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GAO Report Finds Veterans Affairs Facilities Do Not Comply With Privacy Standards For Women
All Department of Veterans Affairs outpatient clinics and hospitals are failing to fully comply with federal privacy standards for women, according to a Government Accountability Office report, the AP/Boston Globe reports. The report comes as thousands of female veterans are entering the VA health system after returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.GAO auditors said that many VA facilities had gynecological tables that faced the door. In one instance, a gynecological table faced a door opening to a waiting room. The investigation also found cases where women had to walk through waiting rooms to use the restroom -- a violation of VA policy requiring adjoining restrooms. Four VA hospitals did not guarantee women access to private bathing facilities. In two of those cases, the facilities did not have locks.Nearly 20% of female veterans have been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, and many of them have experienced sexual trauma while serving, according to the report. The report also said that most female veterans at VA facilities are ages 20 to 29. On average, female veterans using VA facilities are much younger than male VA patients, it noted.Randall Williamson, director of health care issues at GAO, said that although top VA officials are committed to improving care for female veterans, facilities are not always taking simple steps, such as repositioning exam tables. Patricia Hayes, chief consultant for VA"s veterans strategic health care group, said that the agency recognizes issues and is making changes to address disparities in care. She noted that VA is creating a long-term plan for construction improvements to address space and building layout challenges (AP/Boston Globe, 7/15).
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Vets Say Badger Culling Is Necessary To Tackle TB
Badger culling is necessary in certain circumstances to tackle the spread of bovine tuberculosis (bTB), according to the British Veterinary Association (BVA) and British Cattle Veterinary Association (BCVA).
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AP/Washington Post Examines Experimental Malaria Vaccine, Mutant Mosquitoes To Combat Malaria

The AP/Washington Post examines attempts to create a live vaccine and mutant mosquitoes to fight malaria. During the 1990s, Sanaria CEO Stephen Hoffman "irradiated malaria-carrying mosquitoes to weaken the parasites inside them, and he and 13 colleagues subjected themselves to more than 1,000 bites," according to the AP/Washington Post. "Usually malaria parasites race to the liver and multiply before invading the bloodstream" and making their host sick, but these "weakened parasites" sat "harmlessly in the liver, unable to multiply but triggering the immune system to fend off later infections," the AP/Washington Post reports, adding that only one of the people in Hoffman"s test did not achieve immunity "when bitten by regular malaria-infected mosquitoes over the next 10 months." Hoffman said critics charged that turning his experiment into a vaccine was almost impossible and that he was "dismissed by 99 percent of the people in the malaria field." But, two weeks ago about 100 volunteers started receiving doses of Sanaria"s vaccine in a first-stage FDA-approved study. Aside from a vaccine, about "a dozen labs worldwide" are trying to combat malaria by breeding malaria-resistant mosquitoes, the AP/Washington Post reports. David O"Brochta"s lab at the University of Maryland is working on ways to enable mosquitos to pass on malaria parasite resistance to their offspring, according to the AP/Washington Post. To be effective, "a malaria-resistance gene would have to spread a lot faster through mosquito populations," as a result the O"Brochta lab"s main focus is how to speed that up. Sanaria is working on a mosquito that can harbor double the number of immature parasites, to facilitate harvesting the parasites for the vaccine. O"Brochta is working on something similar and is trying to switch off a gene that protects the mosquito when it eats malaria-infected human blood. However, O"Brochta said, "No one has ever made transgenic mosquitoes with this gene knocked out," adding, "We want to cripple its immune system so when it takes an infected meal, it gets infected at very high levels" (Neergaard, AP/Washington Post, 6/8). This information was reprinted from globalhealth.kff.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at globalhealth.kff.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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