Veterans Affairs Doctor Has Serious Doubts About Women In Combat
Source: BusinessInsider
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-04-12 07:32:01 -0700 | health-news
Less than 10 days after two more female Marines were dropped from infantry officer training, a Veterans Affairs doctor has expressed doubt on the long-term physical effects of women in the infantry. I'm certain the majority of women doing this...
How stressed are you really?
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-04-11 21:30:57 -0700 | health-news
Instead, we seem to be preoccupied with managing the effects of stress. The message from everyone doctors, personal trainers, psychotherapists, even our mothers is that if we can fix our stressed-out selves, we can handle pretty much anything. It's a...
The New York Times gets it wrong on health IT
Source: Kevin M.D. Medical Blog
Hīt :: Iraq | updated 2013-04-11 04:26:08 -0700 | health-news
T April 11, 2013 I'm well aware that a good fraction of the people in this country spend their lives furious at the New York Times ...I love the Grey Lady ; it would be high on my list of things...
Cambridge College School of Management Program Hosts a Panel Discussion On Trends and Opportunities ...
Source: PR Newswire
Hīt :: Iraq | updated 2013-04-10 07:47:34 -0700 | health-news
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, along with over $11 billion in incentive payments paid to Medicare and Medicaid providers through the Meaningful Use program, have transformed the health care and HIT landscape. Following his presentation, human resource professionals...
US ammo manufacturers running full tilt, with no end in sight for heightened consumer demand
Source: Natural News
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-04-10 03:47:52 -0700 | health-news
Gun owners, shooting enthusiasts or just anyone seeking to hoard ammunition like the Department of Homeland Security is having a rough time finding any to buy, let alone stockpile...To be sure, it is the dramatic surge in consumer (and government)...
Monitoring stress-related use of antipsychotic drugs in the military
Source: SharpBrains
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-04-09 07:14:34 -0700 | health-news
Worse, according to data not reported on until now, the military evidently responded to stress that afflicts soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan primarily by drugging soldiers on the front linesThe trouble is that we have no idea whether it's effective...
Fund helps heal the unseen wounds of war
Source: Fox News
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-04-09 04:32:33 -0700 | health-news
Published April 09, 2013 FoxNews.com Thousands of wounded U.S. soldiers return from war each year...And the result is painfully apparent: Every day in the United States, one service member commits suicide. Senior managing health editor of Foxnews.com, Dr. Manny Alvarez,...
‘Iraq's environmental catastrophe worse than Hiroshima'
Source: Russia Today
Basra :: Iraq | updated 2013-04-08 20:20:58 -0700 | health-news
Iraq's environmental catastrophe worse than Hiroshima' Ten years ago, invading American troops and their allies deliberately tested all sorts of weapons, contaminating Iraqi the environment for hundreds of years to come and reducing citizens' life expectancies to 30 years, an...
How Big Pharma profits from war
Source: War In Context
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-04-08 07:10:04 -0700 | health-news
Last year, more active-duty soldiers committed suicide than died in battle. This fact has been reported so often that it has almost lost its jolting force...Worse, according to data not reported on until now, the military evidently responded to stress...
Pentagon struggles with high cost of health care
Source: Arizona Republic
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-04-08 01:09:28 -0700 | health-news
Despite dire warnings from three defense secretaries about the uncontrollable cost, Congress has repeatedly rebuffed Pentagon efforts to establish higher out-of-pocket fees and enrollment costs for military family and retiree health care as an initial step in addressing a harsh...
Recent war vets face hiring obstacle: PTSD bias
Source: USA Today
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-04-06 06:49:11 -0700 | health-news
EDT April 6, 2013 The Army is launching a "Hire a Veteran" campaign aimed at debunking the myth that all combat veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are somehow emotionally damaged. Military leaders and veterans' advocates worry about hidden...
America is experiencing a crisis of grief
Source: Kevin M.D. Medical Blog
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-04-06 04:19:09 -0700 | health-news
But we don't have to dust off the Dow Jones or the S&P, or even wonder what the Feds are going to do about Medicare, taxes, the debt ceiling or Afghanistan. All we have to is understand the five stages...
Editorial Board: Federal dollars for mapping the brain
Source: Washington Post
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-04-05 17:50:25 -0700 | health-news
Right now, Dr. Collins noted, scientists can track the activity of only a small number of neurons at a time. One possible avenue of research is developing technologies that can observe thousands of neurons simultaneously, even hundreds of thousands. Dr....
Budget calls for 4 percent spending increase at VA
Source: Virginian-Pilot Online
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-04-05 22:16:05 -0700 | health-news
President Barack Obama will propose increasing discretionary spending at the Department of Veterans Affairs by 4 percent with much of the additional money going to attack a backlog of pending disability claims that officials acknowledge could get worse before it...
High-ranking adviser to Joint Chiefs of Staff visits vets at Hines VA Hospital
Source: Daily Southtown
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-04-05 01:05:41 -0700 | health-news
Bryan Battaglia, the senior enlisted leader of the Joint Forces Command, chats with U.S...Joel Tavera, who was severely wounded in Iraq, during a tour of Edward Hines Jr...Jeff Cagle~For Sun-Times Media Updated: April 5, 2013 2:38AM As they finished their...
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