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  • Laboratory analyzes shrapnel to look for uranium

    Military doctors here are examining shrapnel taken from service members and veterans, looking for depleted uranium and other metals.The Joint Pathology Center's Biophysical Toxicology and Depleted Uranium/Embedded Metal Fragment Laboratories branch is analyzing the embedded fragments and providing

  • Dempsey: Sesame workshop gives top support to families

    Sesame Workshop's resources and outreach have done more to help families cope with repeated deployments during a decade of war than anything the military could have done alone, the military's top officer said here April 18.Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said

  • Army refines medical management of concussion

    Over the past 20 months, the Army has been working to refine the way it tracks and treats the most common form of battlefield brain injuries -- concussion, also called mild traumatic brain injury, or mTBI.The job isn't easy, because even in the United States, where civilians experience traumatic

  • Army research drives brain injury science

    With $633 million and 472 active research projects on traumatic brain injury alone, the Army is driving the science behind this neglected public health problem that affects everyone from kids on the sports field to service members in Afghanistan.TBI, and especially mild TBI, "is essentially a

  • Living with post-traumatic stress disorder

    "I started to get really depressed and lacked the desire to do anything but sit around and play online to 'escape' the real world," he said. "I was having dreams of planes crashing, the smell of burnt flesh and rotting bodies. I still tried to push through this even as my sleep started to dwindle

  • 29 athletes selected for 2012 Warrior Games team

    Twenty-nine Air Force athletes will compete for gold after being chosen to represent the service at the 2012 Warrior Games.Warrior Games is an Olympic-style event open to all wounded, ill and injured military members and veterans. This year's event takes place April 30 through May 5 in Colorado

  • Second, improved New Horizons group to begin April 5

    The second 48th Medical Group New Horizons class is scheduled to begin April 5 and will offer improved counseling for the personal well-being and long-term healing of wounded Airmen.New Horizons was launched as a 48th MDG Air Force Wounded Warrior Group pilot program, and nine Airmen from RAFs

  • Horse therapy helps veterans break through PTSD

    A Pentagon Channel documentary sheds light on how military veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder are finding help through the power of horse therapy."Recon: Unbridled" highlights "Horses for Veterans," at Flag is Up Farms in California, an intensive three-day program designed to help veterans

  • Food transformation program adds seven bases

    Airmen at seven installations will see a new era in food service operations in October as the Air Force Food Transformation Initiative expands.FTI is a pilot program designed to provide Airmen with improved food quality, variety and availability, while maintaining home station and warfighting

  • First lady unveils new military spouse hiring effort

    First lady Michelle Obama announced a new hiring effort intended to deliver thousands of portable, flexible job opportunities to military spouses and veterans in the coming years.Eleven companies have pledged more than 15,000 jobs for military spouses and veterans, the first lady said, noting the

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