Focus on Veteransâ Chief as Inquiries on Care Begin
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Jim Nicholson, secretary of veterans affairs, is trying to put a positive public face on his beleaguered agency.
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The government will Tuesday launch an inquiry into social care provision for elderly and disabled people after enormous variations in the way local councils decide who gets help.
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Walter Reed Army Medical Center is investigating the former head of a program that aids injured soldiers.
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said yesterday that his concerns over insufficient oversight of private security firms in Iraq led him this week to dispatch a team to the country to investigate the issue, while also instructing commanders to tighten their controls over the armed guards.
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Lawmakers say they want to know whether a Veterans Affairs employee was being unfairly blamed for losing veterans&#039; personal information, citing newly disclosed documents showing he had received permission to work on the data from home.
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Leaders of a presidential commission on Wednesday implored Congress to quickly pass measures providing lifetime treatment to Iraq war veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Adm. Michael G. Mullen, the Bush administration's choice to become the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is deeply concerned that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are straining the U.S. military and he probably would seek political solutions to those conflicts, according to longtime...
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SIERRA VISTA - Their tales about access to medical care sound a lot like war stories. In a smoky Veterans of Foreign Wars bar in this military town, many Arizona veterans talk bitterly of waiting lists for
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Inquiries were being made about how the firefight has been coordinated and how resources have been deployed.
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Problems over treatment of wounded soldiers that created a scandal at the top U.S. military veterans' hospital are prevalent throughout the Army's health care system, lawmakers said on Monday.
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President Bush named former Sen. Bob Dole and former Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala on Tuesday to lead an investigation of problems at the nation's military and veterans' hospitals
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The poor conditions of the Army medical center will be the subject of hearings in Congress this week.
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As head of the Armyâs Institute of Surgical Research, Col. John Holcomb is working to change the way the military takes care of its wounded.
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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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When in doubt, tilt toward the veteran. That's what the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has suggested to government agencies in two cases involving federal employees who had served in the military reserves and petitioned for back pay because of improperly charged military leave.
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British-based relatives of an elderly Alzheimer&#39;s sufferer abandoned at a hospital have been in discussions about his future care with the council looking after him.
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A presidential panel said yesterday that it is compiling a first-of-its-kind national survey to determine scientifically the extent of health-care problems for veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.