Tens of Thousands Have TBI, Officials Say
Kelly Kennedy, Army Times: "As Army officials announced the beginning of Brain Injury Awareness Month, they offered up a figure that makes it hard to believe anyone in the military could be unaware of the problem: Between 45,000 and 90,000 troops have been treated for traumatic brain injury symptoms ranging from headaches to vision problems to an inability to function beyond a coma state."
http://www.truthout.org/030609L
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Brain-injured GIs Could Number 360,000
The estimate of the number injured - the vast majority of them suffering concussions - represents 20 percent of the roughly 1.8 million men and women who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
http://www.military.com/news/article/braininjured-gis-could-number-360000.html?ESRC=eb.nl
From Information Clearing House
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=brain+injury
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kelly+Kennedy
http://www.truthout.org/030609L
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Brain-injured GIs Could Number 360,000
The estimate of the number injured - the vast majority of them suffering concussions - represents 20 percent of the roughly 1.8 million men and women who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
http://www.military.com/news/article/braininjured-gis-could-number-360000.html?ESRC=eb.nl
From Information Clearing House
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=brain+injury
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kelly+Kennedy
rudkla - 6. Mär, 19:08
