BACKGROUND The Iran-Iraq imposed war lasted eight years and was one of the longest wars of the last century. Twenty-three years have passed since the war ended, but little has been discussed about the long-term results of war amputations in the literature. OBJECTIVES In this long-term study, we have evaluated the activities of daily living among veterans with hip or hemipelvis amputations. ...

during eight years of war, military commanders had the burden of planning and directing different operations on their shoulders. they witnessed many events and incidents and were aware of many important and less important issues of the war. in fact, they themselves are a part of iran-iraq war history. however, iranian commanders have not been so willingness to write about the history of this wa...

In this section of the Iraq War Clinician Guide, we discuss treatment of veterans recently evacuated due to combat or war stress who are brought to the VA for mental health care, and Iraq War veterans seeking mental health care at VA medical centers and Vet Centers. This section complements discussion of special topics (e.g., treatment of medical casualties, identification and management of PTS...

Aggressive and unsafe driving was examined in 474 male veterans receiving Veterans Affairs residential treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Specifically, the authors evaluated if PTSD was associated with aggressive and unsafe driving and if Iraq and Afghanistan War veterans were at higher risk than other war veterans. Approximately two thirds of the sample reported lifetime aggre...

In the months leading up to the Anglo-American attack on Iraq, there was a plethora of reports in leading biomedical journals about biological weapons and bioterrorism. The coverage seemed out of proportion to the public health importance of bioterrorism, which has claimed only a small number of lives worldwide. In 2002, there were many more articles on bioterrorism than there were articles on ...

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Background: In the United States, social burdens including war casualties are often distributed unequally across groups of individuals, communities, and states. The purpose of this report was to examine the association between war deaths and per capita income in the 50 states and District of Columbia during the Vietnam and Iraq wars. Methods: The numbers of deaths by the home state of record fo...

BACKGROUND Previous estimates of mortality in Iraq attributable to the 2003 invasion have been heterogeneous and controversial, and none were produced after 2006. The purpose of this research was to estimate direct and indirect deaths attributable to the war in Iraq between 2003 and 2011. METHODS AND FINDINGS We conducted a survey of 2,000 randomly selected households throughout Iraq, using a...

Although recent veterans have been found to be at increased risk of psychiatric disorders, limited research has focused on alcohol or substance use disorders. This systematic review and meta-analysis examined whether alcohol or substance use disorders were more common in Gulf War, Afghanistan, and Iraq War veterans compared with military comparison groups nondeployed to the corresponding confli...