Report: VA distorts record on wait times The Department of Veterans Affairs repeatedly understated wait times for injured veterans seeking medical care and, in many serious cases, forced them to wait more than 30 days, counter to department policy, an internal investigation shows.
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Cholera in Iraq Between 23 August and 6 September 2007, the cumulative number of cases of acute watery diarrhoea reported from five out of eleven districts of Sulaymaniyah Govenate stands at 3,182 including 9 deaths (case fatality rate, CFR: 0.3%). Of these reported cases, Vibrio cholerae has been laboratory confirmed in 283 stool specimens.
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Amputations, torture, brutal cruelty: the bloody reality behind the statistics Next week’s long-awaited congressional debate on President Bush’s war strategy will be driven by abstract figures. But to glimpse the human agony behind those figures, it helps to spend two days with the 28th CSH – the China Dragons – a model of American medical excellence and generosity of spirit.
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New blood-clotting dressing hits market The FDA has approved yet another blood-clotting dressing, giving service members another option to treat high-pressure bleeding, one of the top three threats to troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. WoundStat, produced by TraumaCure, joined the ranks of Celox, QuikClot and HemCon — the last of which is issued to troops in Iraq — as tools troops could use to treat wounds a tourniquet can’t reach.
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New health agency a possibility A Department of Defense plan to put the Army in charge of all military medical training and research could be pulled soon in favor of establishing a new Defense Health Agency to handle those responsibilities, senior officials have told the DOD Task Force on the Future of Military Health Care. In addition, the proposed Defense Health Agency would manage Tricare and take on responsibility for some "shared" medical activities across the services
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