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Internal battles can be deadly for soldiers, too - 0 views

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    Fort 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.
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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.
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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.
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An overture to treatment - 0 views

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    Doctor uses music's healing power PBS special titled "Healthy Minds," a 13-part educational series in its second season on New York's WLIW 21. The show will focus on how soldiers deal with post traumatic stress disorder and how military and medical personnel are helping alleviate it. The program will focus on music, and how it helps patients come to terms with their war memories and experiences. The doctor's poetry, another element inspired by her therapeutic sessions, will also be featured on the program.
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Army College Adds EMR Systems to the Syllabus - 0 views

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    The course prepares Army IT professionals with the skills they'll need in the combat zone to help the nation's best doctors and nurses capture critical medical information without skipping a beat. Sustaining the systems ultimately leads to improved continuity of care and a complete medical history-useful when soldiers apply for VA medical benefits.
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Wounded vets working their way back into world - Breaking News From New Jersey - NJ.com - 0 views

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    If they are able, every wounded soldier is assigned a job, internship or takes continuing education classes during their recovery, said Col. Jimmie Keenan, chief of staff of the nation's Warrior Care and Transition Office. The goal is to place troops in jobs that match existing skills, help them learn new ones, or, if an injury means they need a new career, help them find one.
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Press Releases/Advisories - All-female Medical Evacuation Crew Makes History - 0 views

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    Four soldiers serving in Contingency Operating Base Adder, Iraq, with the New Hampshire National Guard earned a special distinction last week when they became their company's first all-female medical evacuation crew.
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Army begins pre-deployment H1N1 flu screening | Stars and Stripes - 0 views

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    The Army has started to screen all soldiers, Army civilian employees and contractors for swine flu before they deploy to Iraq, Afghanistan, or anywhere else in U.S. Central Command's region.
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Paging Dr. Robot: device treats patients remotely - CNN.com - 0 views

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    A revolutionary robot mounted with a high-tech camera is helping physicians treat and save soldiers -- from just about any location in the world.
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Autistic Marine, Joshua Fry, Highlights Recruting Problems in the Military - ABC News - 0 views

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    The case of Pvt. Joshua Fry, an autistic Marine, highlights the alarming trend of military recruits who don't meet standards developed to ensure quality soldiers, sailors and Marines.
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Army Reverses Policy to Allow Troops to Use Social Networking Sites - Political News -... - 0 views

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    American soldiers can now tweet, send friend requests and share photos and personal news just like the rest of the free world. The U.S. Army is reversing a years-long policy of blocking the Web hotspots on military networks, ordering its network managers to allow access to social media sites.
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Army Orders Bases to Stop Blocking Twitter, Facebook, Flickr | Danger Room | Wired.com - 0 views

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    The Army has ordered its network managers to give soldiers access to social media sites like Facebook, Flickr, and Twitter, Danger Room has learned. That move
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Thompson introduces bill to help vets with PTSD - 0 views

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    With more and more veterans coming back from Iraq with post-traumatic stress disorder, North Coast Congressman Mike Thompson is trying to make sure they get the help they need. Thompson and Rep. Denny Rehberg, R-Mont., introduced legislation Thursday in the House that would require every soldier to have face-to-face mental health screening before being deployed on a combat mission, again upon their return and then every six months for the next two years. The bill is companion legislation to a measure introduced in the Senate by Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont.
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Two Soldiers Invent a Medical Tube Securing Device - 0 views

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    Spc. Brendan Beely and Staff Sgt. Gabriel Wright of the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research (USAISR), a subcommand of U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (MRMC), recognized a problem, and invented a device for securing medical tubes and catheters intubated within a patient that will prevent damage to the incisors by locating separate bite blocks on the molars. It also helps to prevent pressure sores on patients' lips.
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