SUD Treatment Linked to Lower VHA COVID-19 Mortality
The risk for hospitalization from COVID-19 is elevated for patients with substance use disorders (SUD), but the link between SUDs and mortality from SARS-CoV-2 isn’t as clear.
The risk for hospitalization from COVID-19 is elevated for patients with substance use disorders (SUD), but the link between SUDs and mortality from SARS-CoV-2 isn’t as clear.
Few figures in our collective American history have borne the scale and scope of war like our 34th president, Dwight Eisenhower. Yet, despite being one of the most successful military commanders in history as the supreme allied commander in Europe during WWII, Eisenhower does not speak of glory or fame, rather disdain for war: “War settles nothing.”
Shortly after Christmas, while the hospital was bracing for the tidal wave that would be omicron, the DCVAMC made history, becoming the first VA in the nation to use new cardiac mapping technology to perform a cardiac ablation procedure.
Patients who survive cancer often face second malignant neoplasms (SMN), which are among their most serious long-term adverse health conditions.
African-American men are disproportionately affected by prostate cancer, but it remains unclear whether racial and ethnic disparities occur in equal-access settings at the national level.