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new Mental Health Center at the Palo Alto Veterans Hospital in California

Military Mental Health Care Update The VA and Pentagon are on the cutting edge of mental health care – but struggling to shoulder the burdens imposed by two long wars.

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A glance at the statistics leaves no doubt that the United States’ all-volunteer military, after more than a decade of war that often has involved multiple individual deployments, is showing …

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1-17th Infantry helps clear 120 kilometers to Shorabak

Military Suicide Prevention More service members are dying by their own hands than in the battlespace – and the government and the military are trying desperately to help.

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2011 seemed promising: For the first time since 2004, the suicide rate among active-duty Army personnel decreased from the previous year. One reason for the decrease seemed obvious: One of …

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PTSD and TBI: Where We Are Now

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The prevalence of what have become known as the “signature wounds” of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts – post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI) – has been …

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Smoking was banned in military facilities in the 1990s as part of a presidential order that made all federal workplaces smoke-free.

Smoking Cessation, Treatment, and Prevention

Cigarettes were part of the routine kit for soldiers in every war through Vietnam, but just as the nation has become increasingly non-smoking, so has the military. Smoking is now …

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Home Infusion: Opportunity for the DoD/TMA/VA Health Care Systems

Similar to the U.S. health care system at large, the actual and projected rise in the costs of medical care within the Department of Defense (DoD), TRICARE Management Activity and …

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This negative-stained transmission electron micograph (TEM) depicted a number of influenza A virions. Current subtypes of influenza A viruses found in people are influenza A (H1N1) and influenza A (H3N2) viruses. In the spring of 2009, a new influenza A (H1N1) virus emerged to cause illness in people. This virus was very different from regular human influenza A (H1N1) viruses and the new virus has caused an influenza pandemic. Image courtesy of CDC.

Mustering Military Resources Against Pandemic Flu

Avian flu (H5N1), swine flu (H1N1), severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) – in recent years, a series of new diseases with the potential to become pandemics have raised global concerns …

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Senior Airman John Paul Marsh has his eyes checked just after receiving laser eye surgery at the Defense Department Joint Warfighter Refractive Surgery at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. Airman Marsh is with the Air Force Band of the West. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Larry A. Simmons.

20/20 Vision … Corrected Warfighter Refractive Eye Surgery

Perfect vision for combat operations is not an ideal, it’s a necessity. As Lt. Col. Scott Barnes, an Army ophthalmologist at the Warfighter Refractive Eye Clinic at Fort Bragg, N.C., …

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