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..Twenty patients (18.7%) were referred to a medical evaluation board, seven (6.5%) of whom failed to meet retention standards for eye and vision; the retention status of three patients (2.8%) remains to be determined...

The current combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have involved U.S. military personnel in major ground combat and hazardous security duty...

Concerns have been raised about the mental and physical health of UK military personnel who deployed to the 2003 war in Iraq and subsequent tours of duty in the country.

..The goal of this study was to compare the postdeployment mental health screening results of US Army soldiers with 1 or 2 deployments to Iraq.

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is an important source of morbidity in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Although penetrating brain injuries are more readily identified, closed brain injuries occur more commonly...

..study to assess the prevalence of overweight and obesity in primary school children age 7 to 13 years in central Iraq and to identify possible risk factors...

Although human rights abuses have been reported in Iraq, the full scope of these abuses has not been well documented.

Estimates of the death toll in Iraq from the time of the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003 until June 2006 have ranged from 47,668 (from the Iraq Body Count) to 601,027 (from a national survey)...

..screening for mental health problems among all service members returning from deployment to Afghanistan, Iraq, and other locations...

..Services were most often received from primary care physicians, rather than specialty mental health professionals, which may relate to the lack of availability of mental health services for spouses on military installations...

..Important knowledge gaps about gastroenteritis were identified and should serve as a basis to develop military-specific clinical guidelines and training programs...

..The prevalence of stunting only, and concurrent stunting and underweight, were 18.7% and 13.5% respectively, with a slight predominance among girls. The study also demonstrated the progression of height deficit with increasing age...

..The study was carried out at the Al-karama and Al-rasheed kidney transplant centers in Baghdad, Iraq. A total of 16 patients developed malignancies...

..Rates of self-reported depression among troops in Afghanistan were lower than those of Iraq (32.3 vs 69.7 per 10000, P < .0001)...

..15 mg/ml against B. subtilis, B. cereus, P. vulgaris and C. diphtheriae. In addition, the same extract from the same plant part demonstrated the strongest antifungal activity against C. albicans with an MIC value of 0.15 mg/ml...

To evaluate the levels of some essential elements in thalassemic patients in Mosul, Iraq.

..diabetes mellitus, previously undiagnosed diabetes and impaired fasting plasma glucose (IFG)} in adult non-pregnant population 20 years of age and older in Basrah, Southern Iraq using American Diabetes Association (ADA) criteria.

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..This study reports the complete management of extremity vascular injury in a local wartime population and illustrates the unique aspects of this cohort and management strategy...

Limited information is available in Iraq regarding the causes of under-five mortality...

..is proposed to include two species collected and redescribed from spiny eels (Mastacembelidae) in India and Iraq: Mastacembelocleidus bam (Tripathi, 1959) comb. n. (syn...

beta-Thalassemia (thal) is an important health problem in the Dohuk region of northern Iraq because of its high carrier rate and the frequency of consanguineous marriages...

Repeated combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan are resulting in increased rates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among military personnel...

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..Metabolic disorders were the major causes, but can be masked by associated UTI. Proper management of UTI with a careful metabolic assessment of young stone formers is valuable in combating urolithiasis...

..A novel wound management protocol was developed to facilitate this practice, and patient outcomes were tracked. This article describes that protocol and discusses the outcomes in a series of 88 wounds managed with it...

..We report 2 cases of acute Q fever in members of the US Military recently returned from Iraq. Because a number of recent reports suggest that the risk of Q fever may be higher than initially thought among US ..

An excess mortality of nearly 100 000 deaths was reported in Iraq for the period March, 2003-September, 2004, attributed to the invasion of Iraq. Our aim was to update this estimate.

Improvised explosive devices and mines pose a formidable threat to military convoys traveling in Iraq. This study evaluated battle injuries sustained by a mechanized battalion operating against this threat...

This study assessed beliefs about mental health treatment in a group of soldiers newly returning from the war in Iraq.

..Troops are at risk for local fauna encounters while deployed in the current operational environment. The potential morbidity, mortality, and operational impact of these health hazards need to be considered...

..S. military entomologists led efforts to characterize, prevent, and control leishmaniasis at Tallil Air Base (TAB), Iraq, during Operation Iraqi Freedom...

Data from two parallel household surveys conducted in Iraq by UNICEF in 1999 show that under-5 mortality declined steadily from 1974 to 1990, reaching about 63 per 1,000 live births in the period 1986-90...

In 1999 UNICEF, in cooperation with the government of Iraq and the local authorities in the "autonomous" (northern Kurdish) region, conducted two similar surveys to provide regionally representative and reliable estimates of ..

..This article presents an overview of the types of injuries emerging from the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the majority of which are extremity injuries, and the care soldiers are receiving on the ..

..Acute eosinophilic pneumonia (AEP) is a rare disease of unknown etiology characterized by respiratory failure, radiographic infiltrates, and eosinophilic infiltration of the lung...

..15-4.08) for psychopathology. The conclusion is that, indeed, the duration of the asylum procedure is an important risk factor for psychiatric problems. Both politicians and mental health workers should take note of this finding...

In March, 2003, military forces, mainly from the USA and the UK, invaded Iraq. We did a survey to compare mortality during the period of 14.6 months before the invasion with the 17.8 months after it.

..This paper presents the available options for funding the health-care system in Iraq. It is a summary of ideas and views discussed on several occasions between 2004 and 2005, especially at the First ..

..alpha-thal) has been addressed by several studies from the eastern Mediterranean region, but not from Iraq. To address this issue, we studied 51 individuals with unexplained hypochromia and/or microcytosis, as well as nine ..

..The aim of this study was to explore the effect of low-cost prehospital trauma systems on trauma outcome in land mine victims and to study prehospital risk indicators for better triage of land mine injuries...

The recent war in Iraq presents significant challenges for the surveillance and control of communicable diseases...

A five-year prospective study was conducted in North Iraq and Cambodia to test a model for rural prehospital trauma systems in low-income countries.

In the Iraq-Iran war (1981-1989), extensive use of chemical weapons such as mustard gas caused high mortality, morbidity, injuries, and chronic side effects in vital organs, especially the respiratory tract...

..Through a sister-university relationship between the University of Basrah and the University of Washington, we analyzed Ibn Ghazwan Hospital's leukemia registry data to evaluate trends in childhood leukemia since 1993...

The results of studies concerning the incidence of leishmaniasis among soldiers of Stabilization Forces serving in Iraq in the years from 2003 to March 2004 are presented in this article, in the light of a possibility of importation of ..

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..Further research is warranted...

..now begin to encounter more patients with this challenging entity as military personnel return from rotations in Iraq or Afghanistan...

Helicobacter pylori causes peptic ulceration and gastric adenocarcinoma; the latter is common in Iran but not in Iraq. We hypothesized that more virulent H...

..The disproportionate loss of psychologically unfit personnel early in training creates a "healthy warrior effect," because only those persons who have proven their resilience during training remain eligible for combat...

..and the presence of far forward surgical assets have improved the survival of casualties in the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan...

..Suggestions are made for directions of future research into this effect...

..This study examines risk factors for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and mental health care use among health care workers deployed to combat settings...

..No patient treated conservatively required admission for sepsis, azotemia, or other serious stone-related complication...

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..calcoaceticus-baumannii complex was not detected among a representative sample of 102 US Army soldiers stationed in Iraq. This observation refutes the hypothesis that preinjury skin carriage serves as the reservoir for the Acinetobacter ..

..Pseudoaneurysms are the most frequent finding on delayed evaluation and can result in life-threatening episodes of rebleeding...

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To determine rates of major limb amputation in U.S. military casualties in the current conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, to correlate these with mechanism of injury, and compare the rate with that seen in U.S...

..We conclude that the barriers to care which operate in both military and civilian populations are not insignificant. Western militaries in fact currently face an uphill struggle to combat the substantial barriers to care that exist...

..Shortly after the ground offensive started in Iraq, 109 soldiers were deployed, at very short notice, from Germany to Kuwait on March 21, 2003, as Extending Operation ..

..The consequence of survived psychiatric trauma being a result of short-lived incident or prolonged event are often acute stress disorder (ASD) or posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)...

Since the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, the epidemiologic traits of clinical isolates at Walter Reed Army Medical Center have shifted toward drug-resistant strains of microorganisms, particularly among the gram-negative bacteria...

The U.S. Army 28th Combat Support Hospital (CSH), an echelon III facility, deployed to Iraq at the start of military operations in 2003...

US service members are returning from the war in Iraq and Afghanistan with wound infections due to uncommon bacteria...

..To date, no comprehensive studies of childhood adversity have been conducted with military samples that have included combat troops before and after a combat deployment...

..A classic case presentation followed by a short historical perspective on the rocket-propelled grenade and a proposed algorithm for initial care of these wounds is presented...

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..Determining the types of casualties seen at forward echelons of medical care during different phases of conflict can aid medical planning and help predict the type of medical resources required...

..The lessons learned support the continued colocation of physical therapy and orthopedics in a deployment setting and recognize the need to have more physical therapists placed at level I and II echelons of care...

..directly from its home station in Vicenza, Italy, the 173rd Airborne Brigade committed itself to the invasion of Iraq on the night of March 26, 2003...

..Commanders with combat experience rated their assigned physicians significantly higher than did commanders without combat experience. Despite high ratings, several candid remarks suggest there is still room for improvement...

..Upper and lower extremities accounted for approximately 70% of all injuries, a percentage consistent for battlefield injuries since World War II...

..baumannii isolates recovered from military medical facilities treating civilian and military personnel injured in Iraq/Kuwait (Operation Iraqi Freedom) and Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom) showed that the Acinetobacter derived ..

..Traumatic brain injury (TBI) may occur in as many as 22% of troops deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq. Recent studies in ischemia, as well as unpublished work from our laboratory, suggest two intriguing approaches for ..

..baumannii isolates recovered from military medical facilities treating civilian and military personnel injured in Iraq/Kuwait (Operation Iraqi Freedom) and Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom) showed that the Acinetobacter derived ..

..baumannii isolates recovered from military medical facilities treating civilian and military personnel injured in Iraq/Kuwait (Operation Iraqi Freedom) and Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom) showed that the Acinetobacter derived ..

..Seizures were also observed in humans exposed to nerve agent poisoning during the Iran-Iraq war, and in the Tokyo subway attacks where sarin and VX were used...

..Approximately two thirds of the Jews were refugees, or their offspring, from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Yemen, Syria or Lebanon...

..S. military stationed in Afghanistan and Iraq. We have been studying Leishmania mexicana infection in mice, attempting to understand why mice do not heal, ..

..on civilian populations was a theoretical risk, heightened by the discovery that certain rogue nations (notably Iraq, Syria, and China) either had developed or were attempting to develop anthrax or other biologic agents as a weapon ..

..In the tragic disasters that took place at Minamata, Japan, and subsequently in Iraq, many infants were exposed transplacentally to MeHg...

..important given the growing reliance on Reserve and National Guard forces during the war against terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan...

Over 150,000 soldiers are currently deployed in Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), and 12% of returning OIF soldiers have posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)...

..Not surprisingly, this disease is a problem for American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan;more than 700 cases have been diagnosed in returning military personnel...

..Not surprisingly, this disease is a problem for American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan; more than 700 cases have been diagnosed in returning military personnel...

..The disease has assumed importance for the United States as many soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan veterans are exposed to sand flies and are afflicted with leishmaniasis...

..aureus (MRSA) is already spreading rapidly outside hospitals in the US and globally, and veterans of the Iraq war are returning with untreatable infections of Acinetobacter baumannii...

The employment of chemical weapons by Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) resulted in over 100,000 military and civilian casualties among Iranians...

..S., and smoking prevalence among military personnel remains unacceptably high. Since military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, no significant reduction in smoking prevalence has been achieved...

..Jewish women from Morocco showed less breast cancer than expected. Ancestries from Iraq, lran/Afghanistan and other West Asian countries were associated with an increased risk of breast cancers in ..

..The proposed project is timely because many if not most combatants return from Iraq or Afghanistan to live with their families...

..with pulmonary complications, accounted for most of the deaths following toxic chemical exposure in the Iran-Iraq- war, the accidental release of methyl isocyanate in Bhopal, India, the Tokyo subway sarin attack, and the hostage ..

..reductase: As one consequence of the war on terrorism American soldiers are more and more frequently returning from Iraq with "Baghdad boil" -better known as leishmaniasis...

..Since the fall of 2001, more than 700,000 US military personnel have served in combat zones in or around Iraq and Afghanistan (O'Hanlon and Kamp 2006)...

Today's adolescents are living in violent times. The impending war with Iraq, the events of September 11, 2001, and the nations high terror alert prey upon adolescents' coping...

Broad public attention garnered by veterans who commit violent acts after returning to the U.S. from Iraq and Afghanistan demonstrates the urgent need to develop evidence-based approaches to assessing and reducing post-deployment ..

..PTSD) symptoms among military veterans during the weeks and months following their return from war-zone duty in Iraq and Afghanistan...

For military families, the current war in Iraq has created an urgent challenge for children & their parents...