BACKGROUND Differences in the characteristics and mental health needs of female veterans of the Iraq/Afghanistan war compared with those of veterans of other wars may have useful implications for VA program and treatment planning. METHODS Female veterans reporting service in the Iraq/Afghanistan war were compared with women reporting service in the Persian Gulf and Vietnam wars and to men rep...

This two-part investigation examined associations between service in Vietnam and indices of long-term general life adjustment using a national sample of male and female members of the Vietnam generation. In Study I , we documented reasonably high levels of satisfaction and attainment among Vietnam veterans, levels that differed minimally, on average, from those who served elsewhere and those wh...

Singapore was the site of an East-West convergence over the week of 27 November-1 December 2000. At the behest of their respective governments, scientists from the United States and Vietnam came together for what promises to be the first of many meetings. Their mission: to explore the possibility of launching a joint research program to study the human and environmental health effects resulting...

PURPOSE Previous work has demonstrated the relatively high prevalence of risk factors for cognitive impairment, such as sleep disordered breathing (SDB) and obesity, in Vietnam War era veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). No data are currently available on the longitudinal stability of SDB as a risk factor for cognitive decline in that population, which this study now reports. ...

Data from 17,726 battle casualties admitted to all the US Army hospitals in the Republic of Vietnam (RVN) from March 1966 to July 1967 (60% of all patients wounded during this time) revealed that 13.8% of all wounds involved the abdomen, and that the kidney was involved in approximately 9% of those with abdominal wounds. The mortality in this group (who had renal wounds as a component of their ...

Medical policy-makers have concluded that stress from wartime trauma and deployment constitutes an important cause of the chronic physical symptoms observed in US veterans who served in the Persian Gulf War. The author reviewed scientific articles from peer-reviewed journals referenced in the final report of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' illnesses and conducted a MED...

Declaration of interest None. Fundingdetailed in Acknowledgements. There is extensive documentation of the prevalence, severity and correlates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in Vietnam veterans exposed to the trauma of combat and war-zone service (Kulka et al, 1990). Research with Vietnam combat veterans has been used to create and refine the DSM criteria for PTSD (Shephard, 2001), to ...

Because of his alleged post-Vietnam stress disorder, a veteran was found not responsible by reason of mental disease in a shooting incident. The outcome of his subsequent malpractice suite against the Veterans Administration raises some important cautions. With the publication of DSM-III, the term posttraumatic stress disorder has increasingly come into use. I Yost and Williams, among others, h...