Human Subjects Protection Violations At CAVHS

The VA Office of Inspector General received allegations related to research integrity and human subjects protection violations in research projects conducted at the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System. To evaluate these allegations, we made three site visits, catalogued thousands of pages of source documents, interviewed dozens of individuals with relevant information, and met with officials from the Food and Drug Administration, the Office of Research Oversight, and the Office of Research and Development (ORD). We reviewed 13 research projects and described the facility’s research program in detail.

Human Subjects Protections Violations
At The Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System Little Rock, Arkansas Report
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Court:  VA Must Pay Agent Orange Victims

Jul 19, 10:56 PM EDT By SCOTT LINDLAW Associated Press Writer

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- An appeals court chastised the Department of Veterans Affairs on Thursday and ordered the agency to pay retroactive benefits to Vietnam War veterans who were exposed to Agent Orange and contracted a form of leukemia. "The performance of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs has contributed substantially to our sense of national shame," the opinion from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals read. It was not immediately known how much the department would have to pay under the order or how many veterans would be affected.

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Lawyer disputes VA's claim he didn't perform work

By Lex Alexander & Diane Lamb Staff Writers

A senior Department of Veterans Affairs official has falsely told a U.S. senator that a Greensboro attorney critical of the VA's disability-claims system never worked for the VA. Court and agency records, however, show that Craig M. Kabatchnick was among the most senior attorneys defending the VA against disability claims in the early 1990s.

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Army surgeon general ousted amid Walter Reed scandal

POSTED on CNN: 1:24 p.m. EDT, March 12, 2007

Presidential panel investigating military health care

WASHINGTON (WCNN) -- Lt. Gen. Kevin Kiley has lost his job as Army surgeon general, another casualty of the care scandal at Walter Reed Medical Center. Acting Army Secretary Pete Geren asked for Kiley's resignation, and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates approved the action, a senior Pentagon official said. In its official announcement, the Army said Kiley had requested retirement.

Kiley had been made temporary head of Walter Reed, the Army's top hospital, after Army Maj. Gen. George W. Weightman was ousted in the wake of a series in the Washington Post that found soldiers living in deplorable conditions. However, he was very quickly replaced by Gen. Eric Schoomaker amid criticism that Kiley, who was head of Walter Reed from 2000 to 2004, had been aware of the problems at the facility.

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Veterans Director in Arizona Steps Down After Violations

PHOENIX, March 27 — The director of the Arizona Department of Veterans Services resigned Tuesday, days after the public disclosure of health and safety violations at a nursing home for veterans. The violations included patients left in soiled undergarments and covered in bodily fluids leaking from medical devices. The list of violations was in a report dated March 16 and released last week by state health investigators who, acting on an anonymous complaint, examined the Arizona State Veteran Home in central Phoenix over an eight-day period last month. The report was obtained last week by The Arizona Republic and has been widely publicized around the state.

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You can't catch the fox raiding the hen house by setting up an appointment with him on such and such date and time. You pull a Gomer Pile Act "surprise, surprise, surprise" and then and only then will you find the fox with the egg all over his face.

Footnote:

This is precisely how the KKK used to operate during the Civil Rights Movement of the 50's and early Sixties. In those days the KKK moved about freely and with impunity, I wasn't old enough to remember much but I do remember my dad one night at Pine Bluff, AR threatening to shoot the first "Son of Bitch" that stepped on his porch. My youngest brother was bought through the Courts of Pine Bluff by a couple who were members of the KKK.

And the contacts reached all the way from the Governor's Office to Local Law, County and City and private citizens. Remember those wiretaps, contacts in the Postal Service, local law enforement, city and county and The VA I speak about in Closed Minds and in view of the above infomation add The FBI in Little Rock to that list of contacts. Federal laws may have been passed against it, however all that happened was that it went underground and it's still very much alive and as strong as ever.

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