Hopkins AIDS experts issue warning about global efforts to provide drug therapies
...iseases. Eager to return soldiers to active duty, wartime needs outweighed civilian concerns, but this did not sway public opinion that the military was wasting its share of medication. "While the lack of a plan is the worst-case scenario, even a plan with no public input can backfire if it fails to win loc...Historic records shed light on soldiers' lifelong war scars
...early death plague those soldiers with the hardest wartime experiences. "For the first time, we have objective records indicating that horrific war experiences are associated with a lifetime of increased physical disease and mental health difficulties," said Roxane Cohen Silver, UC Irvine professor of psycho...Analysis of Spanish flu cases in 1918-1920 suggests transfusions might help in bird flu pandemic
...well as exacerbated the spread of the disease; and wartime censorship may have affected publication of existing research. (The name "Spanish flu" came from the fact that Spain was not a partner in World War I and its press was freer to report details of the pandemic than press in combatant countries who did ...