The Pentagon never told Congress about more than 20,000 hospitalizations involving troops who'd taken the anthrax vaccine, despite repeated promises that such cases would be publicly disclosed. Instead, a parade of generals and Defense Department officials told Congress and the public that fewer than 100 people were hospitalized or became seriously ill after receiving the shot from 1998 through 2000.
Don't Raid Veterans Healthcare to Fund the VA's ID Theft Response
US. Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) today suceeded in passing emergency funding through the Senate Appropriations Committee to ensure that veterans healthcare and benefits are not raided as the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) responds to last month's data security breach.
More Than One-Third of Iraq Troops Suffering Migraines
An unexpectedly high number of troops serving in Iraq are suffering from migraine headaches, researchers report. The debilitating headaches are affecting more than one-third of U.S. soldiers in Iraq, or about twice that in the general U.S. population, according to a study being presented at the annual American headache Society (AHS) meeting now underway in Los Angeles. Conditions the U.S. soldiers face may trigger the pwoerful headaches, study authors say.
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