Israeli army accused of obstructing medical access to civilians

Bush accused of blocking access to cheap AIDS drugs.

News International health charities have accused George Bush's administration of trying to block developing countries' access to cheap AIDS drugs by questioning the quality of " three in one " generic combination drugs. At a meeting this week in Gaborone, Botswana, the US global AIDS coordinator, Ran-dall Tobias, said that the World Health Organization's drug pre-qualification programme is not ...

Pathological narcissism and acute anxiety symptoms after trauma: a study of Israeli civilians exposed to war.

OBJECTIVE Diathesis-stress models of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) hypothesize that exposure to trauma may interact with individual differences in the development of PTSD. Previous studies have not assessed immediate responses to a proximate stressor, but the current "natural laboratory" study was designed to empirically test the role that individual differences in pathological narcissis...

Army Medical Service and the Army Estimates

Assigning Israeli medical graduates to internships

BACKGROUND Physicians in Israel are required to do an internship in an accredited hospital upon completion of the medical studies, and prior to receiving the medical license. For most students, the assignment is determined by a lottery, which takes into consideration the preferences of these students. OBJECTIVES We propose a novel way to perform this lottery, in which (on average) a larger nu...

The Army Medical Warrant