Medical schools taking up call to serve veterans - Your Houston News

  • By zz-omni-cms
  • January 30, 2012

War veterans returning to the Greater Houston Area may soon benefit from research showing trauma they experienced on the battlefield is not so different from that suffered by some civilian accident victims.

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Other Texas medical schools participating are Baylor College of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and the University of North Texas Health Science Center.

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