Today's Globe: troops' mental illness, flu, child abuse, water bottles, incontinence drugs and memory, Donald Greene

Jackie Smith welcomed her husband, Staff Sergeant Steven Smith of the 1st
Brigade Combat Team, 3d Infantry Division, at a homecoming ceremony at
Fort Stewart in Georgia. (John Carrington/Savannah Morning News via
Associated Press)

The latest and most comprehensive study of veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars has concluded that nearly 1 in every 5 veterans is suffering from depression or stress disorders and that many are not getting adequate care.

This year's flu season has shaped up to be the worst in four years, partly because the vaccine didn't work well against the viruses that made most people sick, health officials said yesterday.

"The deaths of Dontel Jeffers, Rebecca Riley, and Liquarry Jefferson, and the horrifying injuries sustained by Haleigh Poutre reveal not just cracks but gaping holes in our state's child welfare system," Marylou Sudders, president and CEO of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and MSPCC board member Maureen Flatley write on the op-ed page. "We all must share a sense of urgency about the child abuse crisis in Massachusetts."

Nalgene, the brand that popularized water bottles made from hard, clear, and nearly unbreakable polycarbonate, will stop using the plastic because of growing concern over one of its ingredients.

Commonly used incontinence drugs may cause memory problems in some older people, a study has found.

Dr. Donald Sumner Greene (left), a neurologist who served on the staffs of several hospitals, died of Alzheimer's disease - the disease he was an expert at treating - on March 25 in Jamaica Plain. He was 78 and lived in Boston, previously in Brookline. He served as a resident in psychiatry at Boston State Hospital and became chief resident in neurology at the Boston VA Hospital. For 40 years, he had a private neurology practice on Beacon Street in Brookline and served on the staffs of New England Baptist Hospital, St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, and New England Medical Center.