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Archive for 2012

July 2012

In this Issue: U.S. Medicine News Update Amputee Advocates: VA Prosthetics Treatment Not as State-of-Art as DoD DoD, VA Collaboration Could Create EHR interoperability for All Healthcare VA Seeks to Gather More Information on Women Veteran...

October 2012 - Vol.1

OCTOBER ISSUE U.S. MEDICINE NEWS UPDATE Use of High-Cost Diabetes Drugs Varies Widely Across VA PITTSBURGH - Despite a tightly managed national formulary, the use of high-cost drugs to treat diabetes shows “substantial” variation across the...

VA's MOVE! Initiative Plagued by Lack of Participation

Please read this article and participate in this month's online opinion poll about whether VA provided enough resources to make the MOVE! weight-loss initiative successful? What is your opinion? Yes No Undecided Current Results

TRICARE Limits Autism Coverage, Classifies Popular Therapy as ‘Educational’

OPM Director of Healthcare and Insurance John O’ Brien said at the hearing that OPM’s decision to reclassify ABA as a medical therapy was based on the “evolving body of clinical research and the maturing provider infrastructure to deliver this ...

Army, NFL Team Up in Offensive Against Traumatic Brain Injury

Risk to Veterans Meanwhile, while recent research already has highlighted the risk of CTE for athletes, new research has been emerging about the risk it poses to troops. The U.S. Army and the NFL will work together to improve awareness about traum...

Army, NFL Team Up in Offensive Against Traumatic Brain Injury

WASHINGTON — Only days before the opening game of the NFL season, the NFL and Army announced they were teaming up to raise awareness about TBI, an injury that plagues both organizations.

Front-Line Clinicians Get Practical Advice To Help Combat Military Suicides

In a recent article in the Annals of Internal Medicine, Robert J. Ursano, MD; David M. Benedek, MD; and Charles C. Engel, MD, MPH, from USU’s Department of Psychiatry, define “trauma-informed care” as “recognizing and planning for detecting and tr...

Front-Line Clinicians Get Practical Advice To Help Combat Military Suicides

ROCHESTER, MN — With sweeping new initiatives from the White House and elsewhere in response to the burgeoning military suicide rate, little guidance has been offered to the clinicians in the trenches who are best positioned to recognize and prevent such drastic actions.

Robotic Exoskeletons Allow Paralyzed Veterans to Exercise, Reduce Sedentary Effects

Patients have demonstrated other improvements, as well. All of the patients showed increases in mobility and strength, and all five of the first five participants were self-reporting improvements in bowel function by the end of 20 sessions. The...

Robotic Exoskeletons Allow Paralyzed Veterans to Exercise, Reduce Sedentary Effects

New York  — For veterans suffering from paralysis due to a spinal-cord injury (SCI), the inability to move a significant portion of their body is the obvious, immediate concern. Over the long-term, however, the extreme sedentary lifestyle caused by paralysis can lead to many secondary medical problems that can severely impact not only the quality of but also the length of their lives.

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