The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) needs to make revisions for the evaluations and compensations for veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to a new report on Tuesday from the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council.

The report focuses on symptoms and compensations, and includes the handling of sexual assaults claims of veterans during military service time

Recent research has found that more women than men have been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis over the past few decades. The study found that the two to one ratio of women to men with the disease in the United States in 1940 has grown to approximately four to one in 2000.

The results of the study will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 59th Annual Meeting in Boston, from April 28 to May 5

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has launched National Infant Immunization Week with events being held April 21-April 28 throughout the country.

The CDC in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) stresses the importance to parents to immunize their infants in a timely fashion to prevent childhood diseases

A new study has linked low levels of vitamin D to poor physical performance in older adults. Researchers at North Carolina's Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem made the discovery. Researchers say that older adults who don't get sufficient vitamin D from their diets or from exposure to the sun could be at risk for both poor physical performance and disability.

So getting enough of the vitamin is important, according to lead author Denise Houston, Ph.D

Ahead of the first U.N. Global Road Safety week, beginning April 23, a World Health Organization's (WHO) report reveals that more people are killed by road accidents than HIV/AIDS or cancer. The report says 1.2 million people die in road crashes every year and 50 million more are hurt at an estimated cost of more than $500 billion in lost income and disability.

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies warn the situation, destroying mostly young people, is a worsening disaster hampering development