Latest Health Articles for Stress Disorder

• Investigators: Fort Hood suspect acted alone

  article 2009-11-10  |  Author: Devlin Barrett
  The Army psychiatrist accused of the Fort Hood massacre is believed to have acted alone despite repeated communications — monitored by authorities — with a radical imam overseas, U.S. officials said Monday. The FBI will conduct an internal review of its handling of the information, they said.An investigative official and ...

• Smoking in the military: An old habit dies hard

  article 2009-08-30  |  Author: Deb Riechmann
  Gen. Douglas MacArthur had his signature corncob pipe. Soldiers got cigarettes in their C-rations during World War II. Even today, America's war on tobacco seems to have largely bypassed the military.Now a proposal to make the forces smoke-free is drawing strong reactions from troops who have served in Iraq and ...

• American kills 5 fellow soldiers at clinic in Iraq

  article 2009-05-12  |  Author: Robert H. Reid
  An American Army sergeant shot and killed five fellow soldiers following an altercation at a military counseling center in Iraq Monday, officials said. The attack drew attention to the issues of combat stress and morale among soldiers serving multiple combat tours over six years of war.The suspect had been disarmed ...

• Bases brace for surge in stress-related disorders

  article 2008-11-30  |  Author: Lolita C. Baldor
  Some 15,000 soldiers are heading home to this sprawling base after spending more than a year at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and military health officials are bracing for a surge in brain injuries and psychological problems among those troops.Facing prospects that one in five of the 101st Airborne Division ...

• Suicide hot line got calls from 22,000 veterans

  article 2008-07-28  |  Author: Katharine Euphrat
  More than 22,000 veterans have sought help from a special suicide hot line in its first year, and 1,221 suicides have been averted, the government says.According to a recent RAND Corp. study, roughly one in five soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan displays symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, ...

• APNewsBreak: Report says former detainees suffer from trauma sustained in US custody

  article 2008-06-18  |  Author: Pamela Hess
  Former detainees from American military jails in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and lingering physical injuries and scars that can be traced to their imprisonment, according to a human rights group.One Iraqi prisoner, identified only as Yasser, reported being subjected to electric shocks ...

• US Army officer accused then cleared of Iraq killings now forced back to duty

  article 2008-06-10  |  Author: M.r. Kropko
  A congressman protested the military's decision to force an Army officer back to duty who was accused then cleared of killing Iraqi civilians more than two years ago, saying he deserves more from the military that falsely accused him.U.S. Rep. Steven LaTourette, R-Ohio, wrote a letter Monday to Defense Secretary ...

• Pentagon changes rule for security clearances

  article 2008-05-02  |  Author: Pauline Jelinek
  Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday urged troops to get psychiatric counseling for wartime mental health problems, saying it's "not going to count against them" if they apply for national security clearances for sensitive jobs.Gates announced a new policy under which troops and civilian defense employees will no ...

• Veterans Affairs official denies cover-up of suicide rates

  article 2008-04-26  |  Author: Paul Elias
  A top-ranking official at the Department of Veterans Affairs defends the agency's treatment of disabled veterans and denies the agency has tried to cover up the number of veterans committing suicide.Dr. Michael Kussman, a department undersecretary for health, testified during a trial in San Francisco federal court that will determine ...

• Lawsuit: Veterans Affairs has failed to prevent suicides

  article 2008-04-20  |  Author: Paul Elias
  The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is not doing enough to prevent suicide and provide adequate medical care for Americans who have served in the armed forces, a class-action lawsuit that goes to trial this week charges.The lawsuit, filed in July by two nonprofit groups representing military veterans, accuses the ...