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Watchdog: 900,000 vets have pending health care requests

AP Health News - Fetched: September 2nd, 2015, 7:01pm UTC

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nearly 900,000 military veterans have officially pending applications for health care from the Department of Veterans Affairs, the department's inspector general said Wednesday, but "serious" problems with enrollment data make it impossible to determine how many veterans were actively seeking VA health care....

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Watchdog: 900,000 vets may have pending health care requests

AP Health News - Fetched: September 2nd, 2015, 5:00pm UTC

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nearly 900,000 military veterans have officially pending applications for health care from the Department of Veterans Affairs, the department's inspector general said Wednesday, but "serious" problems with enrollment data make it impossible to determine how many veterans were actively seeking VA health care....

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2 cases of polio found in Ukraine, caused by mutated virus

AP Health News - Fetched: September 2nd, 2015, 9:00am UTC

LONDON (AP) -- The World Health Organization says officials have found two children stricken by polio in Ukraine, the country's first cases of the paralytic disease in nine years....

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A bold move to save a man's hand: Tucking it into his tummy

AP Health News - Fetched: September 2nd, 2015, 3:00am UTC

Casey Reyes struggled for a way to explain the "sci-fi" surgery doctors were proposing to save her 87-year-old grandfather's badly burned hand....

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