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Venture to focus on brain injuries

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Haley and USF will study injuries like those suffered by troops in explosions. At a news conference outside Haley, Rep. Kathy Castor, D-Tampa, said she recently inserted language in the National Defense Authorization Act that gives the Haley-USF partnership "a leg up" in getting some of that $450-million.

Questions mount for VA

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U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor called the rates at which Tampa Bay veterans hospitals turn away sick patients "unbelievable" Thursday, and urged the man slated to take over the Department of Veterans Affairs to address the problem.

USF, Moffitt, Haley in line for federal funds

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Funding for projects in the Tampa Bay area to advance electronic medical records, cancer research and brain injury are included in the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2008. U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Tampa) said in a release that the initiatives would improve basic health care for the underserved, veterans and working people in the Bay area.

Warriors Home in Washington

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NY TIMES EDITORIAL The House has acted swiftly to deal with some of the shameful conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center... worthy provisions would mandate more physicians for the system and a moratorium on outsourcing medical needs to private contractors.