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 The Holocaust is a crime that never seems to quit. Even as the ranks of survivors grow smaller each year, the impact of that dark passage in history continues to be to be felt. And it's not just the victims who feel the effects; it's their children too. Read more: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2016824,00.html?xid=newsletter-daily#ixzz0z2aDUVdv

For three weeks after he turned 18, David Cruickshanks sat in the bowels of a Royal Navy assault ship while Argentinian forces ripped its sides with machine gun fire and bombs tore at its bow. He prayed none were destined for him as he listened helplessly to the terrifying noises outside. Now aged 46, Cruickshanks's experiences during and after the ...

The goal of a new U.S. Army training program is to reduce injuries and better prepare unfit and overweight recruits for the rigors of combat. Dawn breaks at the U.S. Army's largest training post, with the reliable sound of fresh recruits marching to their morning exercise. But these days, something looks different. That familiar standby, the situp, is gone, or ...

THE Royal Marine Commandos are some of the toughest soldiers on the planet. It's not surprising. They have to complete one of the longest basic infantry training coursesin the world. It's necessary because 3 Commando Brigade is the Navy's amphibious infantry. They have to be ready to fly across the globe at a moment's notice to fight in any terrain. The ...

 Interviews with dozens of mental-health experts at Army bases tell a similar story. Even though the Army mental-health corps has increased about 60% since 9/11, demand is growing even faster.  

CRIPPLED with excruciating back pain, Murray Leith was unable to get out of bed one morning. As someone who suffered a catalogue of back problems for two decades, most days were a struggle for the university lecturer - even simple tasks like standing upright were near-impossible. In a bid to improve his quality of life, 44-year-old Murray had painful surgery ...

If the practitioners of one method for treating post-traumatic stress disorder are to be believed, the peace-of-mind that has eluded hundreds of thousands of Soldiers and veterans is resting in their own hands. Well, not just in their hands, but in certain "energy points" in the body and with their minds' own ability to put new distance between it and traumatic ...

At the height of the Iraq war, the Army routinely fired hundreds of soldiers for having a personality disorder when they were more likely suffering from the traumatic stresses of war, discharge data suggests.

 Thought I would post this link, I think for the second time. There is a nationwide agreement that Military Veterans get priority treatment where the condition may be related to their previous service.  This also applies to serving personnel who access NHS services.

Special laboratories are monitoring the potential release of radioactive contaminants in Russia's Bryansk region, which borders Ukraine. This area was contaminated with Cesium-137 and Strontium-90 by fallout from the Chernobyl accident. Radioactive substances from Chernobyl still remain in the upper layer of soil in the forests of Bryansk, Lipetsk, Kaluga and Tula.

Mental health experts at Fort Bragg said Wednesday that deployments are not necessarily to blame for an upward trend of suicides in the Army. Officials met Wednesday to discuss what they are doing to help bring down the number of suicides at the Army base in North Carolina. So far this year, the base has seen four confirmed suicides, with two ...

The Human Brain: links of study this is not the complete list; The Human Brain - New Scientist http://www.newscientist.com/topic/brain - 49k - similar pages With one hundred billion nerve cells, the complexity is mind-boggling. Learn more in our cutting-edge guide.

The US government has announced new rules that will make it easier for US veterans to receive federal benefits for post traumatic stress disorder. Changes to the claims process process mean veterans no longer have to prove exactly what caused their PTSD. They will simply have to demonstrate that the conditions of their service contributed to the illness. President Obama has ...

As many soldiers return from Iraq and Afghanistan suffering from PTSD, a radical treatment called "virtual reality exposure therapy" is being developed by psychiatrists in the US DoD to tackle the disorder. A new emerging treatment is currently being tested by psychiatrists in the US Military Department of Defence to help returning soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan against combat-related post traumatic ...

More than 230,000 women have served in Iraq and Afghanistan in the past nine years. Women account for 15% of the active-duty military. The number of female veterans being treated by the VA has more than doubled since 2004 and is expected to double again by 2015. The VA, which did not even start providing medical and mental-health services to women until ...

In January 2010, Time Magazine published an article on MEG imaging and its potential for the screening and diagnosis of PTSD, and monitoring of response to treatment. On 1 July 2010, GE Healthcare holds a symposium on brain imaging. This would be a great opportunity to ask questions about MEG. The meeting is free to attend, but it is necessary to register in advance. Where: London ...

 The comments at the bottom of the article make interesting reading. Anyone who thinks alcohol isn't a problem.....is welcome to come and do my job for a few weeks and see the effect!!!!! 

Tabloids show us unretouched Britney Spears photos each day. Britney Spears herself released before-and-after retouching photos today. The Britney Spears unretouched photos were released as part of Spear's effort to "highlight the pressure exerted on women to look perfect". No doubt that releasing these photos probably won't hurt the credit repair Britney seems to be trying to do following scandal ...

Tabloids show us <a title="Bruises, cellulite, tattoos" href="http://personalmoneystore.com/moneyblog/2010/04/14/britney-spears-unretouched-photos/">unretouched Britney Spears photos</a> each day. Britney Spears herself released before-and-after retouching photos today. The Britney Spears unretouched photos were released as part of Spear's effort to "highlight the pressure exerted on women to look perfect". No doubt that releasing these photos probably won't hurt the credit repair Britney seems to be trying ...

FoxNews​.com reports that a paper presented by a psychiatrist Dr. Michael Mithoefer last week at the Psychedelic Science in the 21st Century conference suggests that MDMA can be effective in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder. Popularly know as Ecstasy, MDMA was outlawed in the UK in the mid-‘80s (but not before it became the go-to party drug... for those of ...