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← Older postsVA grants fund telehealth, training to improve care for women veterans
February 11, 2013Using telehealth to care for rural women. Improving training in women’s health. Remodeling emergency rooms to provide more privacy. The VA is funding innovation across the country to improve care for women veterans. Continue reading
Posted in News | Tagged Top news, Veteran Health, Veterans Affairs, Women Veterans | Leave a comment‘Changing the culture’ helps Fort Bliss lower suicide rate
February 5, 2013Soldier suicides at Fort Bliss in New Mexico are on the decline, bucking an Army-wide trend. Continue reading
Posted in News | Tagged Army suicide, Fort Bliss, Returning Veterans, Suicide, Suicide Rate, Veteran Health | Leave a commentColorado veteran: Yoga for Vets can ‘help find a sense of calm’
January 31, 2013Clay, a University of Colorado senior and Army veteran, joined a Yoga for Vets class to help him cope with stress. “The most enlightening thing I’ve discovered,” he said, “is that the only thing we can control in our lives is our breath.” Continue reading
Posted in News | Tagged Mental health, PTSD, Returning Veterans, Veteran Health | 1 CommentIraq veteran who lost all 4 limbs receives double-arm transplant
January 28, 2013Brendan Marrocco was the first soldier to survive losing all four limbs in the Iraq War, and doctors revealed Monday that he’s received a double-arm transplant.
Those new arms “already move a little,” he tweeted a month after the operation. Continue reading
Exposed to burn pits, Iraq veteran from Idaho pursues environmental career
December 28, 2012Burning military waste in Iraq and Afghanistan sparked Marine Corps veteran Jacob Odekirkis’ interest in a career in environmental contamination. Continue reading
Posted in News | Tagged Education, Environment, Iraq veteran, Returning Veterans, Veteran Health | Leave a commentYoung Marine pioneers latest technology in complex prosthetic arm
December 4, 2012Two years later after his arm was severed by an explosion in Afghanistan, a young Marine is pioneering the use of a new $110,000 robotic arm with an electronic motor and sensors able to read signals from his brain. Continue reading
Posted in News | Tagged Prosthetics, Returning Veterans, Veteran Health, Wounded veterans | Leave a comment‘Mission United’ targets help to Florida’s post-9/11 veterans
December 3, 2012Afghanistan veteran Dylan Howerton had a legal problem he couldn’t solve: he wanted to divorce his wife, who left him three years ago. Enter ‘Mission United,’ a new effort by the United Way of Broward County that targets help to veterans of the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Continue reading
Posted in News | Tagged Employment, Housing, Mental health, Returning Veterans, Veteran Health | 2 CommentsDemand grows for nurses trained to care for younger veterans
November 28, 2012Veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan are starting to fill the waiting rooms of hospital emergency departments and clinics, where nurses may not be trained to help with their specialized needs. Continue reading
Posted in News | Tagged Veteran Health, Wounded veterans | Leave a commentCan Ecstasy help veterans with PTSD?
November 27, 2012Hundreds of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans with PTSD have contacted a husband-and-wife team who are evaluating Ecstasy for trauma. The soldiers have no interest in traditional talking cures or prescription drugs that have given them little relief. Continue reading
Posted in News | Tagged Mental health, PTSD, Returning Veterans, Veteran Health | Leave a commentVeterans with brain injuries trying music therapy
November 27, 2012Veterans with brain injuries will have a chance to see whether learning or playing an instrument can improve their brain power. Continue reading
Posted in News | Tagged Arts, Returning Veterans, Veteran Health, Wounded veterans | Leave a comment ← Older posts