Thumbnail sketches of 10 slain in attack on medical mission in northern Afghanistan

Sketches of 10 people slain in Afghan aid attack

Poison from snakes, scorpions: Without enough doctors, Afghans turn to homeopathic medicine

Homeopathic doctor uses venom to treat Afghans

Friends of doctors gunned down in Afghanistan say medical team wasn’t proselytizing

Slain doctors brought medical care to Afghanistan

Mutilated Afghan girl Aisha to undergo nose rebuilding surgery in US

LONDON - Aisha, the Afghan girl whose controversial photograph depicting her disfigured face on a Time magazine cover attracted international attention, is presently in the United States to have her nose rebuilt.

Soldiers blinded in Iraq and Afghanistan find new niches in continued military service

In blindness, soldiers find new niche in military

VP Biden’s elder son, Delaware AG Beau Biden, making progress at Philly hospital after stroke

Biden son progresses at Pa. hospital after stroke

Del. AG’s office: Biden makes progress in stroke recovery, looks forward to returning to work

Del. AG’s office: Biden makes progress in hospital

Obama says Pakistan recognizing need to act against extremists; a ‘cancer in their midst’

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3 medical workers detained in southern Afghanistan freed after a week in custody

3 Italian aid workers freed in Afghanistan

To war and back and back again: Multiple tours linked to higher risk of PTSD

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Study: Combat injuries not the leading reason US soldiers are medically evacuated from wars

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Afghan public health ministry reports 11 swine flu deaths, hundreds of troops battling virus

swine flu arrives in north

Obama to sign Ryan White extension, meet with military advisers on Afghanistan and Pakistan

HIV, Afghanistan, and Pakistan on Obama’s agenda

AP interview: Russian drug control chief urges more aggressive US action on Afghan drugs

Russia: US fight against Afghan drugs insufficient

MOSCOW — Russia’s drug czar says U.S. and NATO anti-narcotics actions in Afghanistan are woefully insufficient and is calling for joint U.S.-Russian action against the Afghan heroin flooding into the former Soviet Union.

President tours NIH lab, meets with national security team on Afghanistan

Stimulus, Afghanistan policy on Obama’s agenda

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama travels to suburban Maryland on Wednesday to make an announcement about stimulus funding to support research into cures for cancer and other diseases.

Fracture healed by US forces, Afghan toddler injured in rooftop fall makes journey home

Fracture healed by US forces, Afghan boy goes home

DAY KUNDI PROVINCE, Afghanistan — The Afghan father left the mountains on foot, carrying his 2-year-old son, but the health clinic could not treat the skull fracture that blinded the toddler and immobilized his left side. By chance the next day, two American medics stopped by the clinic in Day Kundi Province to check on another patient.

State Department investigating death of US employee hired to help train Afghan national police

Drugs suspected in death of Afghanistan contractor

WASHINGTON — A U.S. contractor in Afghanistan helping train the national police was found dead last week of a possible drug overdose, just months after his company was reprimanded by the State Department for another worker’s drug-related death.

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