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Earmark Vital To Keeping Fort Drum Area Healthy

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A $400,000 earmark funds an organization that helps connect soldiers and their families at Fort Drum with private-practice doctors. The service was necessary because Fort Drum lacks its own hospital, but it has also helped bolster the region's health care assets as a whole.

Earmark Vital To Keeping Fort Drum Area Healthy

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First Responders, Rescuers Come Forward With PTSD

Michael Ferrara with his German shepherd, Lhotse, at the top of Colorado's Independence Pass Paolo Marchesi/Outside hide caption

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Mental Health

First Responders, Rescuers Come Forward With PTSD

Post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, is usually associated with the battlefield. But it's also turning up in civilian first responders -- search-and-rescue personnel, paramedics and firefighters. Now those communities are trying to destigmatize the disorder and get help to those in need.

First Responders, Rescuers Come Forward With PTSD

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Wednesday

At Bagram, War's Tragedy Yields Medical Advances

A U.S. soldier is brought to the emergency room at the U.S. hospital at Bagram Air Field, north of Kabul, after he was wounded by a roadside bomb in Wardak province, June 2009. The facility uses both cutting-edge technology as well as old techniques discovered anew to treat the massive number of wounded soldiers who pass through. Rafiq Maqbool/AP hide caption

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World

At Bagram, War's Tragedy Yields Medical Advances

U.S. deaths in Afghanistan topped 500 this year, with thousands more wounded. Many of the injured pass through the hospital at Bagram Air Field. Treating so many war wounds brings its own grim benefits: New data are helping save lives in ways that were impossible only a few years ago.

At Bagram, War's Tragedy Yields Medical Advances

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What's A Mental Disorder? Even Experts Can't Agree

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What's A Mental Disorder? Even Experts Can't Agree

The American Psychiatric Association is revising its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual -- the official bible of mental disorders. But proposed changes to the DSM have been drawing criticism from an unlikely source: the psychiatrist who edited the previous edition.

What's A Mental Disorder? Even Experts Can't Agree

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Tuesday

Fitness & Nutrition

Oh, That Hamburger Is 900 Calories? Yes, Please

If you know how many calories are in a hamburger, will that knowledge influence your decision to order it? Dan Ariely, professor of psychology and behavioral economics at Duke University, says most likely not. But you may order less of the side dish -- especially if you're asked.

Oh, That Hamburger Is 900 Calories? Yes, Please

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