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Test set to predict troops' war stress 23 Nov 2009 05:16 GMT
... out, in search of clues that might help predict who is most susceptible to post-traumatic stress disorder and how it can be prevented. Marine Lance Cpl. Greg Rivers, 20, of Sylvester, ...
Fired psychiatrist says Marines suffering from stress are getting shoddy care at Camp Lejeune 23 Nov 2009 05:57 GMT
... Bounds) Fired psychiatrist says Marines suffering from stress are getting shoddy care at Camp Lejeune ... - Marines treated at Camp Lejeune for post-traumatic stress had to undergo therapy for months ... from Iraq and Afghanistan with post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, a condition that can make ...
Man stalked public transport users 23 Nov 2009 02:11 GMT
... A MAN was drunk and suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder when he assaulted and groped seven young women who were catching public transport or ...
Treating & Predicting PTSD: Marijuana Eases PTSD, Military Experiment 23 Nov 2009 01:11 GMT
... trauma and other symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder. Israeli researchers say synthetic marijuana helped rats ... of those serving in Iraq to seek post-traumatic stress disorder treatment, U.S. researchers say. ...
Army helps vets with 'invisible wounds' find jobs 23 Nov 2009 01:13 GMT
... veteran who was nearly blown up on three occasions in Iraq, once feared that post-traumatic stress disorder and a brain injury would keep him from holding down a civilian job, despite ...

Veterans shouldn't be homeless 23 Nov 2009 03:10 GMT
... newly announced goal but cited a need to do more to diagnose and treat post-traumatic stress disorder; improve treatment for substance-abusing veterans, who comprise about a third of the homeless veterans ...
UNC's Citizen-Soldier program to focus on behavioral health 23 Nov 2009 05:15 GMT
... program has trained more than 2,000 providers to work with returning combat veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injury and their families. Waldrop said the program’s behavioral health efforts ...
Military experiment seeks to predict PTSD 22 Nov 2009 04:33 GMT
... out, in search of clues that might help predict who is most susceptible to post-traumatic stress disorder. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. — Two days before shipping off to ...
New program connects veterans with peers 22 Nov 2009 06:30 GMT
... peer-support group is one component of a new program to help those suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury. "It's not a therapy group. It's for networking, information sharing, ...
Tough judge Tucker Melancon to decide final six bizarre ferry crash claims 22 Nov 2009 09:54 GMT
... that his work-life expectancy has been shortened by five to 10 years due to post-traumatic stress disorder. He projects future loss of earnings of up to $1.2 million. Wall says he's ...

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Germany's Sleeping PTSD Crisis 22 Nov 2009 09:52 GMT
... inclination to really face the issues of post-traumatic stress faced by its troops. James Dunnigan wrote ... coming back suffering from PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder). Last year, 245 German soldiers, who had ...
Health Highlights: Nov. 22, 2009 22 Nov 2009 17:30 GMT
... genetic and other factors that may help single out soldiers most at risk for post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. A better understanding of underlying contributing causes might help reduce the incidence ...
Nov. 22, 2009 22 Nov 2009 20:11 GMT
... genetic and other factors that may help single out soldiers most at risk for post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. A better understanding of underlying contributing causes might help reduce the incidence ...
DOD task force confronts suicide 22 Nov 2009 20:16 GMT
... said his "gut feeling" is that the stress of deployments and operations tempo are factors ... history of having at least one mental disorder, and 40 percent had been to a ... That means if a former servicemember with post-traumatic stress disorder or other deployment-related mental health ...
Brain injuries on battlefield lead to medical advances at home 22 Nov 2009 06:33 GMT
... must be taken to avert death and post-traumatic epilepsy. More improvements, including blood tests that ... additional problems, including amputated limbs and post-traumatic stress disorder, their brain injuries have much in common ...
Vets, Knoxville fear losing a special bond to terms with VA closing 22 Nov 2009 10:34 GMT
... one of the first places in the country where veterans could receive treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder, and it opened a wing in the 1970s dedicated solely to Vietnam veterans. Over ...
Veterans, Knoxville fear losing a special bond to terms with VA closing 22 Nov 2009 11:30 GMT
... one of the first places in the country where veterans could receive treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder, and it opened a wing in the 1970s dedicated solely to Vietnam veterans. Over ...
Mikulski Applauds Senate Passage of Bill to Support the Caregivers of Our Wounded Veterans 22 Nov 2009 04:39 GMT
... of veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan – 300,000 in all – will develop post-traumatic stress disorder, and countless others will suffer traumatic injury and significant problems adjusting to home life ...
Invisible wounds: Program aims to educate vets, employers 22 Nov 2009 03:16 GMT
... veteran who was nearly blown up on three occasions in Iraq, once feared that post-traumatic stress disorder and a brain injury would keep him from holding down a civilian job, despite ...
Stressed Marines got bad care, therapist says 22 Nov 2009 03:54 GMT
... military superiors complaining of shoddy care of Marines returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, a condition that can make patients jumpy, fearful of loud noises and ...

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Years after Vietnam, vet replaces medals lost in fire 22 Nov 2009 05:20 GMT
... A few years later his dad's house burned down. Even as he struggled with post-traumatic stress disorder, hearing loss and other maladies from his war days, Black's views about the military ...
Murphy helps Vietnam veteran 22 Nov 2009 09:55 GMT
... served as a combat engineer in Chu Lai in 1967-68. I have dealt with post-traumatic stress disorder since I returned, and for all those years I thought it was something you ...
Military suicides increase as U.S. soldiers struggle with torment of war 22 Nov 2009 14:11 GMT
... are pressed into deployment after deployment, something military officials concede is a prescription for post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and substance abuse. "This is the tip of the iceberg," Ensign said. "These ...
N.J. National Guard's suicide prevention efforts draw national attention 22 Nov 2009 14:11 GMT
... prevention and treatment of mental trauma, spreading the message to soldiers that depression and post-traumatic stress disorder should be viewed as seriously as any physical injury. "You have no more control ...
Law firm's scam reopens hundreds of asylum cases 22 Nov 2009 14:13 GMT
... tell the truth but have no documentation, Marks said. ''People can be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder that makes them terrible witnesses.'' The Sekhon firm became an asylum factory, court records ...