Pulse
Decades after the war, some Vietnam veterans are falling ill to diseases associated with exposure to Agent Orange, unaware of the benefits available to them.
Nearly one in four women veterans has experienced military sexual trauma. They and other women veterans can now get counseling and medical care at VA clinics just for them.
University of Minnesota bioethicist Steven Miles, M.D., isn’t letting up in his quest to end the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
Civilian doctors will likely be caring for many veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan with service-related health problems.
Book Review
By Charles Meyer, M.D.
The Assassins’ Gate is a primer on the thinking that led us into war and a glimpse at the quagmire that won’t let us out.