post-traumatic stress disorder

Taking as inspiration his mother’s own Red Cross service, novelist Luis Alberto Urrea has delivered an overlooked story of women’s heroism in World War II. With its portrait of friendship and valor in harrowing circumstances, "Good Night, Irene," explores the "Donut Dollies," an all-women volunteer group launched by the Red Cross during WWII.

Award-winning writer and public health executive Michelle Bowdler's new memoir, "Is Rape a Crime?," indicts how sexual violence has been addressed for…

A New York state Senator from the Hudson Valley and a Long Island county executive were in Rockland County Thursday standing alongside several veterans.…

In the 1990s, a “purity industry” emerged out of the white evangelical Christian culture. Purity rings, purity pledges, and purity balls came with a…

Honored for his groundbreaking work in the spiritual, holistic and community-based healing of veterans and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Dr. Ed…

A decorated Army sergeant from Rockland County has died in Colorado, leaving behind a wife and daughter.Rockland County Executive Ed Day says 28-year-old…

Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew…

Exposure to trauma doesn't necessarily dictate PTSD for the victim.Dr. Norah Feeny, professor of psychology at Case Western Reserve University, is…

The Veterans Administration Medical Center in Vermont is leading a national study to compare two methods of treating post-traumatic stress disorder.The…

A number of state and local elected officials will be on hand in New York’s Hudson Valley this afternoon to announce the expansion of a veterans…