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24 Oct 2007, 12:36 pm
A recent study, conducted by researchers at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Baylor College of Medicine, U T Med School at Houston, and Harvard School of Public Health, reviewed almost nine hundred medical malpractice claims to find that 27% of those cases involved errors by residents, interns, or fellows. [read post]
21 Sep 2007, 7:15 am
Three of the Department of Defense's eight national brain-injury centers are in Virginia, including one at McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Richmond. [read post]
5 Sep 2007, 9:47 am
Bentley's Filling Station, a cozy bar in College Park, where wounded Iraq and Afghanistan veterans being treated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center come to fuel up on Coronas, honky-tonk dance and the "Rocky"-style pummelings I've seen on half a dozen visits this summer.....Half a decade into the "war on terror," America's bars have become our barometers: instruments that measure the extent to which our veterans have been left to… [read post]
9 Aug 2007, 5:00 am
Senators Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Larry Craig (R-ID) introduced joint legislation to establish six Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Epilepsy Centers of Excellence across the country. [read post]
4 Aug 2007, 3:18 pm
A Marine veteran came home after serving in Iraq and committed suicide after his post-traumatic stress disorder went untreated by the Northampton VA Medical Center. [read post]
30 Jul 2007, 7:27 am
Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs, 2,414 returning service personnel have been treated for brain injuries in the past 3 1/2 years.Henson said roughly 450 of those patients have severe injuries.According to the epidemiological data, about 18% of all medically-attended brain injuries in the U.S. are severe. [read post]
30 Jul 2007, 3:32 am
Department of Veterans Affairs, seeks broad changes in the agency as it struggles to meet growing demands from veterans returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan. [read post]
29 Jul 2007, 5:00 am
  $17 million of this $50 million is designated specifically for the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center. [read post]
25 Jul 2007, 1:24 am
McDermott Will Recruits Sullivan & Cromwell Veteran New York Law Journal McDermott, Will & Emery has recruited to its New York office a former senior trusts and estates partner at Sullivan & Cromwell. [read post]
4 Jul 2007, 10:46 am
So, state veteran affairs officials have taken matters into their own hands. [read post]
22 Jun 2007, 10:27 am
John Santa, an internist at the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center and consultant to the Prescription Project, which is part of a coalition trying to curb drug companies' access to doctor prescribing information. [read post]
11 Jun 2007, 8:57 am
The Hampton Veterans Affairs Medical Center has recently settled a medical malpractice suit in which the mental health department failed to correcly diagnose a patient's physical ailments. [read post]
29 May 2007, 11:57 am
After admitting himself to the psychiatric unit at Hampton Veterans Affairs Medical Center, he soon complained of difficulty breathing. [read post]
15 May 2007, 8:39 am
The Navy Times has an odd and disturbing report, Navy vet: Chaplains tried converting me: Navy veteran David Miller said that when he checked into the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Iowa City, he didn’t realize he would get a hard sell for Christian fundamentalism along with treatment for his kidney stones. [read post]
30 Apr 2007, 6:00 am
This option would not send the brain-injured troops back into combat, but it would make them eligible for the best available medical care, as reported in the Marine Corps Times, "from the Defense Department and from specialized private care centers, which would be better than care from the Department of Veterans Affairs. [read post]
8 Apr 2007, 11:39 am
One Congressman stated that there are medical errors all the time, but he is skeptical about the situation because it seems that the Veterans Affairs medical complex wants to cover up these errors. [read post]
18 Aug 2006, 11:47 am
But then they produce defense appropriations legislation that halves funding for the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center, a joint Pentagon-Veterans Affairs program headquartered at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, from $14 million to $7 million. [read post]
9 Aug 2006, 8:46 am
The work is done at seven military and Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals, including the center's headquarters at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, and one civilian treatment site. [read post]