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WASHINGTON -- Increasing numbers of U.S. troops have left the military with damaged bodies and minds, an ever-larger pool of disabled veterans that will cost the nation billions for decades to come - even as the total population of America's vets shrinks.
As the bloated bodies rise and fall with the current, women scrub clothes along the river bank, villagers bathe to cool themselves and a lone child sits on a dock staring aimlessly into the water. ... "In some areas there are 5,000 bodies in waterways, stuck in fields...
As the bloated bodies rise and fall with the current, women scrub clothes along the river bank, villagers bathe to cool themselves and a lone child sits on a dock staring aimlessly into the water. ... “In some areas there are 5,000 bodies in waterways, stuck in fields...
PHOENIX, May 11 (UPI) -- An Arizona judge has blocked a hospital from sending a comatose woman, who is in the United States legally, back to her native Honduras, papers show. ... Sonia del Cid Iscoa has been in a coma in St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center since she...
Jobless and impoverished, Afghans turn to drugs to forget their troubles. ... JAM Bigum, a drug addict in Afghanistan’s impoverished northern province of Badakhshan, feeds her three-month-old son opium three times a day to keep him quiet. Naik Bakhat, a 35-year-old...
The 66-year-old retired assistant headmaster who fell ill after eating star fruit is now in the intensive care unit at the Universiti Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC) after being flown back from Shenzhen, China. ... Tang Gon Seang was flown back to Malaysia last Monday,...
Regular rest break reminders for the prevention of repetitive strain injury, eye strain and back pain at your computer--right when you need them. ... If you are suffering the symptoms of repetitive strain injury, getting eye strain looking at your computer monitor or...
By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Families claiming that a mercury-based preservative in vaccines triggers autism will challenge mainstream medicine Monday as they take their case to a federal court. In 2004, a committee with the Institute of...
Depressed people may have far fewer of the receptors for some of the brain's "feel good" stress-response chemicals than non-depressed people, new University of Michigan Depression Center research shows.And even among depressed people, the numbers of these receptors can vary greatly.
The number of children in the Gulf Coast region after Hurricane Katrina who complained of symptoms of bronchitis, pneumonia and other lower respiratory illnesses rose in the years after the storm, according to a 49-page CDC report released on Thursday, the Washington Post reports.
