure and displacing hundreds of families within the camps, they...

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