Military Psychiatric-Care Overhaul Urged
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Top officials in the Bush administration and on Capitol Hill said yesterday that the federal government must move quickly to revamp the nation's system for identifying and caring for military personnel with the invisible wounds of mental illness.
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Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson pledged Monday to add mental health services at more than 100 VA medical centers to fight resistance to seeking help for depression and other illnesses.
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A report into the care and training of military recruits is expected to find siginifcant improvements.
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WASHINGTON -- No war or other national emergency would overwhelm the military's medical care system and require a draft of civilian health care workers, a senior Pentagon official said yesterday.
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General Sir Mike Jackson says he sympathises with concerns about Army restructuring but says it is necessary to make it more efficient.
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The care of people who fracture bones needs overhauling with screening for all over 50s, experts say.
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Problems over treatment of wounded soldiers that created a scandal at the top U.S. military veterans' hospital are prevalent throughout the Army's health care system, lawmakers said on Monday.
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The Government must publish a specific strategy to tackle the state of the mental health service, it was urged today. Labourâs health spokeswoman Liz McManus said efforts must be
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Suicides of U.S. Marines have  reached their highest level in five years, prompting a Defense  Department effort to encourage Marines to seek mental health  services, a Marine Corps spokesman said on Tuesday.
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Top Pentagon officials today blamed a breakdown in leadership for problems with outpatient care at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and vowed to take quick corrective action.
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The problems at the US Army hospital show how strained military resources have become.
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The military medical system must be redirected to meet the needs of the large numbers of seriously wounded soldiers from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, they said.
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Lt. Elizabeth Whiteside, a psychiatric outpatient at Walter Reed Army Medical Center who was waiting for the Army to decide whether to court-martial her for endangering another soldier and turning a gun on herself last year in Iraq, attempted to kill herself Monday evening. In so doing, the...
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The 2005 federal budget falls far short of meeting the health-care needs of this country&#39;s military veterans. Congress needs to look at budget priorities and find more money to help these deserving men and women.
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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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WASHINGTON -- Many Iraq war soldiers, veterans and their families are not getting needed psychological help because a stressed military's mental health system is overwhelmed and understaffed, a task force of psychologists found.
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The failures of Army medical staff members to prevent and report torture at Abu Ghraib prison shows the need for more investigation and better training, medical ethicists and the Army itself said.