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Health & Wellness
Details: Links to health and wellness topics covered by VA's Office of Public Health, including tobacco and health, vaccination, and preventing infections Apply for and manage the VA benefits and services you’ve earned as a Veteran, Servicemember, or family member—like health care, disability, education, and …
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Employee Occupational Health
Details: This Web page provides information on employee occupational health services for the Veterans Health Administration. Apply for and manage the VA benefits and services you’ve earned as a Veteran, Servicemember, or family member—like health care, disability, education, and more.
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Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)
Details: VA has implemented an aggressive public health response to protect and care for Veterans, their families, health care providers, and staff in the face of this emerging health risk. We are working directly with the CDC and other federal partners to monitor the outbreak of the virus. On November 9, 2020 VA shared its COVID-19 Response Report
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Vaccines and Immunization
Details: To learn more, visit VA's National Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention page on recommended vaccines and screening tests, or go to Vaccines.gov. return to top . Contact. Health Care 877-222-8387 TDD (Hearing Impaired) 800-829-4833 CONNECT. Veterans Crisis Line: 1 …
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VA’s Environmental Health Registries
Details: VA offers six Environmental Health Registries. These registries provide voluntary medical assessments for Veterans who may have been exposed to certain environmental hazards during military service. Registry exams are done at no cost to Veterans. A Veteran does not need to be enrolled in VA health care to apply. The six VA registries are:
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VA benefits and services for Veterans
Details: Veterans who were exposed to airborne hazards or open burn pits during deployment may be eligible to participate in the Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry (AHOBPR). Veterans can also submit a claim for disability compensation if they believe that there is a connection between an exposure and their health and obtain VA health care.
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What is a registry
Details: VA offers a registry for you. A registry is defined as a system for collecting and maintaining, in a structured record, data on specific persons from a defined population, which allows for preliminary research analyses and reviews. Two broad categories of health registries are disease-based registries and exposurebased registries.
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Military Exposures & Your Health
Details: Military Exposures & Your Health - 2021 -Issue #4 . Introduction. Welcome to the fourth issue of Military Exposures & Your Health. This issue includes information about registries, including findings on allergic rhinitis from the Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry, an overview of all of VA environmental health registries, and a spotlight on Kenya Singleton, MSN, APRN, FNP-BC, and her
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Spotlight on an Environmental Health Clinician
Details: Spotlight on an Environmental Health Clinician: Kenya Singleton, MSN, APRN, FNP-BC. Nurse Practitioner Kenya Singleton is Director of C&P/Environmental Health and VISN 22 Lead Environmental Health Clinician at the VA Loma Linda Healthcare System. Here are her words about her role as a lead Environmental Health Clinician and how her clinic has
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Details: Sexually Transmitted Diseases - Women’s Health Guide Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are infections that are spread by sexual contact with someone who has an STD. STDs are mostly spread through vaginal, anal, or oral sex, and genital touching.
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Airborne Hazards and Burn Pit Exposures
Details: Many health conditions related to these hazards are temporary and should disappear after the exposure ends. Other longer-term health issues may be caused by a combination of hazardous exposures, injuries, or illnesses you may have experienced during your military service.
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Agent Orange Registry Health Exam for Veterans
Details: Agent Orange Registry Health Exam for Veterans. VA's Agent Orange Registry health exam alerts Veterans to possible long-term health problems that may be related to Agent Orange exposure during their military service. The registry data helps VA understand and respond to these health problems more effectively. Contact your local VA Environmental
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Study on health of Veterans deployed to K-2
Details: Study on health of Veterans deployed to K-2. Karshi-Khanabad Air Base, also known as K-2, was a Soviet-era air base, one square mile in size, in southeastern Uzbekistan near the border of Tajikistan. It was used by U.S. Army, Air Force, and Marine forces from 2001-2005. Veterans who were deployed to K-2 may be concerned about health effects
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Have you heard of Exposure Ed
Details: While Exposure Ed is designed to help health care providers give Veterans the most up-to-date information about exposures and health, the app is free and available to the public so that Veterans and their family members can access it as well. The Exposure Ed app can be downloaded via from the Apple Store or Google Play on smartphones or tablets.
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Directory of Environmental Health Coordinators
Details: Directory of Environmental Health Coordinators . Below is a directory of VA Environmental Health Coordinators by state and U.S. territory. Veterans may contact their local VA Environmental Health Coordinator about registry evaluations or health concerns related to military exposures.You may also wish to see the directory for the lead Environmental Health Coordinator in each Veterans Integrated
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Environmental Health Clinicians and Coordinators fill new
Details: Many Environmental Health Clinicians and Coordinators took on new roles to address the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. They provided safe and organized COVID-19 testing, took new clinical positions to treat Veterans, managed the reassignments of medical center staff, and monitored medical staff health; many while continuing to manage previous duties.
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Newsletters on Military Exposures and Your Health
Details: Newsletters on Military Exposures and Your Health. Military Exposures and Your Health provides information for Veterans who served during the Gulf War Era, including 1990 to the present, and their families. Subscribe to email updates and notices of published newsletters. Latest Issue - Issue #4. Issue #3 | PDF (2.1 MB, PDF)
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VA’s WRIISC offers expertise in
Details: Health Care 877-222-8387 TDD (Hearing Impaired) 800-829-4833
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Military Exposures & Your Health
Details: Mindfulness mediation has been shown to be effective in treating several health conditions, such as insomnia, anxiety, high blood pressure, chronic pain, depression, and PTSD. Report released on long-term health effects of antimalarial drugs The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine reviewed existing evidence on the long-term
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Report released on long-term health effects of
Details: On February 25, 2020, NASEM released the report, Assessment of Long-Term Health Effects of Antimalarial Drugs When Used for Prophylaxis. In this report, NASEM reviewed the scientific literature on antimalarials, particularly mefloquine and tafenoquine, that may be associated with neurological and psychiatric effects in adults. NASEM also
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Airborne Hazards and Burn Pit Exposures
Details: VA health care is available to Veterans who may have been exposed to burn pits or other environmental hazards. If you are concerned about the potential health effects of environmental exposures we encourage you to talk to your health care provider, apply for VA health care, and file a claim for compensation and benefits.
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Definition of Terms
Details: Definition of terms used in the booklet, Women’s Health: A Guide to Preventing Infections. Apply for and manage the VA benefits and services you’ve earned as a Veteran, Servicemember, or family member—like health care, disability, education, and more.
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VA Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry
Details: VA established the Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry (AHOBPR) in 2014 to help put data to work for Veterans through research about potential health effects of airborne hazard exposures. By joining the registry, you can provide information to help us better understand whether long-term health conditions may be related to these exposures.
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Airborne Hazards and Burn Pit Exposures
Details: VA, the Department of Defense, and other research entities have conducted a number of studies to better understand whether airborne hazard exposures are related to long-term health issues. Exposure to open burn pits is a serious concern for many Veterans and service members. Available research indicates that most health conditions related to
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VA conducts research to develop a
Details: The Post Deployment Health Services (PDHS) Epidemiology Program is partnering with Robert Bossarte, PhD, MA, of the VISN 2 Center of Excellence for Suicide Prevention at the Canandaigua VA Medical Center and West Virginia University, and with other partners (e.g., Harvard University investigators and topic area consultants) to conduct an
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Golden VA clinic in Colorado excels
Details: The Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry (AHOBPR) allows Veterans who were deployed to Southwest Asia and/or Afghanistan to document their environmental exposures in an online questionnaire and then address any associated health concerns during a free, in-person exam with an Environmental Health Clinician at their local VA medical center.. The Golden VA Clinic began conducting AHOBPR
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McClung appointed Health Physics Society board member
Details: McClung appointed Health Physics Society board member. Danny McClung, BS, RRPT, health physicist and radiological consultant for VA’s Post Deployment Health Services (PHDS), has been appointed as a board member of the Academic, Industrial, and Research Radiation Safety Section of the Health Physics Society. Mr. McClung also received the 2020
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Agent Orange presumptive conditions
Details: Health Care 877-222-8387 Benefits 800-827-1000 TDD (Hearing Impaired) 800-829-4833
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Women’s Health: A Guide to Preventing Infections
Details: Your health care provider can examine you and test for it. Lab samples may be taken from the vagina, bladder, bowels, throat, urine, or eyes. Your health care provider may ask to test you for other infections at the same time. See your health care provider to be tested for gonorrhea each year if you: Are age 25 or younger and are sexually active
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Gulf War presumptions
Details: Gulf War presumptions. For Veterans who served in Southwest Asia from August 2, 1990 to the present, VA presumes service connection and provides disability payments and health care benefits for certain medically unexplained illnesses and infectious diseases. The following medically unexplained illnesses potentially qualify as presumptive
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Health of Gulf War and Gulf War Era Veterans
Details: Health of Gulf War and Gulf War Era Veterans. In 1995, VA conducted a survey study on the health of a sample of 15,000 Gulf War Veterans (deployed) and 15,000 Gulf War Era Veterans (non-deployed). VA followed up with these Veterans with another survey in 2012–2013 to learn about their recent physical and mental health.
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The French Veterans’ Health Observatory
Details: By Colonel Raphael Grippi, PharmD, MBA, French Health Liaison Officer. Similar to U.S. military Veterans, French military Veterans have also encountered environmental exposures during service and have concerns about the impact of these exposures on their health.
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Reports on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses
Details: Health consequences of military service in the 1990-1991 Gulf War, and VA findings based on the reports; Health and Medicine Division Reviews of research on health effects of Gulf War service, and VA responses to the reports; Download free viewer and reader software to …
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