Virtual treatment for US troops
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US soldiers returning from Iraq with post-traumatic stress disorder are being treated with virtual reality.
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Surgeons may soon be able to practise tricky operations using a virtual scalpel on a virtual body.
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Advances in treatment of horrific battlefield injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan that have saved the lives of many U.S. soldiers who would have died in previous wars may yield valuable techniques for treating civilian trauma victims, military doctors said.
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Researchers at the National Institute of Mental Health use a video game to help determine the link between the hippocampus and depression. In Game|Life.
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Nintendo's Wii video game system is fast becoming a craze in rehab therapy for patients recovering from strokes, broken bones, surgery and even combat injuries
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By MATT COLEMAN  It's easy to take instant communication for granted with the accessibility of cell phones and the Internet. This becomes a little more difficult when the person you're communicating with is in a war zone.
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New ways of protecting U.S. troops from RPGs, biological weapons and more take center stage at a military science conference. There's even a morphine substitute that emerged from the rave scene. Noah Shachtman reports from Orlando, Florida.
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Nov. 8, 2004 -- A drug used to treat tuberculosis may help people overcome their fear of heights and other phobias. Researchers found adding the drug to behavioral therapy using virtual reality helped people
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In what is said to be an Australian first, a group of medical researchers from Newcastle, on the NSW central coast, has found computerised cognitive behaviour therapy is successfully treating those suffering ...
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NEW YORK  - When people with depression  can't easily get to a psychiatrist's office, they can be helped  by telepsychiatry -- that is, remote treatment delivered over  personal-computer-based videoconferencing equipment and cameras  mounted on the monitors.
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Online tools can help workers assess their planâs health.
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Dec. 6, 2004 -- A mind-operated computer may one day help people with spinal cord injuries communicate. It may sound like science fiction, but such a device already exists.
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As thousands more wounded troops return from Iraq and Afghanistan, occupational therapists are now caring for a new generation of soldiers, working to return them to civilian life or the military using a variety of rehabilitation programs.
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For decades, the U.S. military has been using games to train its troops. Now, for the first time, the Army has set up a project office just for building and deploying videogames.  But don't expect a copy of Halo 3 in your rucksack, soldier.
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The Army plans to begin a program today to educate every soldier about traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder. The rare effort to break the perceived stigma within the military on mental health problems comes as increasingly more troops return from battle with serious but...
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Images of medics treating horrific injuries in Iraq and the anguished faces of wounded U.S. soldiers are juxtaposed in a new exhibit with pictures of youthful veterans back home dealing with life as amputees.
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Multimedia: Surgeons and medics in an army field hospital struggle to save the lives of Iraqi and American troops