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| Presdent Obama Donated $250,000 of Nobel Prize Money to Fisher House |
March 11, 2010, Washington, DC (New York Times) - President Obama made good on his promise to give his $1.4 million Nobel Prize money to charity, releasing the names on Thursday of the organizations that will benefit. |
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| Dr. Haley at UTSW Presents Compelling Brain Images Showing Gulf War Illness |
VCS Asks VA: Since UTSW Research Remains Vital to Understanding Gulf War Illness, Then Why Did a Handful of VA Staff in Washington Impede UTSW Contract and Then End Funding for UTSW? March 9, 2010, Salt Lake City, Utah (Science News) - Nearly two decades after vets began returning from the Middle East complaining of Gulf War Syndrome, the federal government has yet to formally accept that their vague jumble of symptoms constitutes a legitimate illness. Here, at the Society of Toxicology annual meeting, yesterday, researchers rolled out a host of brain images – various types of magnetic-resonance scans and brain-wave measurements – that they say graphically and unambiguously depict Gulf War Syndrome. |
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| March 9 VCS Weekly Update |
This week’s VCS update keeps you in the loop with news on issues you care about. One good change – our weekly news updates won’t ask you for money. Instead, our news updates point you to news articles at our web site. We hope you will read them and share the important facts with your friends. This week's update includes news about VA and suicides, VCS on CNN, our VCS FOIA campaign, VA automating Agent Orange claims, a waterboarding torture video, and Gulf War veterans' benefits. |
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| Federal Court Keeps Torture Lawsuit Against Rumsfeld Alive |
What's Waterboarding? Watch Video of Torture March 5, 2010, Chicago, Illinois (Associated Press) - A federal judge refused Friday to dismiss a civil lawsuit accusing former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld of responsibility for the alleged torture by U.S. forces of two Americans who worked for an Iraqi contracting firm. [Rumsfeld served at the Pentagon under former President George W. Bush.] |
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| Reducing Suicides: VA Adopts Policy on Emergency Care for Mental Health Patients |
This Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Directive provides policy to ensure the provision of safe and secure mental health services during all hours of operation for Emergency Departments (EDs) and Urgent Care Clinics (UCCs) in VHA |
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U.S. Court to Hear Appeals in VCS Lawsuit Case Today
Written by CBS
Wednesday, 12 August 2009 09:11
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August 12, 2009 - A federal appeals court will hear arguments in San Francisco today in a high-profile case concerning health care for veterans. A three-judge panel will hear arguments on an appeal by two veterans' groups of a trial judge's rejection of their bid for an injunction requiring the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to provide better mental health care and an overhaul in the claims process. Veterans for Common Sense and Veterans United for Truth claim that care and suicide prevention for veterans suffering stress from combat in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq is woefully inadequate. The trial judge, U.S. District Judge Samuel Conti, ruled in San Francisco last year that the remedies sought by the groups "are beyond the power of this court." Gordon Erspamer, a lawyer for the veterans, said this week, "The appeal presents the issue of whether the federal courts are powerless to act when a huge federal bureaucracy fails to fulfill its legal duty to our returning heroes." The panel hearing the case is made up of Chief 9th Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski and Circuit Judges Procter Hug and Stephen Reinhardt. Watch the hearing live at 9:30 AM, PST on C-SPAN . |