Returning wounded veterans and servicemembers to their highest level of function following traumatic injury is a priority of the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs. We surveyed 245 veterans from the Vietnam war and 226 servicemembers and veterans from Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedom (OIF/OEF) conflicts with at least one major traumatic lower-limb loss to determine th...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to investigate the association between Vietnam experience including exposure to military herbicides and cancer incidence in Korean Vietnam War veterans. METHODS The cancer cases of 185 265 Vietnam veterans from January 1, 1992 to December 31, 2003 were confirmed from the Korea National Cancer Incidence Database. The age-adjusted incidence and standardized ...

logical trauma during war. Based on studies of Vietnam veterans and veterans with war-related traumas, an Institute of Medicine committee concluded that there is sufficient evidence of an association between deployment to a war zone and suicide in the early years after deployment. Study limitations include the potential for misclassification and underreporting of suicide, although this would be...

BACKGROUND Three decades after US and Australian forces withdrew from Vietnam, there has been much public interest in the health consequences of service in Vietnam. One controversial question is whether the risk of prostate cancer amongst Vietnam veterans is increased. This paper examines relationships between military history, family history and risk of prostate cancer in a population-based ca...

by the horrors Dean so lavishly catalogues, and overkill and compassion fatigue soon set in. The account of the psychological sequelae of the war and their clinical treatment is absorbing, but sheds little light on modem problems. It is unclear whether Dean commends or deplores the harshness with which so many of these cases were handled; unclear, too, as the book progresses, whether comparison...