... Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 52 / Thursday, March 18, 2010 / Proposed Rules You may submit comments, identified by RIN 0648 AY66, by any one of the following methods: Electronic Submissions: Submit all electronic public comments via the Federal erulemaking Portal http:// www.regulations.gov Fax: 301 427 2211, Attn: Frank M. Sprtel, Attorney-Advisor Mail: Office of General Counsel for Enforcement and Litigation (GCEL), 8484 Georgia Avenue, Suite 400, Silver Spring, MD 20910 Instructions: No comments will be posted for public viewing until after the comment period has closed... http://www.vawatchdog.org/10/nf10/nfmar10/mar10files/gulf-oef-oif-presumptives.pdf
... IRAQ DESPITE ILLNESS -- A 19-year veteran who is stricken with active tuberculosis and unable to wear body armor because of back injuries, according to medical ...J." Aiyetoro, a 19-year veteran who is stricken with active tuberculosis and unable to wear body armor because of back injuries, according to medical ... to determine the extent of injuries and he needs additional tests to determine whether his tuberculosis is active, according to court records. Aiyetoro says commanders cared more about ... IRAQ DESPITE ILLNESS --A 19-year veteran who is stricken with active tuberculosis and unable to wear body armor because of back injuries,according to medical... http://www.vawatchdog.org/09/nf09/nfmar09/nf032509-5.htm
3. VA Watchdog dot Org - VA NEWS FLASH - 08-30-2007 #5 -- CAREGIVER AT MADISON VA HOSPITAL DIAGNOSED WITH TUBERCULOSIS -- Has prompted officials to test about 30 co-workers for the potentially fatal lung disease and try to contact up to 150 veterans who may have been exposed.nf083007-5.htm
...- CAREGIVER AT MADISON VA HOSPITAL DIAGNOSED WITH TUBERCULOSIS -- Has prompted officials to test about ... Page CAREGIVER AT MADISON VA HOSPITAL DIAGNOSED WITH TUBERCULOSIS -- Has prompted officials to test about ... exposed. X-Ray of lungs with tuberculosis. For more on tuberculosis, use the VA Watchdog search engine. .../ses search.php?q=tuberculosis&op=and Story here.. ... Hospital and the Veterans Hospital in Madison has tuberculosis, which has prompted officials to test about ...-CAREGIVER AT MADISON VA HOSPITAL DIAGNOSED WITH TUBERCULOSIS --Has prompted officials to test about... http://www.vawatchdog.org/07/nf07/nfAUG07/nf083007-5.htm
4. VA Watchdog dot Org - VA NEWS FLASH - 05-28-2007 #18 -- WHEN MOM WAS OVER THERE -- Somewhere during nine months in the Pacific my mother inhaled the tuberculosis bacilli. Her medical records suggest it was in Japan, but it could be she caught it treating liberated POWs in the Philippines.nf052807-18.htm
... during nine months in the Pacific my mother inhaled the tuberculosis bacilli. Her medical records suggest it was in ... during nine months in the Pacific my mother inhaled the tuberculosis bacilli. Her medical records suggest it was in ...: During her 10 months in the Pacific she caught tuberculosis. Nineteen years later, it killed her. ... cases of malaria, dengue, pneumonia, leprosy and tuberculosis. The 229th, a full-service Army ... those nine months in the Pacific my mother inhaled the tuberculosis bacilli. Her medical records suggest it was in ..., in 1947, a chest X-ray found tuberculosis in my mother's left lung. She... http://www.vawatchdog.org/07/nf07/nfMAY07/nf052807-18.htm
5. VA Watchdog dot Org - VA NEWS FLASH - 09-09-2007 #5 -- TESTS OF MADISON VA HOSPITAL WORKERS NEGATIVE FOR TUBERCULOSIS -- A worker who had contracted TB likely caught the illness from a patient who had not yet been diagnosed with it.nf090907-5.htm
... -- TESTS OF MADISON VA HOSPITAL WORKERS NEGATIVE FOR TUBERCULOSIS -- A worker who had contracted TB likely ... Friendly Page TESTS OF MADISON VA HOSPITAL WORKERS NEGATIVE FOR TUBERCULOSIS -- A worker who had contracted TB likely ...nfaug07/nf083007-5.htm For more on tuberculosis, use the VA Watchdog search engine.. ....org/ses search.php?q=tuberculosis&op=and Story here... ... Press . MADISON, Wis. -- Tests for tuberculosis turned out negative for hospital personnel who were checked ... --TESTS OF MADISON VA HOSPITAL WORKERS NEGATIVE FOR TUBERCULOSIS --A worker who had contracted TB likely... http://www.vawatchdog.org/07/nf07/nfSEP07/nf090907-5.htm
6. VA Watchdog dot Org - VA NEWS FLASH - 07-17-2007 #5 -- BUG-EYED -- VA and private hospitals are using automated surveillance systems to track infections and thwart a new generation of superbugs.nf071707-5.htm
... earlier this year, he set off a public health scare that caused Americans to focus their attention on superbugs, in this case a drug-resistant form of tuberculosis known as XDR-TB. Although the incidence of TB in any of its varieties is rarer here than in other countries, superbugs are not. Hospitals ... up the catcher s mitt to receive the PHINMS messages. A tool for tracking TB? Could electronic disease-surveillance systems have alerted federal health officials sooner about tuberculosis patient Andrew Speaker s condition so they could have grounded him before he set off on his European honeymoon? Probably not, say clinicians and informatics specialists,... http://www.vawatchdog.org/07/nf07/nfJUL07/nf071707-5.htm
7. VA Watchdog dot Org - VA NEWS FLASH - 04-09-2007 #3 -- PTSD IN THE CROSS HAIRS: MENDING A SHATTERED SOUL -- Doctors nationwide are testing experimental and conventional treatments to cure a growing number of afflicted veterans.nf040907-3.htm
....S. Department of Veterans Affairs' San Diego Medical Center. "There is no panacea. There's no one single treatment that will work for everyone." Experimental therapies In San Francisco, scientists have been enrolling Iraq and Afghanistan veterans in a study that combines psychotherapy with a drug usually used to treat tuberculosis. The drug might boost the effectiveness of psychotherapy. Scientists in Atlanta have been returning traumatized Iraq and Afghanistan veterans to the battlefield in virtual reality, hoping repeated yet safe and controlled exposure to a simulated traumatic event might ease lingering anxiety caused by the real event. In Philadelphia, scientists are teaching mindfulness meditation to... http://www.vawatchdog.org/07/nf07/nfAPR07/nf040907-3.htm
... pro-Union Republicans and Confederate-leaning Democrats, and included veterans of the war. The oldest Montana veterans of the Civil War died between 1938 and 1944. Hoar believes Vorus was Montana's oldest Civil War veteran. She came to Montana after her husband, John, a Union cavalry lieutenant, succumbed to tuberculosis, which he contracted during the Civil War, at a veteran's hospital in Milwaukee. Vorus moved to Sun River in 1876, taking a steamboat to Fort Benton with her daughter, Jesse, to live with her parents in the Sun River Valley, said Vorus' great-niece, Evelyn Phipps Chamberlin... http://www.vawatchdog.org/10/nf10/nfmay10/nf053110-2.htm
... families experience on a daily basis as they look for answers to health questions, and seek benefits from VA,' said Secretary Shinseki. The proposed rule includes information about the long-term health effects potentially associated with the nine diseases: Brucellosis, Campylobacter jejuni, Coxiella burnetii (Q fever), malaria, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Nontyphoid Salmonella, Shigella, Visceral leishmaniasis and West Nile virus. For non-presumptive conditions, a Veteran is required to provide medical evidence that can be used to establish an actual connection between military service in Southwest Asia or in Afghanistan, and a specific disease. With the proposed rule, a Veteran will... http://www.vawatchdog.org/10/vap10/vap031810-1.htm
... international space station a VA research project to study the impact of aging on the human immune system. The study is overseen by Dr. Millie Hughes-Fulford, a VA researcher in San Francisco and a former scientist-astronaut who flew on the space shuttle in 1991. 'From the development of effective therapies for tuberculosis and implantable cardiac pacemakers, to the first successful liver transplant and the nicotine patch, VA's trail-blazing research accomplishments are a source of great pride to our Department and the nation,' Gould added. In 1977, VA researcher Rosalind Yalow was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for developing techniques that... http://www.vawatchdog.org/10/nf10/nfapr10/nf042310-1.htm
