Study reveals US veterans' trauma
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Many US soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer mental health problems, a study shows.
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Stress brought on by the September 11 attacks in New York and Washington in 2001 led to heart problems for some Americans, even if they had no personal connection to the events, a study released on Monday found.
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Medical costs for U.S. veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could range from $350 billion to $662 billion over the next 40 years, as soldiers survive injuries that would have killed them in past conflicts, according to a Harvard University study.
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Nearly a third of veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan who received care from Veterans Affairs between 2001 and 2005 were diagnosed with mental health or psychosocial ills, a new study concludes. Of nearly 104,000 veterans studied, more than half (56 percent) were diagnosed with two or more disorders.
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-- The role of traumatic brain injury _ blamed for symptoms plaguing thousands of soldiers returning from Iraq _ might be overstated, contends a provocative military study that offers hope for successful treatment.
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US troops injured in Iraq have required limb amputations at twice the rate of past wars, and as many as 20 percent have suffered severe head and neck injuries, according to new data giving the
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New research suggests that post-traumatic stress disorder may be linked to concussions suffered in battle
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Women soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress, such as those who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, are best off directly confronting their wartime experiences in therapy, a study said on Tuesday.
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Dr. Shahrzad Mavandadi, of the University of Pennsylvania,  Philadelphia, and colleagues examined the effects of pain on  the response to depression treatment in 524 men, 60 years of  age or older, who were seen at a VA medical center.
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An independent inquiry has concluded thousands of Gulf War veterans were made ill by their service. Shaun Rusling and Noel Baker, who have experienced a variety of illnesses since serving in the Gulf, are
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There is no such thing as Gulf War syndrome, even though U.S. and foreign veterans of the war report more symptoms of illness than do soldiers who didn't serve there, a federally funded study concludes.
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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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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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Many U.S. combat veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan are clearly suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder but it is not at all clear which treatments work to help them, an Institute of Medicine panel said on Thursday.
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Thousands of Iraq war veterans who could have suffered traumatic brain injury may be getting unnecessary or inadequate health care because Veterans Affairs officials have yet to determine whether their initial screening tests are reliable, investigators say.
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A federal panel that has spent two years reviewing studies of Gulf War illnesses recommends focusing future research on the effects of the toxic substances that veterans encountered during the 1991 conflict.
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More than 25 percent of the homeless population in the United States are war veterans, although they represent only 11 percent of the civilian adult population, according to a report to be released Thursday.