Inhalation of depleted uranium from exploding munitions did not lead to Gulf War illness (GWI) in veterans deployed in the 1991 Persian Gulf War, a new study co-authored by a leading researcher of the disease at UT Southwestern suggests. The findings, published today in Scientific Reports, help eliminate a long-suspected cause of GWI that has […]
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US, UK and Spain deaths mount and now virus threatens war zones
Deaths from the global coronavirus epidemic accelerated again on Friday as the US, Spain and Britain grappled with their highest tolls yet and the world economy took a massive hit. With more than 53,000 dead, the threat has never been more stark. Experts warn that the more than one million cases of COVID-19 confirmed globally […]
You want to fall asleep in 2 minutes? A military Trick from the 2. World war to make it possible – Video
Can’t sleep: everyone knows. Instead of hot milk, and eternal read to help now a Trick in the US Army, developed in the Second world war against the insomnia. In a maximum of two minutes he shall put you to Sleep. Many people fall Asleep hard in the evening. To recover instead from the day, […]
This Ebola drug is heading to the Congo. Can it be tested during civil war?
As the fast-moving Ebola virus sweeps through eastern Congo, scientists are braving war zones hoping to test new medicines on sick patients there. Despite civil unrest in the region, Doctors Without Borders has set up testing sites in the cities of Butembo and Beni, the latest hot spots of the current Ebola outbreak in the […]
Battles begin to turn in long war on TB
It kills millions of people and is carried by a quarter of humans, yet there has been just a handful of new drugs in decades and the only vaccine is a century old. Tuberculosis, a curable and preventable lung infection, killed more than 1.6 million people last year—almost as many as HIV/AIDS and malaria combined—and […]
Vietnam War veteran donates life-saving kidney to fellow US airman after reuniting nearly 50 years later
Veteran donates kidney to fellow soldier Life-saving kidney donation between Vietnam veterans. Two Vietnam veterans who reunited nearly 50 years after they served in the Air Force together now share more than war stories. Doug Coffman donated a kidney to Jim McGee on Tuesday, just three months after they reunited since last seeing each other […]