MoD reveals scale of brain injuries
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Hundreds of troops returning to the UK from Iraq and Afghanistan suffering from exposure to explosions
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Traumatic brain injury, described as the signature wound of the Iraq war, may be less to blame for soldiers' symptoms than doctors once thought, contends a provocative military study that suggests post-traumatic stress and depression often play a role.
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Volunteers show marked improvement in verbal skills after a research team runs a weak current through their foreheads. The researchers say it could lead to innovative therapies for patients with brain injuries. By Amit Asaravala.
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Scientists develop an electronic device to test for serious head injuries.
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A prominent hospital in Melbourne, Australia, has told more than 1 000 former brain and spinal patients that they may be at slight risk of a rare, fatal brain disease, the Sydney Morning Herald reported Monday.
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Thousands of brain-damaged people who are treated as if they are almost completely unaware may register what is going on around them but be unable to respond, a study suggests.
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BEIJING, Aug.21(Xinhuanet) -- Writing in the British medical journal Lancet, Professor Steven Miles of Minnesota University says some medics had collaborated with abusive guards at Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad, and called for an inquiry into the role ...
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Safety lapses in the NHS caused the deaths of more than 2,000 patients and led to the harm of another 160,000 people over the last year.
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A Royal Marine dies from injuries sustained in a road accident earlier this month, says the MoD.
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The toll on U.S. troops of war in Iraq  and Afghanistan may be obscured by dramatic advances in  battlefield medicine that allow more soldiers to survive combat  injuries than ever before, according to a report in The New  England Journal of Medicine.
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About 21,000 American soldiers, most of them from units sent to Iraq, have been treated at the biggest U.S. military hospital outside the United States since the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, the hospital said Monday.
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Road casualty figures show a fall but there is controversy about their accuracy.
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The government must acknowledge that thousands of soldiers who served in the 1991 Gulf War are suffering serious illnesses as a direct result, a heavyweight inquiry has concluded.
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Traumatic brain injury cases, the signature wound of the Iraq war, are leaving the military health care system scrambling.
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An innovative navigation system uses optical signals from hospital lights to guide patients with traumatic brain injuries around hospitals.
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Britain's most seriously injured military personnel are to benefit from an improved compensation package, the Ministry of Defence announced today
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An unexpectedly high number of US soldiers injured in the Middle East and Afghanistan are testing positive for a rare, hard-to-treat blood infection in military hospitals, Army doctors reported on Thursday.