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3 Nov 2009, 7:20 pm
Serious safety issues continue to plague an Illinois Veterans Affairs hospital. [read post]
31 Oct 2009, 6:12 am by Michael Kaplen
The bill has been approved by the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee and is awaiting floor action. [read post]
24 Oct 2009, 10:58 am by Phil Cameron
But one of Ryan's co-authors, Jack Loeppsky of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Albuquerque, had studied with one of the testing physicians and kept the data on aerobic capacity. [read post]
15 Oct 2009, 1:50 pm by Tom Lamb
Actively surveying and identifying an increased risk of common medical product-related adverse events that health care providers may not suspect are related to medical products As for the make up of the Drug Safety Oversight Board, at the present time it consists of representative from three FDA Centers (Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, and Center for Devices and Radiological Health) and six… [read post]
8 Oct 2009, 1:00 pm
Earlier in the year, hospitals run by the Dept. of Veterans Affairs in Miami, Florida and other cities came under fire when it was discovered that patients received colonoscopies performed with non-sterile equipment. [read post]
2 Oct 2009, 1:36 am
Beresford, MD, is a professor of Psychiatry at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center and School of Medicine at the University of Colorado Denver.Additional web pages: InSync Communication, Drug Expert Witness. [read post]
30 Sep 2009, 6:41 am
He then made a photocopy of the medical records to hide the alteration, and submitted them to the Department of Veterans Affairs. [read post]
18 Sep 2009, 8:50 am
The model is a critical component of future improvements to our health care system; Paul Grundy and the patient-centered medical home both deserve our close attention. [read post]
3 Sep 2009, 6:08 am
  He was hospitalized at both Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Minneapolis, and underwent numerous surgeries. [read post]
28 Aug 2009, 2:56 pm by Christopher T. Hurley
The AP reports, “six more cases have been found of cancer patients being given incorrect radiation doses at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Philadelphia” (FindLaw News citing to the Philadelphia Inquirer, 8/18). [read post]
24 Aug 2009, 9:00 am
As reported today in the Washington Post, the Department of Veterans Affairs is facing the possibility of a series of negligence lawsuits over contaminated medical equipment used in colonoscopy and endoscopy procedures. [read post]
15 Jul 2009, 6:33 pm
Physician Shortage, a commentary on the New England Journal of Medicine's examination of this problem:"Given that Medicare beneficiaries and persons with private insurance are reported to have, in general, ready access to care," it is the uninsured "who have a difficult time finding a physician," as well as Medicaid beneficiaries and the 20% of U.S. residents who live in federally designated "medically underserved" areas, Iglehart writes, adding that… [read post]
9 Jul 2009, 7:34 am
Those actors included a medical physicist with little experience in developing implant treatment plans, a radiation-safety committee that allowed crucial radiation-dosage calculations to go undone, and Nuclear Regulatory Commission inspectors who let Kao revise two patients' treatment plans to avoid reporting medical errors, according to the Veterans Affairs investigation report. [read post]
22 Jun 2009, 12:43 pm
Medical Center gave incorrect radiation doses to 92 veterans treating for prostate cancer during a six year period at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Philadelphia. [read post]
22 Jun 2009, 8:10 am
The NYTIMES reported over the weekend, that a Veteran's Affair Medical Center, located in Philadelphia, PA, had a "rogue cancer unit … that operated with virtually no outside scrutiny and botched 92 of 116 cancer treatments over a span of more than six years â€â [read post]
16 Jun 2009, 11:31 am
MORE GOVERNMENT HEALTH CARE: VA officials grilled over botched colonoscopies: “Lawmakers sharply criticized the Department of Veterans Affairs on Tuesday about why a national scare over botched colonoscopies earlier this year didn’t prompt stronger safeguards at the agency’s medical centers. [read post]
27 May 2009, 10:49 am
The San Diego resident Andrews was taken to the same medical center. [read post]