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By Emily Schmall - AOL NewsPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Feb. 1) – Nineteen Haitian medical patients, whose injuries ranged from head and spinal cord trauma to pelvic fractures and severe burns, were airlifted from the airport in Port-au-Prince today to Palm Beach, Fla., on an Air Force helicopter after the White House reinstated medical evacuations late Sunday following a five-day suspension. The evacuations were halted Jan. 27 out of concern U.S. hospitals were being strained, according to White House Assistant Press Secretary Tommy Vietor. "Having received assurances that additional capacity exists both here and ...
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By David Wood - Politics DailyFORWARD OPERATING BASE SALERNO, Afghanistan -- They are the invisible casualties of this war, the 2,194 Americans who have been badly wounded in battle here. More are coming. Stunned, torn and bleeding, they are extracted from dusty battlefields in wild, shouting chaos, and because they are so quickly rushed into the hands of trauma nurses and surgeons, more of them survive than in past wars. ...
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