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Black and Hispanic Veterans were twice as likely to test positive for COVID-19, even after accounting for underlying health conditions.

Study points to race, ethnicity as COVID-19 risk factors

Posted on Wednesday, October 7, 2020 9:00 amSeptember 30, 2020 Posted in Research by Erica Sprey 2k views

The research team included investigators from the VA Palo Alto Health Care System, VA Puget Sound Health …

Drs. Michelle Estrella and Michael Shlipak of the San Francisco VA believe the cystatin C test is much more accurate in detecting kidney disease than the one that has long been used in standard medical practice, the creatinine test. Here, they are working with a machine that measures both tests.

VA researchers striving to improve detection of kidney disease

Posted on Monday, October 5, 2020 9:00 amOctober 5, 2020 Posted in Research by Mike Richman 1k views

His first big paper on cystatin C appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2005. Shlipak and his …

A new VA study finds that men and women are harboring different thoughts in the moments before they decide to die by suicide. “Women feel personally like they are not worth anything, and men feel like the world has sort of let them down,” says the lead author, Dr. Lauren Denneson.

Study: Different emotions may drive male, female Veterans to attempt suicide

Posted on Friday, October 2, 2020 9:00 amSeptember 28, 2020 Posted in Research, Top Stories by Mike Richman 2 comments 1k views

In interviews with the researchers, 25 male Veterans and 25 female Veterans who had made a recent suicide …

Dr. Jasmohan Baja is a gastroenterologist and researcher with VA and Virginia Commonwealth University.

Study: Fecal transplant therapy may reduce alcohol misuse

Posted on Monday, September 21, 2020 9:00 amSeptember 14, 2020 Posted in Research by Tristan Horrom 1 comment 1k views

This is the first human study to test fecal microbiota transplant to potentially reduce alcohol addiction, …

VA CURES is led by infectious disease, critical care, and pulmonary experts in VA. The program’s studies are evaluating drugs for different stages of COVID-19 infection.

VA researchers to study blood plasma for treating seriously ill COVID-19 patients

Posted on Thursday, September 17, 2020 9:00 amSeptember 14, 2020 Posted in Research, Top Stories by Mike Richman 620 views

Some 700 Veterans who are hospitalized at VA medical centers are being enrolled in the trial, with half …

Dr. Kath Bogie's research lab at the VA Advanced Platform Technology Center in Cleveland. Pictured from left to right, Dhruv Seshadri, Katie Schwartz, Kath Bogie, Bryan Hausman, and Jason Collins.

VA researcher develops ‘smart bandage’ technology for chronic wounds

Posted on Wednesday, September 16, 2020 9:00 amSeptember 14, 2020 Posted in Research by Erica Sprey 1k views

It is a problem that Dr. Kath Bogie has been working on intermittently for nearly 15 years. Bogie and a team …

Dr. Alex Chan and Dr. Ngan Huang are studying a model of peripheral artery disease to learn whether nicotine will block the creation of new blood vessels in response to therapeutic stem cells.

VA researchers study effects of smoking on therapeutic stem cells

Posted on Tuesday, September 15, 2020 9:00 amSeptember 11, 2020 Posted in Research by Mike Richman 435 views

Huang and Dr. Alex Chan, a postdoctoral research fellow at VA Palo Alto, are studying the effects of …

Veteran and his wife

Delivering Precision Oncology to Improve Veteran care

Posted on Tuesday, September 8, 2020 2:00 pmSeptember 4, 2020 Posted in Health, Research, Technology, Top Stories by Ashleigh Barry 5k views

VA's Precision Oncology program has significantly grown over the past several years and today is used in …

VA researchers studied how PTSD affects response to depression treatment.

Study offers insight on how PTSD affects response to depression treatment

Posted on Thursday, August 20, 2020 6:00 pmAugust 15, 2020 Posted in Research by Tristan Horrom 972 views

Now, a new analysis based on a large VA study on depression showed that patients with or without PTSD had …

Marty Sigel, a 77-year-old Navy Veteran, tries out some meditation on a July day in Baltimore.

Meditation linked to lower cardiovascular risk

Posted on Monday, July 27, 2020 2:00 pmJuly 23, 2020 Posted in Health, Research by Tristan Horrom 1k views

Previous studies have suggested that meditation may have beneficial effects on a number of conditions. A …

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