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How Long Before Early Adoption of Insulin Becomes Rule Instead of Exception...
New research suggests that early adoption of insulin can improve long-term outcomes in type 2 diabetes patients. Most practice guidelines, including the VA/DoD guideline, which was updated last summer,...
View ArticleNumbers May Be Small, But Difficulty Managing Crohn's Disease is Big Concern
Crohn's disease is difficult to diagnose and complex to treat. For clinicians, the goal is to help their patients, who often are young, to achieve remission and enjoy a better quality of life....
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Where There's Smoke: DoD Investigates Causes of Deployment-Related Pulmonary...
Dramatic media coverage has helped raise concerns about pulmonary disease in troops deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Although servicemembers have reported increased symptoms, long-term damage from...
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Despite Success in Managing Warfarin Usage, VA's Anticoagulation Units' Role...
The VA's pharmacist-led anticoagulation units use diligent monitoring and constant overview of patient compliance to keep Warfarin patients’ International Normalized Ratio at a safe level. Despite that...
View ArticleSurvey: Women Veterans Dissatisfied with VA Care, Especially Sexual Trauma...
WASHINGTON—Women veterans are dissatisfied with many of the services provided through the VA health-care system, including screening processes for military sexual trauma (MST) that new enrollees...
View ArticlePresident Proposes Slightly Larger Budget for NIH; Focus on New Research
WASHINGTON—The President’s proposed budget for FY 2012 includes no deep cuts in HHS agencies, and even includes a small increase for NIH research. But that increase is tiny in comparison to the boost...
View ArticleCongressional Funding to DoD for Cancer Research Approved Despite Resistance...
WASHINGTON—Cancer organizations were pleased that funding was not reduced for the peer-reviewed prostate, breast and ovarian cancer programs in DoD’s Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program...
View ArticleNIH Releases Strategic Plan for Obesity Research
WASHINGTON—Recent months have seen a reinvigorated commitment to research targeted at curbing the obesity epidemic in the United States, including a number of completed studies from VA and DoD and the...
View ArticleKnowledge of Risk Factors Not Necessarily Valuable in Predicting...
BETHESDA, MD—Five years ago, NIH started promoting a paradigm of medicine—one that was predictive, personalized, preemptive and always with the participation of the patient. That paradigm began with...
View ArticleCurrent Research in Respiratory Care
Rates of Respiratory Diseases in HIV-Infected Veterans Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer, pulmonary hypertension and pulmonary fibrosis, as well as pulmonary infections, are more...
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