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Oklahoma Veterans’ second chance at career success

Posted on Wednesday, October 28, 2020 6:00 pmOctober 26, 2020 Posted in Health by VAntage Point Contributor 715 views

Read how three Veterans … and dozens more … benefit from the Compensated Work Therapy program at the …

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Veterans Day History and 2020 Teacher Resource Guide

Posted on Wednesday, October 28, 2020 4:00 pmOctober 23, 2020 Posted in #VetResources, VA History by Jean Orzechowicz 78k views

Learn more about Veterans Day history and download the Veterans Day Teacher Resource Guide.

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White Ribbon VA – Take the pledge

Posted on Wednesday, October 28, 2020 2:00 pmOctober 29, 2020 Posted in Health by VAntage Point Staff Report 981 views

VA is joining forces with communities across the nation to launch White Ribbon VA. The aim of White Ribbon …

Navy Veteran Christian Pike is today's Veteran of the Day.

#VeteranOfTheDay Navy Veteran Christian Pike

Posted on Wednesday, October 28, 2020 11:30 amOctober 19, 2020 Posted in Veteran of the Day by VAntage Point Contributor 1k views

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Navy Veteran Christian Pike, who served as a cryptologic technician during …

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63,000 Veterans benefit from VA’s Compensated Work Therapy

Posted on Wednesday, October 28, 2020 10:00 amOctober 27, 2020 Posted in Health by VAntage Point Contributor 39k views

This is Compensated Work Therapy Vocational Rehabilitation Week. More than 63,000 Veterans have benefited …

Dr. Kristina Crothers of VA Puget Sound is leading the collaboratory’s investigation into steroids, which provide relief for inflamed areas of the body. Steroids are one of the three classes of drugs the COVID-19 collaboratory is examining.

COVID-19 ‘collaboratory’ leverages VA treatment data to probe effects of drugs

Posted on Wednesday, October 28, 2020 9:00 amOctober 22, 2020 Posted in Research by Mike Richman 712 views

VA’s COVID Observational Research Collaboratory brings together VA experts to analyze the use and effects …