Treatment for War Wounded GIs a Struggle
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-- More than 800 of them have lost an arm, a leg, fingers or toes. More than 100 are blind. Dozens need tubes and machines to keep them alive. Hundreds are disfigured by burns, and thousands have brain injuries and mangled minds.
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Doctors at Guantanamo Bay&#39;s holding facility say some of the detainees are being treated for various mental disorders. detainees of Camp Delta were suffering from mental disorders, with half of that figure requiring medication.
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Ray Oliva went into the spare bedroom in his home in Kelseyville, Calif., to wrestle with his feelings. He didn't know a single soldier at Walter Reed, but he felt he knew them all. He worried about the wounded who were entering the world of military health care, which he knew all too well. His own VA hospital in Livermore was a mess. The gown he wore was torn. The wheelchairs were old and broken....
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British troops wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan are receiving appalling care in British hospitals, according to families who have made complaints similar to those leveled against Walter Reed Army Medical Center ...Comment
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British troops injured in combat receive &quot;appalling&quot; treatment, senior army officers and charities have said, The Daily Telegraph reported.
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Thousands of U.S. troops with physical injuries and mental health problems are encountering a benefits system that is already overburdened.
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WASHINGTON -- A state-of-the-art rehabilitation center opening next year at Walter Reed Army Medical Center seeks to return more amputee soldiers to a place once thought impossible: the battlefield.
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US health officials are demanding better infection control methods in military hospitals after a number of infections were reported among forces injured in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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For years Walter Reed Army Medical Center has been the essential stop for injured and maimed soldiers. But a just-opened center in Texas is now the rehab facility to beat
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An expert panel said Thursday that it was unclear which treatments could help combat veterans who are suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.
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RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany Doctors at a U-S military hospital in Germany have been working through the night to stabilize soldiers and civilians wounded in Tuesday's attack in Iraq.
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SIERRA VISTA - Their tales about access to medical care sound a lot like war stories. In a smoky Veterans of Foreign Wars bar in this military town, many Arizona veterans talk bitterly of waiting lists for
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There was a time when the trauma unit at the Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center in Willowbrook was state of the art - if you wanted to train to become a war medic.
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President Bush on Friday named seven more members to the commission investigating the treatment of wounded veterans. Bush has ordered a comprehensive review of conditions at military and veterans hospitals, which have been overwhelmed by injured troops from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs should overhaul its outdated system of compensating former military personnel for disabling injuries they suffered during their service, the Institute of Medicine recommended yesterday.
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Like anyone who goes to war, Sgt. Geoffrey Allison worried about making it home alive.
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Lt. Gen. Kevin C. Kiley is the third high-ranking casualty over the disclosures of shabby treatment endured by those wounded in Iraq.