Internal battles can be deadly for soldiers, too - 0 views
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Military Health on 10 Feb 09Fort Eustis and other Army bases will soon take steps to prevent suicides by tackling stress and depression.
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Program curbing soldiers' loss of hearing - 0 views
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Program at Fort Carson helping soliders with hearing damage.
Chief of the Army Nurse Corps Plans to Transform Army Nursing - 0 views
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Maj. Gen. Patricia D. Horoho, RN, the new chief of the Army Nurse Corps, has ambitious plans to transform Army nursing using lessons learned from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the best of military nursing research, and the latest advances in the nursing profession.
Mental health clinic opens at Bagram - 0 views
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A mental health clinic has opened at Bagram Air Base that is modeled after a program successfully used in Iraq, officials say. Called the Bagram Freedom Restoration Center, the clinic houses servicemembers for several days during a structured program. Servicemembers come from across Afghanistan, according to Capt. Don Hawkins, officer in charge of the clinic.
Aeromedical missions bring total force partners together - 0 views
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2/26/2009 - SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. (AFNS) -- Almost 56,000 Soldiers, Marines, Sailors since October 2001 have been aeromedically evacuated supporting expeditionary operations by the total force team of active-duty, Reserve and Guard Airmen.
The Spectrum Online: Traumatic brain injuries: A road to recovery - 0 views
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A team of researchers led by Kerry Z. Donnelly, an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Counseling, has been studying the clinical profiles of Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF) veterans suffering from traumatic brain injuries (TBI) to design treatments to better the return to civilian life.
MHS - Share Your Care Video Contest - 0 views
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The Military Health System is asking you to "Share Your Care" in a video contest that showcases the people, programs and facilities supporting the health of our service members and families! The Share Your Care contest, is open to all service members, their families and MHS personnel, and it runs Feb. 27 through March 30, 2009.
AFRICOM surgeon brings needed medicine to Mali - 0 views
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STUTTGART, Germany - The first step was to get a meeting with the village elder. After getting the OK from him, Dr. (Col.) Schuyler Geller brought in some of his medics to do an outreach operation in a small village in the impoverished African country of Mali.
Brain Injury and Collaborative Efforts to Address It - 0 views
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Two important initiatives are underway to help define those service members affected by brain injury. The initiatives are organizations known as the Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine and the National Intrepid Center of Excellence, or "NICoE." These two collaborating programs will play key roles to address traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Fort Campbell Center Represents Benchmark in Treatment - 0 views
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FORT CAMPBELL, Ky., Feb. 21, 2009 - A tour of the Traumatic Brain Injury Warrior Resiliency and Recovery Center here yesterday made a favorable impression on the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
New Breed Of Counselors Deals With Veterans' PTSD - 0 views
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White, 37, of Cromwell, is an outreach counselor at the Hartford Vet Center in Rocky Hill. He is a member of a new breed of counselors hired by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in an attempt to avoid the Vietnam-era mistake of ignoring post-traumatic stress disorder and other readjustment problems experienced by soldiers returning from war zones. He was hired in 2004, one of about 50 counselors recruited because they had served in Iraq.
General Does Part to Reduce Mental Health Stigma - 0 views
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Army Maj. Gen. David Blackledge is doing his part to reduce the social stigma attached to seeking mental health treatment for war-related stress.
Medical team hikes into mountains to care for children - 0 views
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ARCALA, Honduras (AFNS) -- During a two-week exercise in early February, a team of 16 medical doctors, nurse practitioners, dietitians and medical students conducted pediatric nutrition evaluations for families without the means or access to regular medical care in the remote mountains near Marcala, Honduras.
Deployment Health and Family Readiness Library - 0 views
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This library provides Service members, families, leaders, Health Care providers, and veterans an easy way to find deployment health and family readiness information.
The New Heart Tests: Which Ones Should You Have? - 0 views
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Experts explain the pros and cons of coronary calcium scores, carotid artery ultrasound, and CT heart scans.
Group helps families of suicide victims - 0 views
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Feturing TAPS offers peer-based support, crisis care, casualty casework assistance and grief and trauma resources, all free. Unlike most programs offered through the military, TAPS provides ongoing help to anyone grieving the death of a loved one in the military, regardless of the relationship to the deceased, where they live, or the circumstances of the death.
Wing program helps Airmen get fit to fight - 0 views
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Officials in the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing have developed a unique program called the Body Mass Reduction Program which is designed to aid Airmen in achieving a healthy lifestyle while improving their mission capability and contributions to the wing.
GIs are back, but at a loss - 0 views
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A survey of soldiers returning from Iraq found that as many as 1 in 4 had some level of hearing damage. A study in the American Journal of Audiology found that soldiers deployed to Iraq from April 2003 to March 2004 were 50 times more likely to suffer acoustic trauma than those who were not deployed. Such statistics have prompted the military to rethink how it handles hearing cases, and Ft. Carson, Colo., is on the front lines of that change.
02/18/2009 - Trauma lab at SLU simulates war zone - STLtoday.com - 0 views
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Medical personnel headed overseas, plus students here, learn to face emergencies, make decisions and take action.
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