by Holly LaFon & Zachary Vasile | Apr 22, 2015 | Health
WASHINGTON — The Philadelphia branch of the Department of Veterans Affairs has already fixed some of the problems noted by federal inspectors who said the office altered quality reviews, violated claim policies and had stacks of unopened mail, a top VA official said...
by Holly LaFon & Zachary Vasile | Nov 26, 2014 | Living, Topics
ROCKVILLE, Md. — Thanksgiving should be about family, festivities and football – not fires and food poisoning. But if cooks aren’t cautious in the kitchen, this joyful holiday can take a dangerous turn. And many times, it does. The threat of kitchen fires...
by Holly LaFon & Zachary Vasile | Oct 20, 2014 | Health
WASHINGTON – Dulles International Airport has started screening passengers from three West African nations for Ebola symptoms. The airport in Northern Virginia is one of five that began taking the temperatures of arriving passengers from Liberia, Sierra Leone and...
by Holly LaFon & Zachary Vasile | Jul 17, 2014 | Health
ARLINGTON, Va – Doctors and experts at the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center want health care providers to try treating sleep disorders caused by traumatic brain injury with some common sense – a quiet bedroom, staying away from coffee at bedtime. The...
by Holly LaFon & Zachary Vasile | Jun 12, 2010 | Business & Tech, Immigration
WASHINGTON — People who come to the United States every year seeking protection from persecution are struggling while their cases stall in the backlogged dockets of the nation’s immigration courts. As a result of heightened immigration enforcement in the past...
