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Military hospitals, clinics and pharmacies will soon share information on prescriptions written for controlled substances with civilian doctors in nine states, part of a growing effort to stem addiction and illegal transfer of medications such as opioids within the military population.
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Veterans living with advanced cancer will now have access to comprehensive genomic profiling. Foundation Medicine announced that it has won a nationwide contract from the Department of Veterans Affairs National Precision Oncology Program.
The contract covers all of Foundation Medicine’s tests, including FoundationOne CDx and FoundationOne Liquid for solid tumors and FoundationOne Heme for hematological malignancies.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded the first of several regional contracts for its new Community Care Network that will replace various private-sector health care programs for veterans with VA health benefits.
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A National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine committee will conduct a review of the long-term health effects of an anti-malarial drug taken by U.S. troops that has been linked to brain damage and psychiatric disorders.
The committee on Jan. 28 will launch an 18-month study of mefloquine, also known by its brand name, Lariam, and other malaria medications used by military personnel, Peace Corps volunteers and State Department employees over the past several decades.
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Thinking about switching between Tricare Prime and Tricare Select? You’ll have to wait until next November to do it, unless you have some sort of qualifying life event, such as the birth of a baby, a move to a new duty station, marriage or retirement.
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Starting Jan. 1, Tricare will stop covering certain vitamin supplements, including some multivitamins, fluoride and iron, for roughly 25,000 beneficiaries.
Those affected received letters at the end of November from Express Scripts, the company that manages Tricare's pharmacy benefit, notifying them that only vitamins that have been reviewed by the Food and Drug Administration through clinical trials are considered prescription medications and therefore eligible for coverage.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs on Friday announced it would temporarily stop discharging veterans from a program that provides compensation and benefits to family members who take care of them.
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Approximately 1,300 disabled veterans were overpaid thousands of dollars under a Veterans Affairs Department education benefits program last year and now must figure out a way to pay that money back.
Why? Mostly because staff at VA regional offices didn’t check emails, a recent investigation by the VA Office of Inspector General has found.
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Many residents living in El Paso County, Colorado have extremely high levels of toxic chemicals in their bodies compared with other Americans -- apparently from drinking water contaminated by firefighting foam used for decades at Peterson Air Force Base -- according to a first-of-its-kind study released Thursday.
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WASHINGTON — Veterans Affairs officials are touting a new study praising VA hospitalsfor outperforming most private-sector medical options, but rejecting the authors’ conclusions that the findings undermine the administration’s support for shifting more veterans care into the private s