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Archive for November 2011

November 2011

In this Issue: U.S. Medicine News Update VA Care for Mental Health Patients is Costly, Inconsistent Class Action Lawsuit Filed Over Tricare Data Breach Vaccine Reduces Risk of Malaria by Half...

November 2011

NOVEMBER ISSUE Forward this newsletter to a colleague U.S. MEDICINE NEWS UPDATE Key Protein in TBI Patients Can Determine Who Needs CT ScansWASHINGTON-A blood test for TBI may have potential for reducing CT scans i...

Drug Shortages Tripled in Last Five Years; Critical Medications Unavailable

Should pharmaceutical manufacturers be required to inform FDA six months in advance if they are discontinuing any drug? Read the full article and let us know what you think: What is your opinion? Do you think that physicians working for the federa...

RelayHealth wins Blue Button Contest

WASHINGTON – And the winner is…..

VA announced that RelayHealth, McKesson’s connectivity business is the winner of the “Blue Button for All Americans” contest.

Anonymous Surveys Can Be Valuable in Military Mental-Health Screening, Study Finds

WASHINGTON — Despite intensive efforts by the military to reduce the stigma of seeking help, troops still might be reluctant to report mental-health problems, suggests a new study of U.S. Army soldiers from one infantry brigade combat team.

1918 Flu Virus Circulated Silently Before Becoming Killer

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that the flu virus that killed 50 million people worldwide in 1918 “circulated silently” at least four months before the 1918 influenza reached pandemic levels in the fall.

Researchers Building a Better Weight-Loss Simulator Cont.

Success of VA MOVE! Program Depends on Support of Management For more than five years, VA has been encouraging veterans to lose weight and become more physically fit through its MOVE! Weight Management Program. A recently released evaluation of th...

Researchers Building a Better Weight-Loss Simulator

A model created by NIH researchers challenges some commonly held diet beliefs, including that eating 3,500 fewer calories, or burning them through exercise, always results in a pound of weight loss.

Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory

If I were unfortunate enough to sustain a severe trauma, I would prefer to be taken to a U.S. Military Combat Support Hospital (CSH) over nearly all other medical institutions in the world.

November Progress Notes

THE WASHINGTON  VA MEDICAL CENTER (DCVAMC) opened its newly constructed Southern Prince Georges County Community Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC) last month near Joint Base Andrews.

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