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28 Sep 2014, 3:46 pm by Jon Gelman
The National Institutes of Health and the Department of Veterans Affairs this week announced that they will launch a five-year, $21.7 million initiative to study the effectiveness of alternative therapies to opioids through a series of 13 research projects.Nearly half of all troops returning home from Afghanistan and Iraq are suffering from chronic pain, more than double the civilian population, according to the Journal of the… [read post]
28 Aug 2014, 3:27 pm by John L. Culhane, Jr.
The CFPB announced that it has entered into a “Joint Higher Education Memorandum of Understanding” with the Departments of Veterans Affairs (VA), Defense (DOD), and Education (ED) as part of a joint effort by the agencies “to prevent abusive and deceptive recruiting practices by schools serving servicemembers, veterans, spouses and other family members. [read post]
27 Aug 2014, 5:21 pm by Susan Schneider
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5 Aug 2014, 4:00 am by Jon Gelman
Today's post is shared from ssa.gov This article examines the interactions between the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) disability compensation program and the Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) program for veterans rated “totally disabled” by VA. [read post]
31 Jul 2014, 11:20 am by Cody Poplin
Senate at the White House today to discuss the series of ongoing foreign affairs and national security issues. [read post]
31 Jul 2014, 6:42 am by Susan Schneider
Department of Agriculture (USDA).The “Champions of Change” are 15 leaders from across the country who are doing extraordinary things to build the bench for the next generation of farming and ranching. [read post]
28 Jul 2014, 10:43 am by Tara Hofbauer
State Department deputy spokesperson Marie Harf announced Friday that China has designed and tested an anti-satellite missile system. [read post]
26 Jul 2014, 11:47 am
Department of Veterans Affairs allegedly threatened or retaliated against employees who were trying to blow the whistle on agency wrongdoing. [read post]
22 Jul 2014, 1:07 pm by Jon Gelman
Today's post is shared from kaiserhealh.net and illustrates the effort by Congress to provide more efficient medical delivery for veterans.On Capitol Hill, lawmakers resume work this week to resolve differences over legislation aimed at alleviating long wait times for medical care at the Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals and clinics after reports that s  me veterans may have died awaiting appointment sand that some VA staff falsified records to… [read post]
18 Jul 2014, 8:18 am by Dan Filler
Department of Veterans Affairs,  (2) Professor Lawrence A. [read post]
7 Jul 2014, 7:44 am by Robert Kraft
Here are the opening paragraphs of the article: The FBI will investigate criminal allegations, including the possible shredding of documents, at the Department of Veterans Affairs medical facility in Temple, U.S. [read post]
30 Jun 2014, 8:40 am by Jane Chong
President Obama is expected to nominate Bob McDonald, former chief of Procter & Gamble, as the next secretary of veterans affairs. [read post]
20 Jun 2014, 9:00 am by P. Andrew Torrez
  The Washington Post analyzed these results in the context of the ongoing controversy regarding the department of VeteransAffairs; the Acting Secretary of the VA, Sloan Gibson, has promised to protect any whistleblowers from reprisal. [read post]
19 Jun 2014, 5:38 am by Barbara S. Mishkin
  (The temporary category covers mortgages that satisfy certain QM criteria and are eligible for purchase, insurance, or guarantee by, Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac while they operate under federal conservatorship or receivership (or a limited-life regulatory entity that is a successor to Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac), the Federal Housing Agency (FHA), the Department of Veterans Affairs, or the Rural Housing Service.) [read post]
29 May 2014, 10:38 am by Joe Consumer
Griffin, the acting inspector general of the Department of Veterans Affairs, confirming that VA administrators “manipulated medical waiting lists at one and possibly more hospitals” and that “1,700 patients at the veterans medical center in Phoenix were not placed on the official waiting list for doctors’ appointments and may never have received care. [read post]
26 May 2014, 7:55 am by Kelly Phillips Erb
The Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) National Cemetery Administration maintains 131 national cemeteries in 39 states and Puerto Rico as well as 33 soldier’s lots and monument sites. [read post]
23 May 2014, 9:00 am by William A. Schreiner, Jr.
  The growing scandal surrounding the VeteransAffairs department has, of course, whistleblower implications – we’ll likely be writing about this more in the future, but here’s one note about an allegedly blown whistle at a Colorado VA facility. [read post]