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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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| Senator Hutchison Supports Gulf War Research at University of Texas Southwestern |
Texas Senator Calls VA Decision ‘Vindication’ for Gulf War Veterans February 28, 2010 - (Press Release) U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison released the following statement concerning the Department of Veterans Affairs decision to reconsider the rejected claims of Gulf War veterans: |
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Specter, Sestak to Speak Separately to Veterans Here
Written by Peter Mucha
Monday, 17 August 2009 10:11
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August 17, 2009 - Sen. Arlen Specter and Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki were to speak with veterans at a morning forum at Drexel University. The intended focus was veteran's issues, including benefits, health care and the new Post 9/11 GI Bill.Later this morning, Specter's opponent in the May 2010 primary will also talk health care with veterans. US Rep. Joe Sestak, D-Pa., will host a veterans' forum at the Philadelphia Veterans' Multi-Service and Education Center. Bound to come up before Specter and Shinseki: the unfolding scandal involving a Philadelphia prostate-cancer program. Ninety-two patients were notified that their radiation doses were too high or too low. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs shut down the brachytherapy program in Philadelphia, as well as at three other VA hospitals with less serious problems. The Democratic senator held a hearing on the matter here in June. Today's 8:45 event should less contentious than the senator's recent town hall meetings, where some members of the public have angrily denounced federal health-care proposals. Yesterday on ABC's This Week, Specter said that the anger witnessed at town hall meetings about federal health-care idea don't reflect the view of most Americans. Utah GOP Sen. Orrin Hatch countered on the program that the Democratic National Committee and organized labor were sending their own supporters to town halls to challenge Republicans. The forums are part of a White House-led effort to draw attention to health care reform. Later today, President Barack Obama will address veterans in Phoenix, Ariz.
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