Leading cause of medical evacuation out of war zones: It's not combat injury
Friday, January 22, 2010 - 11:21
in Health & Medicine
The most common reasons for medical evacuation of military personnel from war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan in recent years have been fractures, tendonitis and other musculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders, not combat injuries, according to results of a Johns Hopkins study published January 22 in the Lancet.