For Veterans With PTSD, A New Demon

For Veterans With PTSD, A New Demon

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Timothy Fazio, a former Marine who suffers from PTSD, has struggled with addiction to prescription painkillers after tours of duty in Afghanistan and Iraq. M. Scott Brauer for …. He worked as a counselor at a state facility for troubled kids but …
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Ann Jones, War Wounds

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There, tall, multilayered ambulances awaited the wounded for the last leg of their many-thousand-mile journey to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington D.C. or the Naval Hospital at Bethesda, Maryland, where, depending upon their injuries, they …
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Self-Treatment of Angioedema on the Rise

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The majority of centers (n = 7) reported that at least half of their patients now self-administer therapy, whether for the acute treatment of an attack or for prophylaxis. More patients were self-administering in the United States than in Europe or …
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Parents demand medical marijuana for kids with relentless seizures

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Many have children with severe seizure disorders that aren't controlled with presently-available drugs. 11/13/2013 Sean …. But Dr. William Trescher, a pediatric neurologist at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, said the body of research …
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