[poochee]

Originally Posted by eggplant43

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0...=Daily%20Brief

[eggplant43]

The en bloc amendment from Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas) would increase funding for suicide prevention outreach to veterans, reduce wait times for mental health services, and increase funding for research into prosthetics. The amendment was quickly approved in a voice vote.

http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-actio...epted-by-house

[poochee]

Originally Posted by eggplant43

http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-actio...epted-by-house

[eggplant43]

A new study finds that the cancer care provided by the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) for men 65 years and older is at least as good as, and by some measures better than, Medicare-funded fee-for-service care obtained through the private sector. The study, reported in the June 7 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine, was led by Nancy Keating, an associate professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School.

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-0...r-private.html

[eggplant43]

An existing Transportation Security Administration (TSA) program for injured service members has recently been expanded to permit all veterans to proceed through security safely and with dignity.

http://www.last.fm/listen/user/eggplant43/mix

[eggplant43]

VA PTSD site:

http://www.ptsd.va.gov/public/index.asp

[poochee]

Originally Posted by eggplant43

VA PTSD site:

http://www.ptsd.va.gov/public/index.asp

Good site.

[ekim68]

If you've got a Facebook account you can help a Vet....

Help New Veterans Obtain a Service Dog

Starting clicking for a good cause! Now through July 4th, for every 5,000 likes the Dog Bless You Facebook page gets, our friends at Explore.org will donate a companion service dog to a service member or new veteran of Iraq or Afghanistan.

(Over 211,000 hits right now... )

[poochee]

Originally Posted by ekim68

If you've got a Facebook account you can help a Vet....

Help New Veterans Obtain a Service Dog

(Over 211,000 hits right now... )

[Nekochanpurr]

Originally Posted by ekim68

If you've got a Facebook account you can help a Vet....

Help New Veterans Obtain a Service Dog



(Over 211,000 hits right now... )

I've liked it.

[eggplant43]

Thanks for the post, Ekim.

[eggplant43]

(Washington, DC) – Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) this week introduced the bipartisan Chiropractic Care Available to All Veterans Act of 2011, a bill to improve health care for veterans by expanding access to chiropractic care at Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities nationwide. Blumenthal was joined by original cosponsors Senators Jerry Moran (R-KS), Tom Harkin (D-IA), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), and Chuck Grassley (R-IA).

http://politicalnews.me/?id=7813

[poochee]

Originally Posted by eggplant43

http://politicalnews.me/?id=7813

[ekim68]

Homeless vets work on historic structures and their own lives

When Trent Miller started to work on the 120-year-old barn, it was a termite's paradise.

Much of the Queen Anne structure was rotted, the roof shingles were worn down and the paint was so faded, it was impossible to figure out its former colors.

But Miller is learning as he hammers away that even something terribly beaten down can be rebuilt.

He and the four other men on his crew were recruited to work at Heritage Square Museum in a new program whose goal is to get homeless veterans' lives back on track.

The hope is that they will work not only on the buildings but on themselves as well.

Like the barn, the men have seen better days — before the alcoholism, the drug addictions, the post-war insomnia.

[eggplant43]

Tammy Duckworth, an Iraq war veteran and double amputee whose war injuries gave her a special understanding of veterans issues, is stepping down as an assistant secretary at the Department of Veterans Affairs and plans to return to her home state of Illinois, administration officials confirmed Monday.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...tZTH_blog.html