Deadly outbreaks have plagued societies for centuries. But they can lead to medical breakthroughs—if we learn the right lessons from them.
Many American veterans of the Vietnam War continue to suffer from health problems, some of which are passed onto their children. Perhaps no Agent Orange story is complete without discussing Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr., a Navy admiral who commanded naval forces in Vietnam and was credited with helping...
Alex Plitsas: People have seen too many movies. They're thinking, you know, you're gonna see GI Joe show up in a giant truck. What you need are people who can blend in, in the area. So local national Palestinian Arabs who speak Arabic with a Gazan accent who are, have a r...
The studies are small, but the results are encouraging [source: Delahanty, et al]. Virtual reality is also being used to help treat people with PTSD. It has reduced chronic PTSD symptoms in Vietnam veterans and is particularly useful for people who can't or won't access their emotions in...
“There are so many things going on at the same time: physical aspects, social aspects, creative aspects. All these things come together.” This is uniquely challenging for the brain – and therefore uniquely good for the brain. “Because the best way to stress the brain as much as possibl...
This is crucial, as agents and editors are (as I believe I have mentioned before) MAGNIFICENTLY busy people; they honestly do prefer to work with writers to whom they will not have to explain each and every nuance of the road to publication. (That’s my job.) By the time many first...
Topic: In 1866, the Ku Klux Klan was founded by many former confederate veterans in retaliation to their current Republican Party’s Reconstruction-era policies aimed at establishing political and economic equality for blacks. The Reconstruction era sparked by President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamatio...
61,62 How many of these effects are directly associated with PCC, changes in the economy during the pandemic, or both remains unclear. Magnifying the potential financial burden imposed on people by PCC due to reduced or no ability to work is the fact that medical and care costs may rise ...
How about you actually care and help out Americans like retired veterans fighting for food stamps or 9/11 firefighters fighting for healthcare as they die to cancers before you worry about areas of Ukraine - - - Updated - - - I'm never a fan of whataboutism. These are complex iss...
Many hoped rail would be Ukraine’s secret weapon in maintaining its status as one of the world’s largest grain exporters after Black Sea ports were blockaded by the Russian navy, but track gauge differences and difficulties in creating priority corridors through Poland and Hungary to EU ports ...