Military Personnel And Their Partners Can Not Get Quality Treatment.
A doctor with involvement caring for armed forces personnel says the US military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" tactic puts both service members and the encyclopaedic public at risk by encouraging secrecy about sexual health issues. "Infections go undiagnosed. Service members and their partners go untreated," Dr Kenneth Katz, a medical 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 bonking with worship members who misconstrue out on programs aimed at preventing the spread of the HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, as well as other sexually transmitted diseases, Katz wrote. The soldierly is currently pondering the end of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, which does not tolerate gay service members to serve openly. No one knows how many gays are in the armed forces. However, one 2002 work found that active-duty Navy sailors made up 9 percent of the patients who visited one homosexual men's health clinic in San Diego.
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Monday 30 December 2013
Monday 25 November 2013
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 recent review finds that popular epilogue pills and powders found for sale at many military bases, including those that claim to boost energy and domination weight, often fail to properly describe their caffeine levels. Some of these products - also sold at health-food stores across the county - didn't stipulate any information about caffeine on their labels undeterred by being packed with it, and others had more or much less caffeine than their labels indicated. "Fewer than half of the supplements had for detail and useful information about caffeine on the label," said study lead author Dr Pieter Cohen, aid professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. "If you're looking for these products to aide boost your performance, some aren't going to work and you're successful 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 sum to existing knowledge about how much caffeine is being consumed by members of the military. Athletes and members of the military, they said, pretence 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 false facts at a mainstream supplement retailer"?
He also explained the specific military concern. "We already skilled in that troops are drinking a lot of coffee and using a lot of energy drinks and shots," Cohen said. "Forty-five percent of effective troops were using energy drinks on a daily basis while they were in Afghanistan and Iraq. We're talking about stocky amounts of caffeine consumed, and our question is: What's growing on on top of that?"
A recent review finds that popular epilogue pills and powders found for sale at many military bases, including those that claim to boost energy and domination weight, often fail to properly describe their caffeine levels. Some of these products - also sold at health-food stores across the county - didn't stipulate any information about caffeine on their labels undeterred by being packed with it, and others had more or much less caffeine than their labels indicated. "Fewer than half of the supplements had for detail and useful information about caffeine on the label," said study lead author Dr Pieter Cohen, aid professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. "If you're looking for these products to aide boost your performance, some aren't going to work and you're successful 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 sum to existing knowledge about how much caffeine is being consumed by members of the military. Athletes and members of the military, they said, pretence 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 false facts at a mainstream supplement retailer"?
He also explained the specific military concern. "We already skilled in that troops are drinking a lot of coffee and using a lot of energy drinks and shots," Cohen said. "Forty-five percent of effective troops were using energy drinks on a daily basis while they were in Afghanistan and Iraq. We're talking about stocky amounts of caffeine consumed, and our question is: What's growing on on top of that?"
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