Senate Bill Would Legalize Medical Marijuana For Military Veterans

Two Democratic U.S. senators filed legislation on Wednesday that would effectively legalize medical marijuana for military veterans and let government doctors help them access it.


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Unstoppable Paralyzed Veteran Walks Again!

Centra “Ce-Ce” Mazyck is a super-mom, a woman who laid down her life for her country and a self proclaimed “adrenaline junkie.” But looking at her you wouldn’t know that she’s also a 22-time national wheelchair veterans gold medalist!


But that’s not the amazing thing about Ce-Ce. She is a survivor and defied all odd against her to walk again.


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Shamed for their sacrifice: Military moms don't always get a hero's welcome home

While deployed for six months with the U.S. Navy, Dr. Marion Henry had all the usual worries about being away from her husband and three children at their home in San Diego, California.


But that 2015 deployment — as the Director for Surgical Services on the USNS Mercy — was particularly hard for her, because it meant she missed the first day of school for Jack, then 8, Maggie, then 6, and Katherine, then 3. It was hard, she told TODAY Parents, to miss meeting her children's teachers, knowing which days they had "specials," and getting to know their friends and their friends' parents. When she came home in October, it was "very disorienting," she said.






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First female commander at Fort Leonard Wood wants women to know what's possible for them in military

FORT LEONARD WOOD, MO. • The hallway leading to the commander’s office is adorned with 40 framed pictures, arranged like a long arrow pointing forward, of the men in uniform who have led this sprawling post in the Ozarks.

Bucking the trend, the latest photo added to the wall is of Army Maj. Gen. Donna Martin, the first woman to lead Fort Leonard Wood since it opened in 1941. She’s also one of few African-Americans to do so.

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A female soldier has made it through the Army’s Special Forces selection

For the first time since the Army opened its special operations jobs to women in 2016, a female soldier has completed the initial Special Forces Assessment and Selection process, a spokesman for Army Special Operations Command has confirmed to Army Times.

Several women have attempted the 24-day program, part of the Special Forces Qualification Course, since then, but none have made it to the next round.

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Trump Administration Plots Costly Private-Care Expansion for Veterans

Last June, President Donald Trump signed a landmark law on veterans’ health care after months of tense negotiations. At the ceremony in the Rose Garden, Trump said the bill would deliver on his campaign promise to let veterans see private doctors instead of using the Department of Veterans Affairs’ government-run health service: “I’m going to sign legislation that will make veterans’ choice permanent,” he said.






https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-administration-plots-costly-private-care-expansion-for-veterans

12 Life-Impacting Symptoms Complex PTSD Survivors Endure

Complex trauma is still a relatively new field of psychology. Complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD) results from enduring complex trauma.

Complex trauma is ongoing or repeated interpersonal trauma, where the victim is traumatized in captivity, and where there is no perceived way to escape. Ongoing child abuse is captivity abuse because the child cannot escape. Domestic violence is another example. Forced prostitution/sex trafficking is another.

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Scientists call on VA to study Agent Orange impact in Vietnam veterans' kids

 

A new report calls for the Department of Veterans Affairs to look at the generational impact of male Vietnam veterans' exposure to dioxin -- a component of Agent Orange.

Decades after the Vietnam War ended, the children of soldiers who served say they continue to struggle grapple with the impact of Agent Orange exposure.

The new report, released Thursday by The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, specifically looked into generational health effects of dioxin after a special request from the VA.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/scientists-call-va-study-agent-orange-impact-vietnam/story?id=59217851

Fibromyalgia is Declared as a New Long Term Disability

After osteoarthritis, fibromyalgia is the second most common rheumatic disease.However, it is difficult to choose the previous fibromyalgia because its symptoms fluctuate.


This condition mainly affects women than men. It is characterized by pain in the body accompanied by stiffness and fatigue.


According to Daniel Clauw, MD, professor of anesthesiology at the University of Michigan, said the treatment of pain in an abnormal way in fibromyalgia.


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