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[Global News Blog Headlines] Afghanistan - US not losing Afghan war, but Taliban has momentum ...: One of the key combat-medicine innovations of the Iraq war was the use of platelet transfusions to stop bleeding. And as Afghanistan supplants Iraq in U.S. casualties, the military has begun diverting platelets there

[News Updated Frequently] Also Moving From Iraq To Afghanistan: Blood Platelets | News ...: The meeting comes as the deadliest month for U.S. troops in eight years of war draws to a close ”” a spike in casualties that has already triggered a flow of precious reinforcements. The U.S. military has begun for the first time transferring from Iraq to Afghanistan pint-sized bags of platelets ”” the key blood component that encourages clotting and can prevent wounded soldiers from bleeding to death.

[blooddonors] Afghanistan: U.S. Forces Ship Blood Platelets from Iraq (Time.com ...: One of the key combat-medicine innovations of the Iraq war was the use of platelet transfusions to stop bleeding.

[Security] Sources: Abdullah to pull out of Afghan runoff (AP) -Yahoo News ...: A Westerner close to talks between the two sides said their agenda also included a power-sharing proposal by the challenger and cited both Karzai and Abdullah as saying that talks broke down Friday, prompting Abdullah to decide on a boycott of the Nov. 7 runoff.

[Stars and Stripes] Report: Unscreened blood posed danger | Stars and Stripes: The U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research tested 2,831 units of unscreened blood transfused in Iraq and Afghanistan between May 2003 and February 2006. Testing showed three units were tainted with hepatitis C and two were positive for human T-cell lymphotropic virus, which can later develop into untreatable, fatal leukemia and other debilitating diseases, the institute reported in a 2007 study.

[Political Buzz] Political Buzz - » Pork, by any other name, but these earmarks ...: This valuable perimeter security tool would protect U.S. troops deployed at small bases in Iraq and Afghanistan. Malaria Vaccine Development Recipient: Seattle Biomedical Research Institute (SBRI) Amount: $5000000.

[Anderson Cooper 360] Anderson Cooper 360: Blog Archive - One common goal « - Blogs from ...: Although polls have shown that support for the war in Afghanistan has eroded over the months and Americans are uncertain about what can actually be accomplished by our troops being there, this post makes it clear what the real goals are and why it's so important that we continue to try and achieve them–great writing Anderson and the reports from on the program this week from Afghanistan have really been excellent.

[Marine Corps Times - News] Lawmakers to hold news briefing on burn pits - MarineCorpsTimes.com: Sponsors of a bill aimed at more tightly regulating the use of open-air burn pits for waste disposal in Iraq and Afghanistan will hold a news conference Thursday to highlight the effects on troops of possible exposure to toxins from burn-pit smoke.

[Home Fires] Verses in Wartime (Part 2: From the Home Front) - Home Fires Blog ...: Many might try to suppress this idea (as the “I” character does in this poem by setting out to bury these ghosts as they stand there in the moonlight). If we learn who the dead are and what they were like, if we allow the dead their own unique humanity, we risk the possibility of being overwhelmed by loss.

[Science Blog - Science news straight from the source] Early predictive model may be new 'weapon' against leading cause ...: Based on a stepwise logistic regression analysis, a hemoglobin level ¡Ü11 grams/deciliter (g/dL), INR >1.5 and a penetrating injury mechanism (e.g., injuries resulting from improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and high-powered weapons), were found to be independently predictive of the need for MT. The single most predictive variable was a hemoglobin level ¡Ü11 g/dL, with an odds ratio of 7.7.

[The Art of Nonconformity] The Art of Nonconformity » Conversations in Karachi: Let’s not also forget that this is a highly Muslim-concentrated area, the Islamic concept of duty to come to the aid of fellow Muslims would no doubt ensure a huge influx of jihadists in this type of a scenario. Why on earth would we want to intentionally provoke a situation that would not only radicalize existing moderates in the region, but could also potentially cause the influx of a concentration of radical jihadists from elsewhere into an already unstable region (that has nuclear weapons no less)?

[Michael Yon - Online Magazine] Do Americans Care about British Soldiers?: So are you saying this specific, specialized treatement IS available in the USA, or is it ONLY available at the specialized center in Germany where it was developed (presumably in relation to the conflict in Iraq) - you seem to be implying it is available in the USA anddenigrading the British health care system, but you don't actually say that it is available in the USA?

[Blue Hampshire] Blue Hampshire: Politics ::: Carol Shea-Porter Leading the Fight ...:  While a common practice within the Iraqi waste disposal system, the Department of Defense (DOD) has used open air burn pits as the primary means of waste disposal for its numerous FOBs in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Servicemembers and contractors living on these bases are routinely exposed to the smoke from these pits as the winds shift and waste from medical facilities, trash, dining facilities, maintenance facilities, and other agencies on base is incinerated.

[Guy Fawkes' blog] Government Overspending £258 Million Per Day - Guy Fawkes' blog: up somewhere decidedly rudeHow do they think we all managed before all this twaddle arrivedThrough wars, poverty, depravation a hell of a lot still survivedNobody made a commotion if a schoolteacher gave you the caneIt was considered unmanly if you couldn’t cope with the painVillains broke rocks up on Dartmoor and murderers paid with their livesFisticuffs settled a dispute for only a coward used knivesHooligans given a birching, till their backsides were blooded and soreIt’s hard to look tough when you’re crying so very few went back for moreSo don’t patronise me with this drivel, my generations not denseWe have learned how to roll with life’s punches by just using sound common senseIf we could just gaze in a crystal and the next fifty years we could glimpseThen I for one feel pretty certain we will then have a nation of wimpsNone of us need to be coddled, we don’t need it all on a plateLet’s stand up to all these busybodies and jettison the nanny stateThe result of this do-gooder nonsense is not very hard to detectBy the loss of respect for each other and virtually no self respectGone are the days of the nit-nurse, and gone is the headmasters caneIs society better off for it? well, perhaps we should all think again

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