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South India to Have Modern Military Hospitals

... these hospitals were given less attention because troops were primarily deployed on the borders of northern states. But since the number of ex-servicemen, their dependents and families were increasing, it was decided to upgrade them. "Besides, the upgrading will be useful during any unforeseen natural di...

Soldiers Readying to Fight Stress With Yoga

... recourse to yoga to relieve stress// that affects troops posted in inhospitable terrain and in insurgency hit areas. A select group of army and paramilitary personnel were trained here recently in a six-day yoga camp conducted by Swami Ramdev to enable them conduct special sessions among their colleague...

First Treatment to Directly Target Tumor Blood Supply

...e between laying siege to a village vs. sending in troops with heavy artillery. Current anti-angiogenic approaches starve the blood vessels of growth signals, but with J591, one directly targets a lethal blow right at the tumor blood supply." As its name implies, PSMA was first spotted in prostate cancers...

DU Test Finds UK Troops Uranium Free

...Uranium// Oversight Board to detect exposure of UK troops to depleted uranium (DU) during the 1991 Gulf Conflict. Randall Parrish, Professor of Isotope Geology, developed the test with Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Axel Gerdes, who now works at the University of Frankfurt, Germany, and his colleague Matt Hors...

Armed Forces Introduce Yoga, Counselling to Counter Stress

... posted to the northern and eastern commands where troops are engaged in counter-insurgency operations. In view of this, there was no proposal to engage NGOs for stress management as the armed forces "have enough infrastructure and expertise to handle the problem", the minister maintained. The armed f...

Military Healthcare Lacks Compassion, Say US Soldiers

..., was ill-prepared to deal with growing numbers of troops suffering from traumatic brain injury or post-traumatic stress disorder, it said. The report also faulted the Army’s complex disability ratings which, critics contend, are manipulated to limit disability compensation to wounded soldiers. RM/V...

Numerous Defense Personnel Granted Early Retirement Due to Mental Illness

... posted to the northern and eastern commands where troops are engaged in counter-insurgency operations. The armed forces witnessed 146 suicides in 2006, with 120 in the army, 24 in the air force and two in the navy and the coast guard. There were 120 suicides, including 15 failed attempts in 2005. These...

Row in Australia Over Mental Health Support Available for Returning Soldiers

...nly too willing to stand on the docks and farewell troops to foreign wars but when soldiers come back suffering serious long-term illnesses, the politicians are nowhere to be seen." Dr Marr says some soldiers suffering from mental health problems such as post traumatic stress are sometimes dealing with th...

Malaria Claims 25 Lives in Assam

... the disease might spread among hundreds of Indian troops deployed along the Indo-Bhutan border for counter-insurgency operations. "We are providing soldiers with specially designed medicated mosquito nets and insect repellents as a precaution against malaria," an army commander said. In the last five y...

One Third of US Troops Suffer from Mental Health Problems

... General Donald Arthur said more than one-third of troops and veterans currently suffer from problems such a...ting the Army's Fort Carson in Colorado where some troops have said their pleas for mental health care went unanswered or were met with ridicule. In its rep...

US Army to Recruit More Psychiatrists to Counsel Stressed Out Soldiers

...ies over recent months that has found services for troops have been inadequate. Ritchie said long and repe...long it would be going on," she said. Surveys of troops in Iraq have shown that 15 percent to 20 percent of Army soldiers have signs and symptoms of post-tr...

Armed Forces Enroll Wives in Fighting HIV/AIDS

...youthful, exuberant and aggressive attitude of our troops combined with the long separation from families and high mobility has compounded the risks faced by them," Admiral Singh said in his inaugural address to the two-day workshop....

US Veteran Benefit System Needs Overhauling

...up decades ago and needs urgent upgrading. "With troops being injured nearly every day, the VA's system for evaluating and rating former service members' disabilities should be as up to date as possible," said Lonnie R. Bristow, former president of the American Medical Association. "Right now, the ratin...

Bush Administration Allows Returning Soldiers to Disintegrate, Say Critics

...rural areas, where many National Guard and Reserve troops and their families live. To avoid the hassles o... performed. Psychologists who treat active duty troops are paid 66 percent of what Tricare views as the customary rate. So a psychologist eligible for a cu...

Army to Conduct Psychological Tests During Recruits to Curb Suicides

... posted to the northern and eastern commands where troops are engaged in counter-insurgency operations. Among other steps, rotation of units and individuals has been ordered to minimise exposure to stress, and leave rules have liberalised to permit splitting of causal and annual leave....

Bush Isolated on Climate Change Heading into G8

...ano Prodi to bolster his political efforts to keep troops in Afghanistan. Bush travels on to Tirana for the first official visit to Albania by a sitting US president. He plans to meet leaders of Albania, Croatia and Macedonia to discuss their hopes of joining the NATO military alliance, and regional issue...

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

...nd a nerve-agent antidote given to roughly 250,000 troops during the Gulf War. When the roughly 700,000 deployed troops returned home, about one in seven began experiencing a mysterious set of ailments, often called gulf...

Suicide Among Returning US Soldiers on the Rise

...rans of America, says that although suicides among troops returning from the war is a significant problem, t...nse Department does track suicides, but only among troops in combat operations such as Iraq and Afghanistan and in surrounding areas. Since the war started fo...

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

..., after the U.S. started sending larger numbers of troops to Afghanistan and Iraq in 2003, rates of abuse an...on-military families. Military files indicate more troops were deployed and fewer returned home in 2003. In addition, the rate of occurrence of substantiat...

Moves To Improve War Veterans Health Taken

...gs. Under one bill, free health care for returning troops would be expanded from two to five years. The bill, which is geared toward veterans from the Persian Gulf War through present and future conflicts, aims to help those veterans who have health problems that appear years after they have completed milit...

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