Audit: Vets with brain injury still not getting proper care

Courtesy Headlines from the Associated Press  Thu, 05/01/2008 - 11:00

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Many Iraq war veterans with traumatic brain injury are not getting adequate health care and job assistance for their long-term recovery despite years of government pledges to do so, Veterans Affairs Department investigators say....


 

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