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1. VetsFirst » Blog Archive » VA Drug Tests: Veterans As Guinea Pigs?
In November 2007, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an alert that linked Chantix to suicidal thoughts, psychosis and violent behavior. Nevertheless, the VA waited more than three months before warning veterans about the ...

2. Top 10 Veterans News from Around the Country 11-20-08 : Veterans...
Bob Filner (D-CA), chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, "said Wednesday he will lobby the Obama administration for the...camp and other new initiatives for service members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, ...

3. Chantix Recall: More veterans enrolled in Chantix study than ...
Secretary of Veterans Affairs James B. Peake, M.D. insists that the VA has nothing but the veterans’ best interests in mind in determining courses of treatment. After the joint ABC News / Washington Times broke, allegations emerged ...

4. Va Chantix Fiasco
A key congressional leader says he has no confidence in the Department of Veterans Affairs and would have pulled his own children out of the VA's human subject study that used a drug with dangerous side effects that is being prescribed ...

5. Chantix Recall: VA warns veterans about the dangers of Chantix...
James Peake, Veterans Affairs Secretary, said that the 940 veterans in the study would receive a personal warning letter from him. Another 31000 additional veterans would receive the same warning, he told The Washington Times. ...

6. accomplishments for our nation’s veterans in the 110th congress
when i became chairman of the committee on veterans’ affairs, the va was strained to its breaking point by years of chronic underfunding and a “business as usual” attitude. the committee set out an aggressive agenda to identify the ...

7. Chantix safety at the US Veterans Affairs Health Service
Chantix safety at the US Veterans Affairs Health Service. Saturday, May 31, 2008. Jonathan Foulds, MA, MAppSci, PhD. The US Department of Veterans Affairs (which provides healthcare for people who have served in the US armed forces) ...

8. VA Secretary Apologizes over Vet Who Refused Research Study
The secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs has apologized to the family of an Army veteran who died last year after being turned away from a Bronx VA hospital after he refused to participate in an Alzheimer's disease study. ...

9. us dept. of veterans affairs turns soldiers into lab rats - party ...
... of veterans affairs turns soldiers into lab rats. party for socialism and liberation - 12 hours ago. of those, james elliott, 38, was one of 143 veterans who were paid $30 a month and placed on an anti-smoking drug called chantix. ...

10. Veterans Affairs Blames Self For Chantix Testing
On July 9, 2008, under harsh questioning from lawmakers, Department of Veterans Affairs watchdogs concluded that the department failed to alert veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder in a timely manner to the dangers ...