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August 2012

Telemental Healthcare Beneficial For Rural Vets with PTSD

A new study suggests that providing more telemental health could have an especially beneficial effect on treatment of rural veterans with PTSD.1

Checklist of Environmental Hazards Helps Reduce Inpatient Suicides in VAMCs

WASHINGTON — When receiving care in a hospital, suicidal patients could take advantage of anything from bedding to belts to kill themselves.

New Diabetes Guidelines Offer More Leeway for Primary-Care Physicians, Patients

SAN DIEGO — What is an appropriate blood glucose level for patients with diabetes?

Joining Reserve at 60, Dermatologist Wins Awards for Army Skin Cancer Screenings

IRVINE, CA--At age 60, when many men are starting to wind down their careers and transition toward retirement, Lt. Col. Dore Gilbert, MD, a practicing dermatologist and associate professor of dermatology at the University of California at Irvine, decided to follow a very different path. He joined the U.S. Army Reserve.

CPAP Use Improves Sexual Function in Younger Men

While continuous positive airway pressure therapy (CPAP) improves rest and conditions related to sleep disruption, it has another benefit especially important to patients: an improvement in sexual function and satisfaction.

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