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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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National Call Center coming to Waco VA
Written by Patrick Tolbert
Thursday, 13 August 2009 09:14
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August 12, 2009, Waco, TX - More than 200 jobs will be created at the Waco VA Hospital as part of a new National call center announced Wednesday in Waco.
U.S. Representative Chet Edwards along with Department of Veteran Affairs Secretary Eric K. Shinseki were in Waco to make the announcement about the creation of a National Pharmacy Contact Center. The center will employ 224 full and part time call takers who will provide information and answers to questions about medications from individual veterans and one-third of the VA's pharmacies. "The new center will be there to answer questions from veterans about their prescriptions, and work with VA facilities so that VA practitioners can address critical issues promptly and safely," Shinseki said. The move to create the call center was made as part of the Department of Veterans Affairs initiative to improve customer service and enhance access to care at VA medical centers. "Not only will adding a national call center at the Waco VA create local 224 new jobs in tough economic times," Edwards said, "The men and women who are employed will know they are giving something back to the veterans who have sacrificed so much for our nation." Building 90 on the Waco VA campus will be renovated to house the call center under a $4.5 million contract beginning in September. Edwards continued, "The National Pharmacy Contact Center brings us one step closer to realizing the dream of those of us who fought so hard to keep the Waco VA open-the dream that this campus one day be fully utilized for the benefit of America's veterans. "By selecting Waco", Edwards said, "the VA takes advantage of an existing VA facility and a community that has proven for over 70 years its commitment to caring for veterans." The Waco VA also received $7.9 Million in projects funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
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