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CHICAGO -- U.S. military hospitals treated a significant number of wounded and sick children in the early years of the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, a new study finds, and military doctors say children keep arriving at their hospitals today.
With no true front line or battle zone, the war makes children especially vulnerable to stray bullets and other combat hazards, one study author said. And with Iraq's own medical system collapsing, families seek out the U.S. military to help their children with more conventional ailments.See the full content of this document
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Military Docs Treating Iraqi Kids
"I took care of children burned from a kerosene heater, regular car accidents, other injuries secondary to the conflict itself," said study co-author Dr. Philip Spinella, who served as an Army doctor...
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