Showing posts with label military. Show all posts
Showing posts with label military. Show all posts

Tuesday, 17 January 2017

Military Personnel And Their Partners Can Not Get Quality Treatment

Military Personnel And Their Partners Can Not Get Quality Treatment.
A medical doctor with practice caring for armed forces personnel says the US military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" regulation puts both service members and the prevalent public at risk by encouraging secrecy about sexual health issues. "Infections go undiagnosed. Service members and their partners go untreated," Dr Kenneth Katz, a doctor at San Diego State University and the University of California at San Diego, wrote in a commentary published Dec 1, 2010 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

And civilians "pay a price" because they have mating with employ members who feel nostalgia for out on programs aimed at preventing the spread of the HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, as well as other sexually transmitted diseases. The soldiery is currently pondering the end of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, which does not brook gay service members to serve openly. No one knows how many gays are in the armed forces. However, one 2002 scan found that active-duty Navy sailors made up 9 percent of the patients who visited one vivid men's health clinic in San Diego.

Saturday, 10 September 2016

The Amount Of Caffeine Is Not Specified In Dietary Supplements For The Military

The Amount Of Caffeine Is Not Specified In Dietary Supplements For The Military.
A restored meditate on finds that popular insert pills and powders found for sale at many military bases, including those that claim to boost energy and oversee weight, often fail to properly describe their caffeine levels. Some of these products - also sold at health-food stores across the county - didn't accommodate any information about caffeine on their labels regard for being packed with it, and others had more or much less caffeine than their labels indicated. "Fewer than half of the supplements had correct and useful information about caffeine on the label," said study lead author Dr Pieter Cohen, aide-de-camp professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. "If you're looking for these products to remedy boost your performance, some aren't going to work and you're contemporary to be disappointed. And some have much more caffeine than on the label".

Researchers launched the study, funded by the US Department of Defense, to tot to existing knowledge about how much caffeine is being consumed by members of the military. Athletes and members of the fighting face a risk of health problems when they consume too much caffeine and exercise in the heat. Cohen emphasized that the supplements were purchased in civilian stores: "Why is it that 25 percent of the products labels with caffeine had off the mark news at a mainstream supplement retailer"?

He also explained the specific military concern. "We already be aware that troops are drinking a lot of coffee and using a lot of energy drinks and shots. Forty-five percent of influential troops were using energy drinks on a daily basis while they were in Afghanistan and Iraq. We're talking about bountiful amounts of caffeine consumed, and our question is: What's going on on top of that?"