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Opinion: Unseen battles: The harsh realities of veterans’ access to health care
29 Apr 2024 10:17 GMT
… factors such as service-connected disabilities, income levels, and … veterans’ access to quality health care.
Automatic enrollment. Veterans … the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the … Navy, she deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation …
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ACAPS Thematic Report: Afghanistan - Spotlight on social impact (October 2023 to February 2024)
28 Apr 2024 04:57 GMT
… to Afghan forced returnees following Pakistan’s launch of the Illegal Foreigners … (i.e. elderly, people with disabilities, female-headed households, children, economically … person, and one returnee with disabilities.
Limitations
As the humanitarian response …
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Married at 10, abused and forced to flee without her children: an Afghan woman on life under the Taliban
26 Apr 2024 04:10 GMT
… child was born premature and disabled. She soon passed away. … women like me endure in Afghanistan. I relived my childhood … old and still living in Afghanistan. Photograph: HandoutAfter the Taliban … everything: my childhood, youth, health and my children. Yet I …
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I am Navy Medicine – HM1 (FMF) Oscar J. Torres Ruiz – stationed at NMRTC Bremerton
25 Apr 2024 13:46 GMT
… duty case management and integrated disability evaluation system referrals.
Prior to … , Naval Health Clinic Charleston, South Carolina and the 2nd Medical Battalion, … Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait and Afghanistan.
“My deployment confirmed that you …
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Denver Health ordered to pay $660,000 for violating constitutional rights
24 Apr 2024 22:04 GMT
… face a driving while ability impaired charge, which is typically … an appeal.
"Denver Health respects the jury’s verdict … violations and coercion to sign medical consents or other documents. … seven years and deployed to Afghanistan as a forward observer. …
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Afghan Asylum Seekers Are Being Denied Their Religious Rights in ICE Prisons
24 Apr 2024 19:04 GMT
… the only application pathways most Afghans can access, humanitarian parole applications … federally funded resettlement agencies serve Afghans who qualify for resettlement assistance … young woman with a disability and a serious medical condition, was detained …
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Toxic Exposure Screenings: Vets Report Spotty Follow-Up on Questionnaire Meant to Boost Health Care and Benefits
24 Apr 2024 15:13 GMT
… Department of Veterans Affairs health centers, screenings that were … whose deployments included Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait and Jordan. … of the development of a disease.
The pamphlets handed to … works with veterans advocates on disability claims.
"I …
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Bus driver left 'jobless, single and in constant pain' after horror crash that left leg 'hanging off'
29 Apr 2024 12:11 GMT
… had been blown up in Afghanistan, it was crazy.” He was … so much on his leg, medics had not worked on his … is now determined to prove medics wrong
(Image: Nicholas Barrat… youth but is now permanently disabled. He has recently moved to …
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Does 'Brain Training' Really Improve Cognition?
29 Apr 2024 08:03 GMT
… a commentary on Medscape Medical News, neuroscientist Michael … Alzheimer's disease. Important components of … changes associated with cognitive impairment and dementia.
Neuroplasticity … health books as well as Behind the Burqa: Our Lives in Afghanistan …
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4th anti-polio drive begins today
29 Apr 2024 07:31 GMT
… active across the border in Afghanistan or other endemic and high … polio is a highly infectious disease caused by poliovirus mainly affecting … nervous system and can cause paralysis or even death. While there … endemic countries of Pakistan and Afghanistan.