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...founder of The American Legion, died today in Minneapolis. He was 101. Bentley died at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, The American Legion said in a statement. ''I, and the 2.8 million Legionnaires I represent, are proud...

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News
Good news for vets - Dispatch Editorial

...When the outpatient clinic opens, about two weeks from now, the facility will serve what the St. Cloud Veterans Affairs Medical Center director terms a "huge, pent-up demand in the Brainerd area." Currently, veterans from Crow Wing County...

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Opinion
American Legion official to investigate long waits for dentures

...Minnesota to investigate a report that toothless veterans have had to wait more than a year to get dentures at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Robert Hite, a field service representative for the Legion, will inspect the Minneapolis VA Medical Center...

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News
Poirer kidnapping was state's biggest crime story of 1999

...posters all over Minnesota in a desperate hunt for clues. Along the way, some of Blom's co-workers at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Minneapolis thought the janitor they knew as Donald Hutchinson looked like the man on the surveillance...

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News
Former VA hospital doctor expected to admit murders

...was sentenced to two years in prison, and once for lying about his past in obtaining the position at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Northport, N.Y. Swango, who was scheduled to be released from prison in July after serving a three-year...

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News
Colonoscopy proves superior to other, cheaper tests in finding colon cancer

...we have," said Dr. David A. Lieberman, who led the study as chief of gastroenterology at the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Oregon. The study "makes a case for at least considering colonoscopy as a screening test beginning at...

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What
Under pressure, hospitals are using expensive technology to reduce medication blunders

...worrisome side effects and look-alike drug names to lab tests indicating the dosage should be changed. Veterans Affairs medical centers across the country have implemented them. The VA hospitals in East Orange and Lyons, N.J., upgraded...

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Tech
Study links high cholesterol to Alzheimer's; cholesterol-lowering drugs could help

...prevent Alzheimer's disease," said Dr. Kristine Yaffe, chief of geriatric psychiatry at San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center. However, the study was not designed to test the drugs' effects on mental sharpness, and Yaffe said more...

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Health
War veterans find place to turn for help dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder

...attend the weekly support group in Brainerd facilitated by Jim Tuorila, a psychologist with the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in St. Cloud. Support group members may have fought in wars on different battlefields -- World War II...

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News
Open Forum

...the Grand Forks Herald in the Brainerd Dispatch on Friday, Oct. 30, in regards to naming the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center after the late Sen. Paul Wellstone. I have nothing against the senator, but I sure have something against...

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Opinion

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