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Presdent Obama Donated $250,000 of Nobel Prize Money to Fisher House

March 11, 2010, Washington, DC (New York Times) - President Obama made good on his promise to give his $1.4 million Nobel Prize money to charity, releasing the names on Thursday of the organizations that will benefit.

Dr. Haley at UTSW Presents Compelling Brain Images Showing Gulf War Illness

VCS Asks VA: Since UTSW Research Remains Vital to Understanding Gulf War Illness, Then Why Did a Handful of VA Staff in Washington Impede UTSW Contract and Then End Funding for UTSW?

March 9, 2010, Salt Lake City, Utah (Science News) - Nearly two decades after vets began returning from the Middle East complaining of Gulf War Syndrome, the federal government has yet to formally accept that their vague jumble of symptoms constitutes a legitimate illness. Here, at the Society of Toxicology annual meeting, yesterday, researchers rolled out a host of brain images – various types of magnetic-resonance scans and brain-wave measurements – that they say graphically and unambiguously depict Gulf War Syndrome.

March 9 VCS Weekly Update

This week’s VCS update keeps you in the loop with news on issues you care about.

One good change – our weekly news updates won’t ask you for money. Instead, our news updates point you to news articles at our web site. We hope you will read them and share the important facts with your friends. This week's update includes news about VA and suicides, VCS on CNN, our VCS FOIA campaign, VA automating Agent Orange claims, a waterboarding torture video, and Gulf War veterans' benefits.

Federal Court Keeps Torture Lawsuit Against Rumsfeld Alive

What's Waterboarding? Watch Video of Torture

March 5, 2010, Chicago, Illinois (Associated Press) - A federal judge refused Friday to dismiss a civil lawsuit accusing former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld of responsibility for the alleged torture by U.S. forces of two Americans who worked for an Iraqi contracting firm. [Rumsfeld served at the Pentagon under former President George W. Bush.]

Reducing Suicides: VA Adopts Policy on Emergency Care for Mental Health Patients

This Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Directive provides policy to ensure the provision of safe and secure mental health services during all hours of operation for Emergency Departments (EDs) and Urgent Care Clinics (UCCs) in VHA

VA's Gulf War Reports - GWVIS

Written by Administrator

Monday, 31 August 2009 15:17

Updated September 6, 2009 - The Gulf War Veterans Information System (GWVIS) reports are official Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) documents summarizing Veterans Health Administration (VHA) health care use and Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) disability benefit claim activity among Gulf War Veterans.

The reports are prepared each quarter and are shown in chronological order starting with the newest report. However, there appear to be gaps of missing GWVIS reports during the past ten years. The GWVIS reports are organized by month and year. For example, “gwvis_aug_08” is the date of the GWVIS report statistics. Please note the date of the GWVIS statistics is often several months before the publishing date printed on the cover of a GWVIS report. Congress ordered VA to publish reports about Gulf War veterans in 1992, yet VA waited until 2000 to produce standardized reports. The GWVIS reports contain details about the sources of data and definitions of terms used.