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Gulf War veterans display abnormal brain response to specific chemicals
A new study by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers is the first to pinpoint damage inside the brains of veterans suffering from Gulf War syndrome - a finding that links the illness to chemical exposures ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 23, 2009 |
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Over 2,200 veterans died in 2008 due to lack of health insurance
A research team at Harvard Medical School estimates 2,266 U.S. military veterans under the age of 65 died last year because they lacked health insurance and thus had reduced access to care. That figure is ...
Nov 10, 2009 |
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Many veterans not getting enough treatment for PTSD
Although the Department of Veteran Affairs is rolling out treatments nationwide as fast as possible to adequately provide for newly diagnosed PTSD patients, there are still significant barriers to veterans getting a full ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 10, 2010 |
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Return home from war not always peaceful for young vets
When young servicemen and women return home from a tour of duty, their family and friends breathe a sigh of relief, knowing their loved ones finally are safe and sound. New research, however, shows that is not always the ...
May 03, 2010 |
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Sociologist finds combat veterans face more lifelong socioeconomic challenges
From the many images sent home from foreign battlefields over the last several decades, Americans have viewed the plight of their country's combat-weary veterans as stark and often iconic scenes that seem somehow frozen in ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 02, 2010 |
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Hippocampus smaller in veterans not recovered from PTSD
(PhysOrg.com) -- The hippocampus, a brain area associated with memory and stress, was about six percent smaller on average in veterans with current chronic PTSD than in veterans who had recovered from PTSD, in a study conducted ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 16, 2011 |
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Limited data suggest possible association between Agent Orange exposure
A new report from the Institute of Medicine finds suggestive but limited evidence that exposure to Agent Orange and other herbicides used during the Vietnam War is associated with an increased chance of developing ischemic ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jul 24, 2009 |
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Metabolic syndrome a risk for veterans with PTSD
Veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are more likely to have metabolic syndrome than veterans without PTSD, according to a study led by Pia Heppner, Ph.D., psychologist with the University of California, San ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 08, 2009 |
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Racial discrimination in Union Army pensions detailed by new study
Twenty years after the Civil War ended, the 179,000 African-American veterans of the Union Army saw racial inequality widen as the Pension Bureau left most of them out of a rapid expansion.
Feb 10, 2010 |
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Obama: More post-traumatic stress help for vets
(AP) -- The government is taking what President Barack Obama calls "a long overdue step" to aid veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, making it easier for them to receive federal benefits.
Jul 12, 2010 |
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Emotional effects of heavy combat can be lifelong for veterans
The trauma from hard combat can devastate veterans until old age, even as it influences others to be wiser, gentler and more accepting in their twilight years, a new University of Florida study finds.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 06, 2010 |
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Big VA study shows surgery checklist saves lives
(AP) -- Which hip is being repaired? Is this the right anesthesia? Do we have all the right surgery tools?
Oct 19, 2010 |
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Veterans with bipolar disorder may have increased risk of suicide
Veterans diagnosed with any psychiatric illness appear to have an elevated risk of suicide, and men with bipolar disorder and women with substance abuse disorders may have a particularly high risk, according to a report in ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 01, 2010 |
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Casualties of war: Wounded veterans more likely to die of coronary heart disease
War-time stress may lead to an increased risk death by coronary heart disease in later life. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Health Services Research surveyed a cohort of 55 year old Finnis ...
Jan 27, 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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