1. Veterans group considers better health-care access.
2. Legion commander calls local VA facilities 'top-notch'.
3. Conference attracts national voices.
4. Trauma in Childhood Could Contribute to Obesity in Adults.
5. Information Builders and immixGroup Awarded Contract With US Department of....
6. Veterans program grant writing workshop to held.
7. Bank apologizes for overcharging troops for mortgages.
8. Guam continues push for WWII reparation legislation.
9. Study: Proactive counseling stems troops’ mental ills.
10. Navy Radio Man Who Sent First Pearl Alters Dies:
11. Operation Desert Storm: 20 Years Later.
12. VA Homeless Prevention Program Praised.
13. VA Hospital Officials Reaching Out To Vets.
14. VA Connecticut To Help Establish Center Of Excellence
Education Program.
15. Defense Department To Administer Osteoporosis Research Grant
For VA.
16. VA Researcher Working On Blood Test For Alzheimer's Risk.
17. Honoring Jewish War Chaplains.
18. VA Hearings as of January 19, 2011:
19. Today in History:
1. Veterans group considers better health-care access.
2TheAdvocate
The US Department of Veterans Affairs plans to expand the Lafayette clinic, but the group has argued that the plans aren't extensive enough.
2. Legion commander calls local VA facilities 'top-notch'.
MyWebTimes.com
Mella, a retiree of the US Department of Veterans Affairs and a past post commander from Gladwin, Mich., started his morning Tuesday with a tour of the new
3. Conference attracts national voices.
Pueblo Chieftain
Pete Wilson's administration and then appointed a regional affairs liaison for the federal Department of Veterans Affairs during the Bush administration.
4. Trauma in Childhood Could Contribute to Obesity in Adults.
Newswise (press release)
Dr. Dedert has received a career development award from the US Department of Veterans Affairs to investigate the combination of Cognitive Processing Therapy
5. Information Builders and immixGroup Awarded Contract With US Department of ....
Marketwire (press release)
... premium maintenance support, professional and technical services, and education to the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Repositories Program.
6. Veterans program grant writing workshop to held.
KPUA
By AP HONOLULU (AP) undefined The US Department of Veterans Affairs is hosting a grant-writing workshop this week in Honolulu for nonprofit groups that assist
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WASHINGTON JPMorgan Chase & Co. is repaying more than $2 million to about 4,000 military families who were overcharged for their mortgages.
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The House bill was the first action of the new year by Guam Congresswoman Madeleine Bordallo, who was sworn in this month following her re-election in November. Bordallo has said the reparations are her top priority in Congress.
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9. Study: Proactive counseling stems troops’ mental ills.
A battlefield study conducted by the Army on 20,000 soldiers during the troop surge in Iraq shows that more aggressive efforts to question and counsel GIs about their mental health reduce by nearly 80% the number who develop behavioral health illnesses during combat. The results of the study, to be published today in the American Journal of Psychiatry, also show that 54% fewer soldiers contemplated suicide and that the number who needed to be sent home from Iraq with mental health problems dropped by nearly 70%.
10. Navy Radio Man Who Sent First Pearl Alters Dies: posted on January 18, 2011
BILLINGS, Mont. undefined Ed Chlapowski, the man who notified the world that Pearl Harbor was being bombed by the Japanese, has died at 88. [Read More...]
11. Operation Desert Storm: 20 Years Later. By Brandon Friedman January 16, 2011 at 2:16 pm. On the evening of January 16, 1991, I was with my parents and brother at the Pierre Bossier mall in Bossier City, Louisiana collecting autographs. Several members of the Houston Astros were there as part of a regional winter PR tour. Like Ralphie waiting in line for Santa Claus in A Christmas Story, this was a big deal to me. At 12 years old, baseball is what I was all about, and I’d spent days waiting for the event. There was an undercurrent of stress that night, however. It was like people were bracing for impact. I remember thatundefinedeven as a kid. …Read more »
12. Washington Times VA Homeless Prevention Program Praised. Near the end of its "Sgt. Shaft" column, the (1/19, Fales, 77K) praises the Department of Veterans Affairs for establishing Supportive Services for Veterans Families, a prevention program that "seeks to help veterans and families who are on the verge of becoming homeless."
13. VA Hospital Officials Reaching Out To Vets. According to the Hagerstown (MD) Herald-Mail (1/19, Dearth, 31K), officials from the Veterans Affairs hospital in Martinsburg, West Virginia, including Ann R. Brown, the hospital's director, "were in Hagerstown on Tuesday," at "VA's Outpatient Clinic on Opal Court," to "let those who served in the military know that they are entitled to receive quality health care.
14. VA Connecticut To Help Establish Center Of Excellence Education Program. The Hartford (CT) Business Journal (1/19) reports, "The Connecticut veterans' health system has qualified for $1 million annually to devise innovative training and tools for primary care physicians, nurses and other care providers."
15. Defense Department To Administer Osteoporosis Research Grant For VA. The Little Rock-based Arkansas Business (1/19, Carter) reports, "BiologicsMD has been awarded a $2.3 million research grant" from the US Defense Department. BiologicsMD, a "University of Arkansas startup, has developed a treatment for osteoporosis that binds to the bone and spurs new bone growth, reversing the effects of the disease.
16. VA Researcher Working On Blood Test For Alzheimer's Risk. The New York Times (1/19, A13, Kolata, 1.01M) says researchers working on two new studies, to be "published in The Journal of the American Medical Association on Wednesday,"
17. Honoring Jewish War Chaplains. The Queens (NY) Courier
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