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Sat, April 19, 2008 02:46:32 PMFrom:
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Medical Condition News Update from News-Medical.Net - 20th April 2008
300,000 soldiers who served in Iraq
or Afghanistan have post-traumatic stress disorder or major
depression
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=37529
Nearly one in five, or about 300,000, soldiers who has served in Iraq or
Afghanistan has post-traumatic stress disorder or major depression --
illnesses that could cost the U.S. as much as $6.2 billion over two years
in care, lost productivity and lost lives through suicide, according to a
RAND report released on Thursday, the Washington Post reports (Scott
Tyson, Washington Post, 4/18).
20 percent of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from PTSD or major depression
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=37459
Nearly 20 percent of military service members who have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan - 300,000 in all - report symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder or major depression, yet only slight more than half have sought treatment, according to a new RAND Corporation study.
Babies with an eye-alignment disorder called infantile esotropia have developmental delays
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=37456
Babies with an eye-alignment disorder called infantile esotropia have delays in motor development milestones, but development "catches up" after corrective surgery, reports a study in the April Journal of AAPOS (American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus).
New understanding of systemic sclerosis
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=37391
Systemic sclerosis (SSc), also known as scleroderma, is characterized by the formation of fibrosis, or scar tissue, on internal organs as well as the skin.
New hope for blood disorder anaemia
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=37336
A new understanding of how red blood cell production is controlled could lead to improvements in the treatment of the blood disorder anaemia, according to West Australian medical researchers.
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