Wounded troops overwhelm care
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The current means of caring for returning vets is antiquated, compounding concern over the long-term cost of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The Bush administration said on Tuesday problems in the treatment of wounded U.S. war veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan need to be fixed, after reports that many face neglect in the Army's medical system.
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The commission investigating problems in health care for wounded military personnel focused on problems with moving patients through various stages of aid to home care and jobs.
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Problems over treatment of wounded soldiers that created a scandal at the top U.S. military veterans' hospital are prevalent throughout the Army's health care system, lawmakers said on Monday.
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About 70 wounded soldiers a day have arrived at a U.S. military hospital from Iraq, about double the average before the beginning of the battle to oust Islamic militants from their former Fallujah stronghold, the hospital commander said Sunday.
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U.S. military doctors worked through the night stabilizing soldiers and civilians wounded in a deadly insurgent attack on a base in northern Iraq, some of whose wounds are serious but no longer thought to be life threatening, the hospital commander said Thursday.
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Wounded soldiers are left to 'languish on the NHS' according to the commander of the British army during the Falklands war.
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An unexpectedly high number of U.S.  soldiers injured in the Middle East and Afghanistan are testing  positive for a rare, hard-to-treat blood infection in military  hospitals, Army doctors reported on Thursday.
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Images of medics treating horrific injuries in Iraq and the anguished faces of wounded U.S. soldiers are juxtaposed in a new exhibit with pictures of youthful veterans back home dealing with life as amputees.
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U.S. troops returning from combat in Iraq and Afghanistan suffer "daunting and growing" psychological problems -- with nearly 40 percent of soldiers, a third of Marines and half of the National Guard members reporting symptoms -- but the military's cadre of mental-health workers is "woefully...
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Landstuhl is the biggest U.S. military hospital overseas, and its doctors also treat soldiers with non-combat injuries and illnesses.
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A presidential panel will issue its recommendations this week on how to improve military medical care, five months after reports about the barriers to care faced by those wounded in war first drew national attention.
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Medical staff at a U.S. military hospital in southwest Germany are expanding bed capacity to care for scores of wounded from Iraq, including many from the assault on Fallujah, officials said Thursday.
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That&#39;s after a number of troops wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan were hit by infections. The bacterium Acinetobacter baumannii is resistant to most antibiotic drugs.
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld visited wounded soldiers at a time when critics have accused him of being insensitive to the welfare of the troops.
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The family of a soldier wounded in Iraq has been in turmoil since hearing word of their son s serious injuries in Tikrit.
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As the insurgents in Iraq step up their attacks, the Army has increased the intensity of its training of battlefield medics. That has meant moving the training from classrooms to more realistic settings and teaching medics to keep fighting the enemy &#151; even if it means sometimes delaying treatment of the wounded.