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		<title>VA tests system for electronic disability claims</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mar 25, 2010 10:27 AM By KIMBERLY HEFLING, AP BALTIMORE  - If the interminable backlog of veterans&#8217; disability claims has any chance of being eliminated, the system must go paperless.  But how to move to a fully electronic system is the quandary, and one Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki wants resolved by 2012, when a modern [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=usmilitaryveteranscenterinsecondlife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5818829&amp;post=1541&amp;subd=usmilitaryveteranscenterinsecondlife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Senators want data on prescription drug use</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:05:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Andrew Tilghman &#8211; Staff writer Posted : Thursday Mar 25, 2010 20:06:59 EDT Several senators expressed concern Wednesday about increasing psychiatric drug usage among service members and called on top military health officials to provide detailed data about how many troops are on anti-depressants and other mind-altering drugs. At a hearing on Capitol Hill, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=usmilitaryveteranscenterinsecondlife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5818829&amp;post=1538&amp;subd=usmilitaryveteranscenterinsecondlife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kerry Fights for Blinded Vets</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  March 16, 2010 CONTACT:  DC Press Office, (202) 224-4159 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) today introduced legislation that will allow blinded veterans in Massachusetts to keep their entire pension from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA.)  Massachusetts offers a $2000 annual payment to permanently blind veterans, but the VA currently subtracts that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=usmilitaryveteranscenterinsecondlife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5818829&amp;post=1536&amp;subd=usmilitaryveteranscenterinsecondlife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Protocol to Provide Early Brain Injury Detection</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Christen N. McCluney Special to American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, March 16, 2010 – The Defense Department is rolling out a new set of guidelines for the treatment of mild traumatic brain injury among servicemembers in combat areas.   “We’re morphing from a symptom-based approach in theater to an incident-based approach,” a senior official said [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=usmilitaryveteranscenterinsecondlife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5818829&amp;post=1533&amp;subd=usmilitaryveteranscenterinsecondlife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>VA doctors see more veterans with noncombat neck, back or joint problems</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 02:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By LINDSAY WISE HOUSTON CHRONICLE March 4, 2010, 6:16AM Anthony Clark used to think nothing of running two miles in 14 minutes. Now the 44-year-old Iraq war veteran can&#8217;t walk without pain. “It&#8217;s a total life change,” said Clark, who developed severe back and shoulder problems while serving as an Army sergeant in Iraq in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=usmilitaryveteranscenterinsecondlife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5818829&amp;post=1531&amp;subd=usmilitaryveteranscenterinsecondlife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shinseki: US will fix broken VA disability system</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By KIMBERLY HEFLINGThe Associated Press Monday, February 22, 2010; 10:43 AM CHILLICOTHE, Ohio &#8212; Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki said he&#8217;s making it a top priority this year to tackle the backlog of disability claims that has veterans waiting months &#8211; even years &#8211; to get financial compensation for their injuries.  Among those waiting for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=usmilitaryveteranscenterinsecondlife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5818829&amp;post=1529&amp;subd=usmilitaryveteranscenterinsecondlife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Health Care Plan&#8217;s Price Tag Jumps to $950 Billion</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted: 02/22/10 President Obama unveiled his plan for health care reform Monday morning, four days before the summit at which Republicans and Democrats are scheduled to sit down with the president to forge a bipartisan compromise on the matter.   The White House communications director, Dan Pfeiffer, said Monday that Obama&#8217;s proposal is intended to &#8220;bridge [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=usmilitaryveteranscenterinsecondlife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5818829&amp;post=1526&amp;subd=usmilitaryveteranscenterinsecondlife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lejeune water report had no mention of benzene</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Kevin Maurer &#8211; The Associated Press Posted : Wednesday Feb 17, 2010 17:22:16 EST WILMINGTON, N.C. — An environmental contractor dramatically underreported the level of a cancer-causing chemical found in tap water at Camp Lejeune, then omitted it altogether as the Marine base prepared for a federal health review, an Associated Press review has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=usmilitaryveteranscenterinsecondlife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5818829&amp;post=1523&amp;subd=usmilitaryveteranscenterinsecondlife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>VA wants to track docs’ reaction to e-alerts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mary Mosquera Tuesday, February 16, 2010 The Veterans Affairs Department wants to be able to track when and how its physicians respond to medical alerts sent to them via the agency’s computerized patient record system (CPRS).  CPRS, a part of the Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA), currently can only monitor whether providers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=usmilitaryveteranscenterinsecondlife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5818829&amp;post=1520&amp;subd=usmilitaryveteranscenterinsecondlife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>VA prodded to give more aid to female veterans</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kristine Wise remembers driving from San Diego to Victorville, Calif., to visit her brother and seeing haunting messages on the freeway&#8230; By Tony Perry Los Angeles Times OCEANSIDE, Calif. — Kristine Wise remembers driving from San Diego to Victorville, Calif., to visit her brother and seeing haunting messages on the freeway signs. Instead of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=usmilitaryveteranscenterinsecondlife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5818829&amp;post=1517&amp;subd=usmilitaryveteranscenterinsecondlife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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