Joel Kupersmith, MD; Henry L. Lew, MD, PhD; Alex K. Ommaya, ScD; Michael S. Jaffee, MD; Walter J. Koroshetz, MD Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the foremost medical problems resulting from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. In 2006, 13,969 active-duty servicemen and servicewomen with incident TBI were treated in the military medical system; of those, 7.6 percent were hospitalized [1]. Whi...

Objective: To determine the etiology and severity of various forms of ocular war injuries in patients presenting at an Army Hospital in Pakistan. Methods: This cross sectional study was conducted at the Department of Ophthalmology, Combined Military Hospital, Peshawar over four years period from June 2012 through March 2016, Two hundred ten consecutive soldiers who presented with ocular war inj...

The article is devoted to the description of Italian awards (crosses, medals, badges and diplomas) established during following First World War. author tells about history institution, appearance, materials manufacturing main occurring variants award for combatants (for bravery, injury or participation in a world conflict) civilians (relatives personnel killed war service), as well specifics aw...

We report a case of a 10-year-old boy presenting with radial nerve palsy due to injury during a tug-of-war game. Patient was managed nonoperatively and regained radial nerve function. Tug-of-war is a globally popular noncontact sport. Injuries during this game are inevitable and may range from simple sprains to life and limb threatening trauma. Combined hip and knee injuries and soft-tissue inj...

Recent research has provided compelling evidence of mental health problems in military spouses and children, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), related to the war-zone deployments, combat exposures, and post-deployment mental health symptoms experienced by military service members in the family. One obstacle to further research and federal programs targeting the psychological heal...

OBJECTIVES We estimated war-related Iraqi mortality for the period 1980 through 1993. METHOD To test our hypothesis that deaths reported by siblings (even dating back several decades) would correspond with war events, we compared sibling mortality reports with the frequency of independent news reports about violent historic events. We used data from a survey of 4,287 adults in 2000 Iraqi hous...