It is now confirmed that recovery personnel who first responded a few minutes after the September 11 attacks often suffer from PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), respiratory illness, or both. This finding is funded by several health institutions, including Stony Brook School of Medicine World Trade Center Health Program.
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Though torture has been used for centuries as an instrument of power and terror, new methods of torture tend to leave long-term psychological scars to survivors, according to a recent research from the Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom.
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Sleep disorders are more prevalent among police forces, affecting at least three-fourths of the whole force, than previously thought according to a study sponsored by U.S Department of Justice, CDC and ResMed foundation. In addition, most of them are undetected and have high chance of going on untreated. This can seriously impair optimum performance among officers in duty, the main pillar of peace and security in the society.
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The stressful early separation of children from their biological parents can trigger genetic changes that can affect how they think when they grew up, according to a study made by researchers based in Yale School of Medicine; therefore adoptive parents should be more understanding to keep the orphans’ mental health development as normal as possible. This finding comes from a small-scale study of 14 children who grew since birth in institutions along with same number of children raised by biological parents as controls. In the study, children’s genomes from blood samples, were profiled and examined to determine biological processes in their systems.
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