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Archive for December 2011

December 2011

In this Issue: U.S. Medicine News Update Genitourinary Injuries Added To VA Traumatic Injury Benefits TRICARE Mail order Pharmacy Incentives Alarm Community Pharmacies Lax Oversight of ...

December 2011

DECEMBER ISSUE U.S. MEDICINE NEWS UPDATE First Woman Becomes Army Surgeon GeneralWASHINGTON - Maj. Gen. Patricia D. Horoho assumed command of the U.S. Army Medical Command on Dec 5th and was promoted to the rank of lieu...

December 2011

DECEMBER ISSUE   U.S. MEDICINE NEWS UPDATE First Woman Becomes Army Surgeon GeneralWASHINGTON - Maj. Gen. Patricia D. Horoho assumed command of the U.S. Army Medical Command on Dec 5th and was promoted to the rank ...

Inconclusive Report Does Little to Cool Down Burn-Pit Controversy

A recent Institute of Medicine (IoM) report done at the request of the VA concluded that it could not say whether troops’ exposures to emissions from open-air burn-pits cause ongoing health effects.  Read the full article and let us know what...

Increasing TRICARE Mail order Pharmacy Incentives Alarms Community Pharmacies

An Obama administration proposal that affects drug co-pays in TRICARE has raised
concerns from trade groups representing community pharmacies, which, in 2010, filled
40% of TRICARE prescriptions.

Progress Notes December 2

Dr. Stephen Cozza, associate director at the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress (CSTS) received the Frank Ochberg Award for Media and Trauma Study from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS) during the society’s annual meeting in Baltimore in November.

Progress Notes December

XIN JIN, PHD, RECEIVED THE PETER AND PATRICIA GRUBER INTERNATIONAL
RESEARCHA WARD from the Society of Neuroscience.

Inconclusive Report Does Little to Cool Down Burn-Pit Controversy Cont.

Members of Congress also are having their say on the burn-pit issue. The same week the IoM released its report, Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) and Sen. Tom Udall (D-NM) introduced bills that would require the VA to create a burn-pit registry modeled a...

Inconclusive Report Does Little to Cool Down Burn Pit Controversy

WASHINGTON — Whether exposure to war zone burn-pits causes long-term health issues has created heated debate among military officials, veterans, Congress members and currently deployed troops.

Oct. 1, 2013: Circle the Date for Massive Coding Changeover at VA, Elsewhere Cont.

The Electronic Changeover “For a system like VA or DoD, it’s overwhelming,” explained Kyle Dennis, PhD, deputy director of VA’s Audiology and Speech Pathology Service. “Just determining how many different software systems and databases and health ...
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