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Bob Woodruff Foundation establishes fund for injured Veteran IVF services

In a continued effort to further assist the estimated 1,500 to 2,000 service members who sustained genitourinary injuries that may affect fertility, the Bob Woodruff Foundation established a financial assistance fund to help cover the costs associated with needed reproductive treatments to help our service men and women start or grow their own families. Merck, Ferring Pharmaceuticals and EMD Serono made this possible through funding provided by independent grants.

While Congress recently approved fertility coverage

December 1, 2016 11:04 am
healthcare

World AIDS Day 2016: VHA focuses on Veterans and HIV Prevention

World AIDS Day is Dec. 1. The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) joins other Federal partners in efforts to increase HIV testing and treatment, as well as a call for prevention. This year’s theme is “Leadership. Commitment. Impact.”

VA is the largest provider of HIV care in the U.S., treating over 27,000 Veterans in 2015 and leading the nation in all components of the HIV Care Continuum.  This care continuum includes diagnosis, linkage to care, retention

December 1, 2016 6:22 am
WWII veterans

The History Behind the Remembering Pearl Harbor Virtual Reality Experience

As the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor approaches its 75th anniversary, the new experience from LIFE VR—Time Inc.’s virtual-reality brand—allows users to revisit that infamous day through the experience of Lt. Jim Downing, who is now the second-oldest known American veteran to have survived the day. So, when it came to telling the story truthfully, Downing himself was clearly the most important source for Remembering Pearl Harbor. The 103-year-old, who was interviewed at

December 1, 2016 6:00 am
healthcare

Blood Pressure Study: Vietnam Era Veterans

VA researchers found a link between service-related occupational exposure to herbicides and high blood pressure (hypertension) risk among U.S. Army Chemical Corps (ACC) Veterans, a group of Veterans assigned to do chemical operations during the Vietnam War. Researchers also found an association between military service in Vietnam and hypertension risk among these Veterans.

Researchers at VA’s Post Deployment Health Services Epidemiology Program, Office of Patient Care Services, conducted the Army Chemical Corps Vietnam-Era Veterans Health

November 29, 2016 7:22 am
WWII veterans

Newly identified bodies of Pearl Harbor victims returned to families for burial

Edwin Chester Hopkins’ casket was draped with an American flag that had hung above the state Capitol. Boy Scouts saluted as the motorcade weaved around the colonial town square to the cemetery, where a military bugler readied to play taps in the dappled sunlight of a cool autumn day.

It was a grand…

November 29, 2016 3:00 am
recreation

Hunting program pairs aides with vets

They arranged for me to hunt with an injured Army veteran. … At that moment, a suicide bomber walked into the mess tent wearing the uniform of … Central Oregon,” “Fishing Mount Hood Country,” “Hunting Oregon” and other titles.

November 29, 2016 12:35 am

Veteran’s daughter grateful for support after Facebook post

A local family is feeling thankful after an inquiry on social media resulted in a deluge of offers for help.

Kimberly Harting of Hermiston said hundreds of people wrote her with kind words and offers of free flags or other help after she asked who she could call to help her father, Larry Hatle of Umatilla, replace the weathered American flag he flies in his yard along with a Marine Corps flag.

Harting said she had noticed

November 28, 2016 3:29 pm