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Women and war: what physicians should know.   Murdoch M, Bradley A, Mather SH, Klein RE, Turner CL, Yano EM.  J Gen Intern Med.  2006; 21 Suppl 3:S5-10.  http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1513175
Association of posttraumatic stress disorder with somatic symptoms, health care visits, and absenteeism among Iraq war veterans.  Hoge CW, Terhakopian A, Castro CA, Messer SC, Engel CC.  Am J Psychiatry.  2007; 164:150-3.  http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/164/1/150
Bringing the war back home: mental health disorders among 103 788 US veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan seen at Department of Veterans Affairs facilities.  Seal KH, Bertenthal D, Miner CR, Sen S, Marmar C.  Arch Intern Med.  2007; 167:476-82.  http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/167/5/476
Mild traumatic brain injury in U.  S.  soldiers returning from Iraq.  Hoge CW, McGurk D, Thomas JL, Cox AL, Engel CC, Castro CA.  N Engl J Med.  2008; 358:453-63.  http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/358/5/453
Veterans' mental health in the wake of war.  Friedman MJ.  N Engl J Med.  2005; 352:1287-90.  http://www-nehc.med.navy.mil/downloads/hp/friedman.pdf
Posttraumatic stress disorder among military returnees from Afghanistan and Iraq.  Friedman MJ.  Am J Psychiatry.  2006; 163:586-93.  http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/163/4/586
Childhood adversity and combat as predictors of depression and post-traumatic stress in deployed troops.  Cabrera OA, Hoge CW, Bliese PD, Castro CA, Messer SC.  Am J Prev Med.  2007; 33:77-82.  http://download.journals.elsevierhealth.com/pdfs/journals/0749-3797/PIIS0749379707002358.pdf
Explanations for the increase in mental health problems in UK reserve forces who have served in Iraq.  Browne T, Hull L, Horn O, et al.  Br J Psychiatry.  2007; 190:484-9.  http://bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/full/190/6/484
Combat and peacekeeping operations in relation to prevalence of mental disorders and perceived need for mental health care.  Sareen J, Cox BJ, Afifi TO, et al.  Arch Gen Psychiatry.  2007; 64:843-52.  http://archpsyc.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/64/7/843
The occupational burden of mental disorders in the U.  S.  military: psychiatric hospitalizations, involuntary separations, and disability.  Hoge CW, Toboni HE, Messer SC, Bell N, Amoroso P, Orman DT.  Am J Psychiatry.  2005; 162:585-91.  http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/162/3/585
Strengthening the validity of population-based suicide rate comparisons: an illustration using U.  S.  military and civilian data.  Eaton KM, Messer SC, Garvey Wilson AL, Hoge CW.  Suicide Life Threat Behav.  2006; 36:182-91.  http://www.atypon-link.com/GPI/doi/pdf/10.1521/suli.2006.36.2.182?cookieSet=1
Suicidal and homicidal soldiers in deployment environments.  Hill JV, Johnson RC, Barton RA.  Milit Med.  2006; 171(3):228-32.  http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3912/is_/ai_n16111519
The ethics of interrogation - the U.  S.  military’s ongoing use of psychiatrists.  Marks JH, Bloche MG.  N Engl J Med.  2008; 359:1090-2.  http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/359/11/1090
The complex world of military medicine.  Winkenwerder W, Galvin R.  Health Affairs.  2005; W5(Suppl Web Exclusives):353-60.  http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/hlthaff.w5.353/DC1
Serve, support, simplify: President’s Commission on Care for America’s Returning Wounded Warriors.  Final Report.  Washington, DC: The Commission;  2007.  Available at: http://www.arfp.org/skins/ARFP/display.aspx?moduleid=2a285ab0-5db1-4f36-9b91-f2263c973c32&mode=user.  Accessed Aug 9, 2008. 
PTSD compensation and military service.  Institute of Medicine.  Washington, DC: National Academies Press;  2007.  Available at: http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11870.  Accessed November 20, 2008. 
Make mental health a priority: when service members go untreated, the entire military suffers.  Lieberman J, Boxer B.  Army Times.  2007; 68(3):42.  Available at: http://www.armytimes.com/community/opinion/.  Accessed November 20, 2008. 
A discourse analysis of Navy leaders' attitudes about mental health problems.  Westphal RJ.  Charlottesville, VA: Department of Nursing, PhD Dissertation;  2004.  Available at: http://stinet.dtic.mil/.  Accessed November 20, 2008. 
Statistical Abstract of the United States, 2008.  U.  S.  Census Bureau.  Available at: http://www.census.gov/.  Accessed Aug 9, 2008. 
How Specialist Town lost his benefits.  Kors J.  The Nation.  2007 (April 9); 284(14):11-21.  http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070409/kors
Soldiers' suicide rate on pace to set record.  Tyson AS.  Washington Post.  (September 5, 2008).  Available at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/04/AR2008090403333.html.  Accessed November 20, 2008.  
Army suicide rate jumps In 2007.  CBS News.  (January 31, 2008).  Available at: http://cbs3.com/national/army.suicide.rate.2.642286.html.  Accessed November 20, 2008.  
Executive excess 2006: 13th annual CEO compensation survey.  Anderson S, Cavanagh J, Collins C, Benjamin E.  Washington, DC, and Boston, MA: Institute for Policy Studies and United for a Fair Economy;  2007: 8-9.  Available at: www.ips-dc.org/getfile.php?id=155.  Accessed November 20, 2008. 
Winter Soldier.  Iraq and Afghanistan.  Available at: http://ivaw.org/wintersoldier.  Accessed November 20, 2008. 
Soldiers face neglect, frustration at Army's top medical facility.  Priest D, Hall A.  Washington Post.  (February 18, 2008):A01.  Available at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/17/AR2007021701172.html.  Accessed November 20, 2008. 

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Suicide surveillance in the U.  S.  military –reporting and classification biases in rate calculations.  Carr JR, Hoge CW, Gardner J, Potter R.  Suicide Life Threat Behav.  2004; 34:233-41.  http://www.atypon-link.com/GPI/doi/abs/10.1521/suli.34.3.233.42785
The health of UK military personnel who deployed to the 2003 Iraq war: a cohort study.  Hotopf M, Hull L, Fear NT, et al.  Lancet.  2006; 367:1731-41.  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16731268
The Veterans Health Administration and military sexual trauma.  Kimerling R, Gima K, Smith MW, Street A, Frayne S, Am J Public Health.  2007; 97:2160-6.  http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/97/12/2160
Effects of military trauma exposure on women veterans' use and perceptions of Veterans Health Administration care.  Kelly MM, Vogt DS, Scheiderer EM, Ouimette P, Daley J, Wolfe J.  J Gen Intern Med.  2008; 23:741-7.   http://www.springerlink.com/content/b0m56572mk171541/
War and military mental health: the US psychiatric response in the twentieth century.  Pols H, Oak S.  Am J Public Health.  2007; 97:2132-42.   http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/97/12/2132

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Counterpunch
How Psychologists Profit on Unending U.S. Wars
"While positive psychology makes some sense for teenagers who are catastrophizing their first relationship breakup to the point of becoming suicidal, how much sense does it make to teach soldiers who are trying to stay alive in a war zone to put a positive spin on everything?"
USA Today
Mental illness costing military soldiers
"Soldiers discharged for having both a mental and a physical disability increased 174% during the past five years from 1,397 in 2005 to 3,831 in 2009, according to the statistics."
Chicago Sun Times
'Scary' growth of gangs in war zones
"Gang members are coming home now with one or two tours," he said. "Some were on the field of battle."
CNN
June was worst month for Army suicides, statistics show
"The statistics show that 32 soldiers killed themselves in June, the highest number in a single month since the Vietnam era. "
CurrentTV
War Crimes (video)
"A growing number of these vets are being charged with violent crimes, and Kaj travels to prisons and mental health facilities in Arizona, Colorado and Oregon to hear their stories. "
Christian Science Monitor
PTSD: New regs will make it easier for war vets to get help
"In essence, vets will no longer have to document a specific traumatic event – witnessing violent death, for example, or coming under heavy enemy fire – in order to demonstrate that they should be treated or receive disability payments for PTSD."
Washington Post
In 'Restrepo,' the Afghan war's brutality as viewed through the soldier's scope
"The war in Afghanistan has become highly politicized, but soldiers rarely take part in that discussion. Our intention was to capture the experience of combat, boredom and fear through the eyes of the soldiers themselves."
New York Times
With Command Shift in Afghanistan, Talk Turns to Withdrawal
"House leaders want to pass a war spending measure... Some liberal lawmakers hope to use the bill to force conditions for scaling back the American military commitment."
LA Times
About 1 in 10 Iraq veterans develops a serious case of PTSD, researchers say
"...a group of experts from the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command examined 13,226 anonymous surveys completed by veterans of Operation Iraqi Freedom...the researchers found that roughly 1 in 10 survey-takers had PTSD that was severe enough to cause 'serious functional impairment.' "


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