Posts Tagged ‘veterans’
Iraq War: 10 years, 190,000 lives, $2.2 trillion
BROWN / BOSTON U. (US) — The Iraq War has killed more than 190,000 people and will cost the US $2.2 trillion, far exceeding initial 2002 estimates of $50 to $60 billion, according to a new analysis. Continue…
Friday, March 15, 2013 10:09 - 6 Comments
Health & Medicine - Feb 27, 2013 12:44 - 0 Comments
Veterans taking big doses of reflux drugs
NORTHWESTERN (US) — Veterans diagnosed with gastric reflux are often prescribed high doses of proton pump inhibitors and take them for too long, a new study shows. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Dec 3, 2012 12:00 - 1 Comment
Athlete brains hint at dangers of hard hits
BOSTON U. (US) —Researchers studying the brains of men—many former athletes who developed a degenerative condition before dying—have for the first time described the four progressive stages of an illness known as CTE. (more…)
Society & Culture - Nov 21, 2012 13:28 - 0 Comments
To vote, injured vets need better access
GEORGIA TECH (US) — Inaccessible polling places and complicated ballot design may make voting difficult for some of the more than 50,000 men and women wounded in military service in Iraq and Afghanistan. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Nov 2, 2012 12:21 - 3 Comments
Are psych drugs overused at VA nursing homes?
U. PITTSBURGH (US) — More than one in four older veterans that live in VA nursing homes take antipsychotic medications, and more than 40 percent of them have no documented evidence-based reason for doing so. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Oct 31, 2012 12:42 - 0 Comments
How to measure prosthetic arm training
BROWN (US) — A new measure of how well an adult amputee is able to perform everyday tasks with a prosthetic arm will help assess progress during training. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jul 26, 2012 10:35 - 0 Comments
New risk factors for chronic skin cancer
BROWN (US) — New analysis suggests that for some people with high risk factors, basal cell carcinoma is a chronic disease. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jul 13, 2012 13:52 - 1 Comment
$13 billion: US pays twice for veterans’ care
UC DAVIS (US) — The US government made about $13 billion in double payments for health-care services to veterans who were simultaneously enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans from 2004-2009. (more…)
Society & Culture - Jun 27, 2012 11:46 - 1 Comment
Survey ties poverty and violence among veterans
UNC-CHAPEL HILL (US) — A survey of US military veterans finds that those who didn’t have enough money to cover basic needs were more likely to report aggressive behavior than veterans with PTSD. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Feb 28, 2012 12:22 - 6 Comments
Will the Affordable Care Act hurt veterans?
UC DAVIS (US) — An expert says that veterans may suffer unintended negative consequences of the Affordable Care Act. (more…)
Society & Culture - Feb 16, 2012 16:07 - 0 Comments
After military service, a shift in personality
WASHINGTON U.-ST.LOUIS (US) — Military service, even without combat, has a lingering effect on personality, and may make veterans less agreeable. (more…)
Society & Culture - Aug 18, 2011 11:18 - 0 Comments
Vets’ best weapon: Giving back
WASHINGTON U.-ST. LOUIS (US) — Disabled veterans who continue to give back on a volunteer basis improve their employment prospects, further their education, and become better role models for their children. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Apr 7, 2011 16:26 - 0 Comments
Racial gaps persist in VA health care
BROWN (US) — Despite dramatic overall improvements at Veterans Affairs medical centers, health outcomes of African-Americans remains at a level below that of whites. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jul 12, 2010 11:22 - 47 Comments
Agent Orange effects linger for Vietnam vets
U. BUFFALO (US)—Vietnam War-era veterans exposed to Agent Orange appear to have significantly more Graves’ disease, a thyroid disorder, than veterans with no exposure, a new study shows. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Mar 3, 2010 12:26 - 0 Comments
Known drugs may help veterans with PTSD
U. TEXAS (US)—Drugs that have shown success in clinical trials for Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s diseases may also be useful in treating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). (more…)
Health & Medicine - Mar 11, 2009 15:58 - 1 Comment
‘Rewired’ Guitar Hero game helps amputees heal
JOHNS HOPKINS (US)—What do you get when you mix Nintendo’s Wii video game system with rehabilitation therapy? “Wii-habilitation”—a combination that helps patients cope with the often excruciating pain of physical therapy. Now two engineers in the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory’s National Security Technology Department have cranked that concept up a notch. (more…)
