Self-harm in UK armed forces personnel: descriptive and case-control study of general hospital presentations.

Background: Little is known about self-harm in the armed forces.

Aims: To investigate the characteristics of armed forces personnel presenting to a general hospital following self-harm and compare these with matched controls who had self-harmed.

Method: Investigation of armed forces personnel presenting to hospital between 1989 and 2003 following self-harm and case-control comparison with people in the general population who had self-harmed.

Long-term mortality amongst Gulf War Veterans: is there a relationship with experiences during deployment and subsequent morbidity?

Background: Gulf War Veterans have previously been shown to have, in the short-term, an excess risk of death from 'external' (i.e. non-disease) causes of death.