PTSD

Years after highly visible, peace-time collisions of ships in the Navy’s Seventh Fleet, the ships are repaired and back in service.

The Congressional Brain Injury Task Force sent a letter to DoD expressing concern about possible blast injuries and concussions of the 11 service members injured in the Jan. 8 attack on Al-Asad Airbase in Iraq.

One of the study’s directors, Dr. Charles Marmar of New York University, discussed his breakthrough research on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson has questioned the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) method for reporting customer service satisfaction, calling it misleading.  

In today’s Federal Newscast, the Office of Personnel Management produced a series of templates to help agencies make requests for recruitment, retention and relocation incentives more easily.

Like NFL players, service members are vulnerable to head injuries that may cause long-term damage.

Federal programs are failing to meet the needs of the more than two million women veterans in the U. S., many of whom are suffering from the invisible wounds of service-related trauma and stress.

Federal contractor Accenture is among the supporters of the non-profit Boulder Crest’s efforts to help veterans realize their potential as regular citizens.

The Warrior Transition Battalion at Madigan Army Medical Center in Washington State has added diving with sharks to its list of coping skills to teach wounded soldiers

Post traumatic stress syndrome presents a continuous challenge to military doctors. No single treatment works for everyone or in every circumstance. Now the Army has launched a study to test a novel way of treating PTSD with an injection to the neck. Dr. Ron Hoover, senior scientist and PTSD research portfolio manager for the Army, provides details on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.