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Bush Administration Allows Returning Soldiers to Disintegrate, Say Critics

... line, and Fort Bragg, N.C. Army posts with heavy war deployments told task force members that it routinely fields complaints about the difficulty in locating mental health specialists who accept Tricare. "Unfortunately, in some of our communities ... we are maxed out on the available providers," sa...

Best Armed Forces Hospital Trophy Goes to Northern Command Hospital

...Medical Services (AFMS) over the years both during war and peace. He said AFMS has also brought laurels to the nation whenever deployed in UN or humanitarian missions in various countries. Shri Antony said the swiftness with which medical relief was despatched for earthquake victims of Indonesia has be...

Bush Isolated on Climate Change Heading into G8

...are also attending. His standing undercut by the war in Iraq, Bush used the pre-summit week to move ahe...an diplomat Robert Zoellick to replace former Iraq war planner Paul Wolfowitz as the World Bank president. But while European Union leaders have been wil...

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

...ng a mysterious set of ailments, often called gulf war illnesses, with problems including persistent fati...h. Dr. White and other researchers studied 26 gulf war veterans, half of whom were exposed to the gases, according to a Defense Department modeling of the ...

Americans Optimistic About the War on Cancer

...ur nation, Americans are very optimistic about the war against cancer. In fact, according to a recent na...%) believe the scientific community is winning the war against cancer. "As an organization researching new options to fight cancer, Abbott is hopeful th...

Suicide Among Returning US Soldiers on the Rise

...sident Bush might make a show of laying wreaths on war memorials and wax eloquent on the services of soldiers in the war on terror. But post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is taking a severe toll on the countrys soldier...

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

...e often than the military parent. The stress of war extends beyond the soldier to the family left behind, Rentz said. Although family support services are available in each branch of military services to assist troops and their families in preparing for and coping with family separations, Rentz sai...

Labor's Indigenous Health Plan A Good Start

...forward to witnessing a policy and funding bidding war on Indigenous health between Prime Minister John Howard and Mr Rudd over the coming months, Dr Haikerwal said....

Sacked Employee Says Stress Led to His Sex Addiction

A Vietnam war veteran is claiming an interesting manifestation o...er the American with Disabilities Act, saying the war stress had turned him into a sex addict, and with the development of the internet, an internet addic...

Moves To Improve War Veterans Health Taken

... health care bills that would expand free care for war veterans, establish brain injury research centers and make chiropractic care more accessible, among other things. Under one bill, free health care for returning troops would be expanded from two to five years. The bill, which is geared toward veteran...

Scientists in Britain Create Artificial Blood

... easier to store and could be a huge advantage in war zones. The new artificial blood is made up of plastic molecules that have an iron atom at their core, like haemoglobin, that can carry oxygen through the body. The researchers say they were looking for extra funding to develop a final prototype t...

Army Training Regimen Brutal in US, Needs Overhauling

...hat happened at Walter Reed to soldiers injured in war is not shocking at all if one ponders what happens at Army posts to soldiers injured in basic training, says JoAnn Wypijewski . Basic training is one of those regimens of cruelty that people have come to accept as normal. The Army may claim to hav...

Red Cross renders emergency relief efficiently

...ervices to the soldiers injured in the first world war 1914. Sadly, most of them were Indians and they had no medical attention,' says B. Chandrashekar, a 80-year-old-volunteer. 'There was just a branch of the St. John Ambulance Association. And it could not cope with the huge casualty,' he said. In M...

Capricious Climate in Indonesia Adds to Farmers Woe

...d undisturbed for generations, even in the face of war or economic disturbances. But now, it appears that something odd has struck Indonesia. According to one farmer, "The harvests have become irregular. Normally we harvest two to three times a year, but it depends on the weather. We need to wait for...

United Kingdom: Maternity Units Exposed! Leaves Much to Be Desired

... care in hospitals. Measures need to be taken on a war footing to save the day for patients availing care at such units....

Gulf War Veterans Exhibit Memory Impairment

A US government funded study reveals the war veterans who have come back after combat in the gulf are exhibiting memory impairment. Due to the exposure to chemicals and other harmful substances, there is a decreased volume of two brain regions that are closely linked to learning and memory. ...

War Spreading AIDS a Myth-UNHCR

...bility and mobility of populations recovering from war may create an environment conducive to the spread of HIV....

World Bank Loans Kenya 80 Million Dollars to Boost War on AIDS

...euros) in additional funding towards the country's war against the scourge, the statement added. The NACC said Tuesday the rate of HIV/AIDS infections in the country of nearly 35 million fell from 6.1 percent in 2004 to 5.9 percent in 2005. A shift in sexual habits and the more widespread use of cond...

Dengue Deaths Sweeping Cambodia Highlight Healthcare Failures

...ic institutions is struggling after years of civil war and neglect. "The total level of public financing for health is simply too low," the World Bank said in its 2007 equality and development report, which found that rural Cambodians still lacked significant access to healthcare. The government spen...

US Trying Hard to Provide Proper Treatment for Wounded Soldiers

... mangled minds. The signature weapon of the Iraq war the improvised explosive device, or IED has left...ism sometimes have no visible wounds but a fog of war in their minds. They can be addled, irritable, depressed and unaware they are impaired. Only an es...

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