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Workplace Stress Leads to Rising Suicide Rate in Japan

Kamikaze soldiers or not, suicide rates among Japanese have generally tended to be high. Now a government study has found the number of employment-related suicides hit a record 65 in 2006, compared to 42 the previous year, Health Ministry official Junichiro Kurashige...

Surgeons Perform Nasal Reconstruction for War Veteran Using His Own Body Parts

...f the nose. Complicating Fletchers case was the soldiers damaged facial skeleton, which had little bone str...tist applied hot wax and sculpted a replica of the soldiers nose, something he has done many times before when making prosthetic noses, ears, and even eyes. The...

Toddler Infected With Rare Side Effect Of Smallpox Vaccination Recovering

...rocedures call for asking about such conditions in soldiers and their families. Vaccinia is the live virus used in smallpox vaccine. After vaccination, the body develops a resistance to vaccinia, a disease that is generally milder than smallpox, and the resistance also works against smallpox. The injection ...

Army Hospital Conducts First Multiple Organ Retrieval and Transplantation

...ver were retrieved and transplanted on two serving soldiers in Delhi. One kidney was airlifted late yesterday (Wednesday) to Mumbai, where it was transplanted (Thursday) on the wife of a serving soldier. All the recipients are doing well," the spokesman said. This was the fourth case of an organ transplant ...

Stress of Deployment Increases Risk of Child Abuse, Neglect in Military Families, UNC Study Shows

...ation at the UNC School of Public Health. Among soldiers with at least one dependent, for every one percent increase in the number of active duty soldiers departing or returning, we saw an approximately 30 percent increase in the rate of substantiated mal...

US Soldiers to Be Trained in Critical Medical Care

... kill. But the US military says it would teach its soldiers some basic instructions in saving life. No it is n...of health care." Previously, a limited number of soldiers in each unit were trained on advanced lifesaving procedures and most soldiers only received basic fi...

Suicide Among Returning US Soldiers on the Rise

... war memorials and wax eloquent on the services of soldiers in the war on terror. But post traumatic stress di...rectly into primary care clinics instead of making soldiers go to a separate mental health facility for help. Earlier this month, a Pentagon task force warned...

Activists Urge Greater Medical Support for Gulf War Veterans Exposed to Sarin Gas

...itions dump in Khamisiyah, Iraq in March 1991, the soldiers concerned did not realize what they were getting into. Only much later it was revealed they could have been exposed to the deadly sarin gas, released during the demolition. Sarin is a chemical weapon estimated to be over 500 times as toxic as cyan...

New Bacterium Discovered - Related to Cause of Trench Fever

...acterium that debilitated thousands of World War I soldiers has been isolated at UCSF from a patient who had b...trench fever, and debilitated tens of thousands of soldiers with severe leg and back pain and recurrent fevers. The new species, recently named Bartonella roc...

New Insights into Antimalarial Drug Resistance

...grams based on the toll the parasite was having on soldiers -- more U.S. soldiers died from malaria in the Pacific than from all enemy fire, Roepe said. The Germans first invented...

U.S. Army Developing a Robot to Rescue Injured Soldiers

... such as loading trucks and carrying equipment for soldiers and is expected to be ready for field testing in less than five years....

Army to Conduct Psychological Tests During Recruits to Curb Suicides

...ns. Earlier this year, army courts sentenced two soldiers to death for killing their seniors in 2006. Anothe...ues. "These combat psychologists would move with soldiers in the field to provide immediate counselling if the need arises," Mandal explained. The defence min...

Bush Administration Allows Returning Soldiers to Disintegrate, Say Critics

...ousness of the Bush administration towards its own soldiers returning from battlefields of Iraq and Afghanista... to take this?'" Roughly one-third of returning soldiers seek out mental health counseling in their first year home. They are among the 9.1 million people co...

South Africa Facing Major Economic Shutdown as Health Workers are Sacked En Masse

...s and jails was expected to be compromised as some soldiers and police officers joined in the strike. South African Police Union general secretary Les Maseng said some of their members would join the strike while soldiers, whose colleagues are being used as reserve labor in hospitals, would picket outside pa...

American Patriots Treated To Toxic Water

...or Disease Control and Prevention, reveals . The soldiers based at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina ingested water that contained around 40 times the safety limits of toxic substances according to appointed health investigators. The government disclosed these sordid details after many families gave account...

Armed Forces Enroll Wives in Fighting HIV/AIDS

...on HIV/AIDS among peer groups of about 20 wives of soldiers in the field units. The rapid spread of HIV/AIDS...before parliament last year said. 104 HIV-infected soldiers were discharged from service in 2004 alone. The workshop and the focus on Peer Group among wives o...

Ask Right Questions and Save Country from Further Healthcare Crisis: Michael Moore

...ork, the other networks," Moore said. "Those 3,500 soldiers that are dead today may not have had to die had our news media done its job. My point is that the media didn't ask the questions." Moore said he hoped that by asking questions Americans could effect change in the health-care system. In "Sicko,...

US Army to Recruit More Psychiatrists to Counsel Stressed Out Soldiers

... add about 200 mental health professionals to help soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder and other ment...q have shown that 15 percent to 20 percent of Army soldiers have signs and symptoms of post-traumatic stress, which can cause flashbacks of traumatic combat exp...

One Third of US Troops Suffer from Mental Health Problems

...s posing a serious challenge on two fronts. One, soldiers are at an ever greater risk of mental health probl...ntion and screening, rather than simply relying on soldiers to come forward on their own for treatment. It pointed out there was a stigma attached to mental h...

Migraines may Be a Symptom of Other Problems for Iraq Soldiers

...ost-traumatic stress, depression or anxiety// than soldiers who do not have migraines, according to research. The study involved 3,621 United States Army soldiers who were given a health screening questionnaire within 90 days after returning from one year of comb...

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