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Not Every Veteran is Broken

A Cost Never Figured into the Budget

The wounds of Veterans, both physical and mental, are real and have widespread effects on Veterans and their families.

May 22nd, 2012 | Posted in Health,PTSD | Read More »

Agent Orange ‘tested in Okinawa’

Paper trail: Michelle Gatz holds the logbook of the SS Schuyler Otis Bland, which apparently transported defoliants to Okinawa in the early 1960s. MICHELLE GATZ

Recently uncovered documents show that the United States conducted top-secret tests of Agent Orange in Okinawa in 1962, according to a veterans services employee.

May 18th, 2012 | Posted in Agent Orange,Health | Read More »

Meditation: Can It Help Reduce Your Pain?

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Meditation, which can be practiced in many different forms, has been used for thousands of years to benefit the mind, body and soul.

May 8th, 2012 | Posted in Health,PTSD | Read More »

A New Component of US Military Combat Preparedness: Meditation

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Between 2004 and 2008, suicide rates among U.S. Army personnel increased by 80 percent, according to a study published in the medical journal Injury Prevention.

May 8th, 2012 | Posted in Coping,Health,PTSD | Read More »

PTSD: Bridging Gaps In Understanding And Improving Treatment

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This is a continuation of series PTSD: From Viet Nam to Iraq and Afghanistan from my latest issue of The Veteran Magazine (September-October 2011), from Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA).

May 5th, 2012 | Posted in Health,PTSD | Read More »

NFL Great Junior Seau and U.S. Veterans Go Suicide When Game is Over

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Like our U.S. Military Veterans, it is certainly possible that Seau suffered from a similar affliction that causes U.S. Soldiers and Veterans to terminate their lives.

May 2nd, 2012 | Posted in Coping,Health,PTSD | Read More »

Fukushima Primed For Worldwide Disaster

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The chances are very likely that you have already been affected by its leading edge of radiation contamination ~ either by the air you breathe or the food you eat.

May 1st, 2012 | Posted in Editors Picks,Environment,Health,Living | Read More »

Fibromyalgia in Gulf War Veterans

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Gulf War Veterans who develop fibromyalgia do not have to prove a connection between their illnesses and military service to be eligible to receive VA disability compensation.

May 1st, 2012 | Posted in Gulf War Illness (GWI),Health | Read More »

Rising Vets Suicides – Heart Centered Approach needed

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A new SFVA study strongly suggests that soldiers who experience killing experiences are twice as likely to attempt suicide ~ which strongly supports the reality of soul damage as a contributing factor for veteran’s suicide as well as the obvious need for a proven heart centered approach toward veteran rehabilitation.

April 25th, 2012 | Posted in Coping,Editors Picks,Health,PTSD | Read More »

A Soldiers Home Tour

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Rules of Disengagement. Guess what there aren’t any. So let’s get on it.

April 19th, 2012 | Posted in Health,PTSD | Read More »

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month

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Every 2 minutes, someone in the U.S. is sexually assaulted.

April 16th, 2012 | Posted in PTSD,Vet News,Veterans Affairs | Read More »

Band Of Brothers #9 – Into The Light

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As Easter arrives in 2012, an ongoing real life resurrection story continues to unfold in Yountville, California with the extremely successful heart centered Healing The Wounded Heart workshops for veterans with PTSD.

April 7th, 2012 | Posted in Coping,Editors Picks,Health,PTSD | Read More »

Horse Therapy Helps Veterans Break Through PTSD

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A Pentagon Channel documentary sheds light on how military veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder are finding help through the power of horse therapy.

April 6th, 2012 | Posted in Health,PTSD | Read More »

Challenging Obamacare

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Last November, the Supreme Court agreed to hear challenge arguments against Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) – aka Obamacare.

March 26th, 2012 | Posted in Health | Read More »

Urgent Call To All Citizens To Help Gulf War Veterans Get Research Funds for FY2013

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Gulf War Veterans and their families are becoming the forgotten veterans and they need phone calls to all US Representatives offices in DC by the deadline of next week March 15.

March 9th, 2012 | Posted in Gulf War Illness (GWI) | Read More »

PTSD and Pain Management: VA’s Latest Research

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As a leader in health research, VA prides itself on delivering care to Veterans that is supported by scientific evidence and input from experts.

March 9th, 2012 | Posted in Health,PTSD | Read More »

Roe-Kucinich lead Charge For Gulf War Illness Research-Help the Gulf War Veterans

Health Care Overhaul

Gulf War Veterans and all Americans should call their US Representatives in their DC office and ask to speak to the staffer assigned to Veterans/Military Issues and ask them to get their representative and all Representatives to sign on this Dear Colleague Letter Now.

March 8th, 2012 | Posted in Gulf War Illness (GWI) | Read More »

With LOVE To Vets with PTSD

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“I have seen way too many OD’s from alcohol, but I have never seen an OD from cannabis. My opinion is that cannabis is a hell of a lot better than alcohol, Valium, or any synthetics because it is natural.”-John Fleming, MD.

February 14th, 2012 | Posted in Health,PTSD | Read More »

Heart Is The Master – Mind The Servant

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The Japanese symbol of love is a replica of the heart’s dominance ~ for the mind is always looking for answers that the heart already knows.

February 13th, 2012 | Posted in Coping,Editors Picks,Health,PTSD | Read More »

Army Looks to Ensure Consistent PTSD Diagnosis

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The Army is investigating how post-traumatic stress disorder is diagnosed to ensure consistency at all hospitals, the service’s surgeon general told Congress yesterday.

February 9th, 2012 | Posted in Health,PTSD | Read More »

Conflicts of interest in Rel. to Vietnam Vets Exposure to Agent Orange

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Adm. Zumwalt was keenly aware that his efforts were being under minded during the years he was tasked to look into the Agent Orange issue when he was given a job at the VA. His report was classified and later leaked and can be found on the internet.

February 3rd, 2012 | Posted in Agent Orange,Health | Read More »

Military Veterans And Cancer

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“Men and Women in the military know that they risk their lives when they go into combat. What they have not anticipated is that they might be exposed to chemicals or toxins that could cause cancer many years later”

February 1st, 2012 | Posted in Agent Orange,Health | Read More »

Madigan Hospital Psychiatric Team Altered Soldiers’ PTSD Diagnoses

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The Army is reviewing the actions of a Madigan Army Medical Center psychiatric team that reversed the diagnoses of more than a dozen soldiers previously found to have post-traumatic stress disorder.

January 31st, 2012 | Posted in Health,PTSD | Read More »

Women’s Heart Health

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The first step toward heart health is becoming aware of your own personal risk for heart disease. Some risks, such as smoking cigarettes, are obvious: every woman knows whether or not she smokes.

January 31st, 2012 | Posted in Health | Read More »

The VA in 3D: Examiner Examined (Part 6)

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Captain May, I am writing for The Washington Examiner, and have come across your posts on the Veterans Today website. I can hardly believe the treatment you have endured, and wish to expose the abuse veterans receive from Veterans Administration hospitals. — Sincerely, Samantha Gilman, Opinion Page

January 26th, 2012 | Posted in Editors Picks,Health | Read More »

Agent Orange: Alphabetized Ships List

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VA has added 47 vessels to its list of Navy and Coast Guard ships whose crews may have been exposed to the defoliant Agent Orange.

January 24th, 2012 | Posted in Agent Orange,Health | Read More »

PTSD Caregiver Support Group

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VA Butler Healthcare is now offering a monthly PTSD Caregiver Support Group to all caregivers whose Veterans have post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

January 23rd, 2012 | Posted in Coping,Health,PTSD | Read More »

US Congressman Filner: Agent Orange Victims Must Be Assisted More

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Victims in connection with America’s spraying of Agent Orange during the American War in Vietnam must be assisted more, especially from the US side, US Congressman Bob Filner said in Hanoi Monday.

January 10th, 2012 | Posted in Agent Orange,Health | Read More »

Ruling Leaves Dioxin Cleanup Out of Monsanto Trial

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As the trial begins in a major toxic pollution lawsuit against Monsanto Co., jurors won’t be allowed to tackle a key issue: Should the company pay to clean up dioxin it allegedly spewed across the city of Nitro?

January 8th, 2012 | Posted in Health | Read More »

VA Treating Veterans Mental Health

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VA Salt Lake City Health Care Systems offers a PTSD Assesment intake clinic every Tuesday at 11:00 am in the Bear Lake room of Builging 16. It is a walk-in only Assesment.

January 7th, 2012 | Posted in Health,PTSD | Read More »

 

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  2. DaveE: I think it’s encouraging the these vets and Marines have realized the true meaning of the words Semper...
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