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Archive for February 2011

Study Finds Soldiers Benefit from Pre-deployment Screening and Coordination of Care in Theater

PENTAGON—A newly published study shows that psychiatric and behavioral health disorders were reduced by 78% in Army brigades that underwent a pre-deployment health screening program that focused on screening and then linking soldiers to care in theater, if needed.

Recent Women's Health Studies

A Randomized Controlled Trial on Women’s Substance Abuse Treatment (WPR)

Purpose: To examine the efficacy of an evidence-based gender-specific treatment model for women veterans with substance use disorder (SUD).

Recent Immunology Studies

Strategic Timing of Antiretroviral Treatment

Objective: To find out if the chance of developing a serious illness or of getting AIDS is less if patients start taking HIV medicines at a time when their CD4-positive cell count is still fairly high.

Few Answers, Much Potential in Alzheimer’s Research

WASHINGTON, DC—“A cure for Alzheimer’s (AD) has not been found on my watch, but the momentum is there,” said Marcelle Morrison-Bogorad, PhD, at what might be her last opportunity to speak before Congress as the director of the National Institute on Aging’s neuroscience division.

VA Turning to Prevention in Fight Against Homelessness

This winter, much like last, is a hard one on the East Coast. Record snowfall and low temperatures are inconvenient for the general populace, and dangerous, if not deadly, for the homeless. One of the first stories that I worked on when...
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