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16.         Nov 7, 2025 Dr Paul Harch and John Salcedo Documentary, Undeniable Evidence: Clean Medicine, Dirty Politics: The Hyperbaric Institute released an award-winning documentary which asserts that the VA’s lack of coverage for HBOT contributes to veteran suicide rates — and calls for congressional review and legislative action.

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"Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be." - Sydney J. Harris The sky hasn't fallen. But this isn't about politics, though nothing these days seems to be free of tough choices amidst competing interests and "truth." This is a reflection on choices we as a country face with respect to medicine, specifically brain wounds, mental health, and modern alternatives and supplements to standards of care that are outdated. Consider: Compared to most of medicine, Brain Science is in its infancy. A quick review of the historical record shows the recent rush of new science: Early-history: Trephination, an early form of brain surgery, was used to treat a variety of conditions, including: Relieving pressure in the skull, Treating symptoms of epilepsy and sinusitis, and curing supernatural or otherworldly conditions. Remains of the brothers, who lived during the Bronze Age between 1550 BC and 1450 BC, were found with holes in their skulls during an excavation of a tomb in the ancient city of Tel Megiddo. The Incas beat Europeans to it, but fossils show that brain surgery may have begun around 2.5 million years ago, during the late Paleolithic period. Pre-modern: Al-Zahrawi performed surgical treatments for head injuries, skull fractures, and other conditions in Al-Andalus from 936 to 1013 AD. Simple neurosurgery was performed on King Henri II in 1559 after a jousting accident. He didn't survive. 18th century: The Industrial Revolution led to economic and technological growth, which in turn led to medical progress.  19th century: Scientists made discoveries and inventions that helped identify and prevent illnesses, and understand how bacteria and viruses work. Anesthetics were developed, and medical training improved. Cushing ushers in modern neurosurgery in 1895. 20th century: Research focused on infectious diseases and how they spread. Many pathogenic organisms were discovered and classified, including viruses, which cause diseases like polio, measles, and mumps.  1950s: Antibiotics were discovered, and the mechanisms of metabolic diseases were understood.  1960s and 1970s: The scientific method became more important than tradition and authority. Treatments had to be shown to be effective through statistically sound techniques.  1980s to 2000: Robot-assisted surgery, Vaccine for Hepatitis “B”; MRI scanner; Statins; Laser Cataract Surgery; Gamow bag (hyperbaric bag for treating altitude sickness); tiny camera on a pill; Radiosurgery (for epilepsy and malignant tumors); Viagra. 2000 to present: Human Genome completed; CRISPR; worldwide BRAIN projects; Nobel prize for importance of oxygen, discovery of the glymphatic system, (re)discovery of translational/functional/ alternative medicine. In 2024, "invisible wounds" are no longer invisible. Brain scanning and sophisticated biomarker techniques can reveal brain wounds and provide hints for interventions to cure those wounds. And we continue to discover many of the mechanisms of action that impede brain health, and how HBOT addresses conditions like inflammation, oxygen delivery, proliferation of stem cells, healing, restoration of brain functions necessary for health, and ageing. The glymphatic system, an undiscovered body system until 2012, helps the brain clear metabolic waste, excess fluid, and proteins. It's thought that glitches in the glymphatic system may contribute to the buildup of harmful waste in the brain, which could lead to conditions like Alzheimer's disease, stroke, and Parkinson's disease. HBOT, by reducing inflammation and growing new blood vessels, restores glymphatic system regularity. Consider the impact of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on our understanding of brain mechanics. The prize was awarded to William G. Kaelin Jr., Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe, and Gregg L. Semenza for their discoveries about how cells sense and adapt to oxygen levels. The scientists' work revealed the molecular machinery that regulates gene activity in response to oxygen levels. This process is essential for hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF). Dr. Shai Efrati, a veteran HBOT researcher, has recently published BEYOND NORMAL, How the new Science of Enhanced Medicine Elevates Peak Performance and Repairs Brain Injury. In it, he speaks directly to the power of Hyperbaric Oxygenation, coupled with HIF, to restore brain function. His ground-breaking work provides remarkable insights about oxygen delivery for Stroke, Concussion, PTSD, Fibromyalgia, neurologic disorders like Alzheimers's, peak physical performance, and the science of "reverse ageing." Bottom line: new advances in medicine have escaped many medical school graduates who have never heard of HBOT, the glymphatic system, or HIF. Sadly, medicine and insurance rules make it difficult for doctors to really listen to patients to do proper diagnoses, The lack of time to read outside their discipline means doctors are uninformed. Victims of brain wounds are underserved and often unknowing about safe, effective, available, and less costly interventions to deal with their mis- or mal-diagnosed TBI/PTSD/Concussion. In the midst of a complex and often contentious healthcare landscape, we find ourselves grappling with critical choices that directly impact the lives of countless individuals suffering from brain injuries and mental health challenges. The urgency for modern alternatives to outdated care standards has never been more pronounced, as we witness the heartbreaking epidemics of suicide, concussions, and mental health issues affecting veterans and civilians alike. At TreatNOW, we are committed to illuminating the path forward by educating key stakeholders—Congress, the Department of Defense, and the general public—about the proven benefits of innovative treatments like Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT). Our efforts are driven by a deep compassion for those struggling with the aftermath of brain wounds and a resolute belief in the power of timely intervention to facilitate healing. As we tirelessly advocate for policy changes that will enhance access to effective treatments, we invite you to join us in championing this vital mission. Together, we can break the logjam and ensure that those in need receive the care they deserve. ****************************** The TreatNOW Mission is ending service member suicides. Along the way, we have learned that we can end suicidal ideation, help end symptoms of PTSD, get patients off most of their drugs, and heal brain wounds to end the effects of BLAST injury, mild TBI Persistent Post Concussive Syndrome, and polytrauma from AHI and Burn Pits. Diabetic Foot Ulcers have become a major emphasis. www.treatnow.org Heal Brains. Stop Suicides. Restore Lives. TreatNOW Information provided by TreatNOW.org does not constitute a medical recommendation. 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** I'm from the government and I'm here to help. ** We're doing everything humanly possible to get your better. ** I have nothing but your best interests in mind. ** All men are created equal. ** Secretary of Defense McNamara's and Vice President Cheney's justifications for going to war. ** To care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan.   Let’s confront an obvious “truth” facing us: despite obvious differences of opinion about the “best” way forward as a society, we are generally in agreement that we can fix problems. Scientists have split problems into “tame” and “complex” and “wicked.” “Tame” problems have a clear definition, and it is easy to identify the point at which they are solved . Complex problems have a clear agreement on the nature of the problem, but not on the solutions . In contrast, wicked problems lack agreement on both their definition and their solution. They are people problems, not math or science problems.  A wicked problem is a social or cultural issue or concern that is difficult to explain and inherently impossible to "solve." Examples of wicked problems today include things like education standards, tax policy, health care, climate change, affirmative action, when to go to war, and immigration. And, of course, how to treat and heal brain wounds. Even the definition of “brain wound” is a wicked problem when doctors aren’t trained in the new science.  Wicked problems never have straight-forward solutions. By their very nature, wicked problems are human problems. When elevated in the political arena, wicked problems can’t be solved, only managed. It’s that old dilemma: do you want to make a statement, or do you want to make progress? Unless people who disagree really want to make progress, there’s no managing a wicked problem: there’s only a dialogue of the deaf that results in continued suffering, lack of progress, accusations, prevarication, finger-pointing, and resentment.  Let’s face it: politics is more and more running from wicked problems. Even tame problems like seat belt use started out as am wicked problem which eventually was tamed by resort to math, engineering, and economics and gradual demonstrations of results.  Lately, polarized politics turns all problems into wicked problems. Thus, politics has become a series of half-truths dressed up as policy statements that become rallying cries and wish lists. The HARD work of compromise is necessary to turn wicked problems into a series of small steps toward legislative compromise and lasting change. Not a solution, but a series of manageable steps and compromises that equal progress and positive change.  Concerning Veterans, four half-truths that have become whole lies are instructive.  One, service members have been told that there’s little that can be done for Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) other than pass through a variety of palliative care facilities: the NICoE, DVBIC, Intrepid Spirit Centers, PREP programs, specialized care, and a seemingly endless set of appointments for drug distribution, talk therapy, physical and occupational and various therapies designed to allow patients to learn new ways to live with the new, sub-standard normal.  Current reports from the DVBIC at Walter Reed belie the advertisements: “The underlying goal of DVBIC is to ensure that active duty military and veterans with brain injury receive the best evaluation, treatment, and follow-up.” It is at best only half true. More and more patients report unwillingness to properly diagnose TBI, choosing “mental health” or PTSD as the diagnosis. Treatments ignore a proven, safe, and effective use of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT). The VA and Military medicine continue in their ignorance about the proven science, including ignoring positive results with patients using HBOT after leaving Walter Reed. Two, Veterans with Diabetic Foot Ulcers (DFUs) are rarely told that they can probably avoid lower limb amputations if only the VA would routinely use an on-label, proven, insured, and widely available use of HBOT. There is an implied promise that VA doctors will use EVERY means available to avoid amputations. The VA’s malignant behavior in NOT informing patients about the availability of HBOT outside the VA means that patients get a half truth: we are following a healing protocol where the ultimate path may be amputation. Since the protocol does not include HBOT as an option, the VA reports the following harrowing numbers: 796,340 Veterans have died from Diabetic Foot Ulcer (DFU) and Lower Limb Amputation (LLA) in the past 22-years, more than all the Veterans KIA in all the U.S. Wars (623,982) since the beginning of World War I. Approximately 94% were not offered HBOT treatments. Three, numerous Veterans and other USG employees have been victimized by Havana Syndrome (aka Anomalous Health Incidents or AHI). The overwhelming majority of those who have come forward have not been properly diagnosed for the injuries they experienced. A widening gulf between promises from the USG related to care, insurance, treatments and support are honored in the breach.  Leaving aside the politics of the origins, methods, timing, responsibility, and continuing attacks, the victims have been mistreated and effectively told that they are no longer worthy of honorable treatment and care. Instead of adequate treatment of what appears to be traumatic brain injuries in a majority of the cases, victims receive limited care, limited financing of care, abuse during care, and a cold shoulder from parent agencies as their lives and careers go downhill. Imagine being told that your headaches, migraines, fatigue, balance, mental abilities, hearing loss, memory, anger, depression and more are in all probability a result of a mass psychogenic illness or, worse, an attempt to get increased disability payments? One struggles to find the half-truth in the on-going saga of a government abandoning its very best.   Four, service members affected by BLAST overpressure are receiving renewed interest as a result of work in the Senate Armed Services Committee. A parade of government witnesses continues to affirm that they are doing everything humanly possible, even though it is common knowledge that DOD is not doing enough to prevent injuries. Here’s a half truth: DOD and the VA claim to be learning from their own research about BLAST overpressure. The other part of the equation that is a whole lie is that neither DoD nor the VA will use HBOT to heal the brain wounds resulting from BLAST overpressure. This is especially onerous since doctors inside Marine units prescribe HBOT for TBIs, allowing not-for-profit HBOT clinics and foundations to pay for the brain wounds. Despite the successes in the TreatNOW Coalition clinics, TBIs have not even been adequately diagnosed in service members committing suicide from the very units called out by the New York Times as suffering inordinate numbers of brain casualties.   The validity of using HBOT for wound healing to the brain is validated in the most recent research. Unsurprisingly, delivering oxygen under pressure safely and economically leads to effective wound healing. The FDA already approves HBOT for wound healing. That statement is true. What would make it even more true is if medicine recognized that "invisible wounds" should be treated as wounds. HBOT is essentially already on-label when the new science of brain wounding is taken into account. Numerous other interventions for brain wounds with comorbid maladies have a much better chance of effectiveness when the concussion cascade is interrupted, healed, and reversed. That statement is also generally true. The half-truth and, thus, whole lie, is that medicine in the DoD and the VA claim to be keeping up with the new science in their Centers of Excellence. Yet they disdain and ignore the Mechanisms of Action of brain wounding, and the interventions in use around the world that are healing those wounds. The sad fact is also that the VA and DoD persist in continuing to repeat the lies that their research proves that HBOT is unproven, unsafe, ineffective, costly, risky, or worse. The rest of the world and over 31,000 satisfied HBOT patients -- among them over 12,000 active duty and Veterans -- know the truth revealed in over 21 peer-reviewed clinical trials. ****************************** The TreatNOW Mission is ending service member suicides. Along the way, we have learned that we can end suicidal ideation, help end symptoms of PTSD, get patients off most of their drugs, and heal brain wounds to end the effects of BLAST injury, mild TBI Persistent Post Concussive Syndrome, and polytrauma from AHI and Burn Pits. Diabetic Foot Ulcers have become a major emphasis. www.treatnow.org Heal Brains. Stop Suicides. Restore Lives. TreatNOW Information provided by TreatNOW.org does not constitute a medical recommendation. It is intended for informational purposes only, and no claims, either real or implied, are being made Read the full article

“The Cost of Doing Business” is frequently used to describe the overhead costs or losses that are expected but unpredictable. For example, breakage, disaster damage, Covid closings, lawsuits, or, god forbid, protection money or “incentive” payments. Most businesses have insurance or an “other” category for unexpected losses. In the world of war/national defense, equipment like planes and ships and tanks deteriorate – or “depreciate” – over time. They are both fixed costs and subject to deterioration and total loss. Accountants take account of those costs. It’s not quite the same with human life and death, and particularly injuries like brain wounded Veterans. In the world of Labor, salaries are a known expense, and are not typically tax deductible. The rules around professional athletes’ salaries, however, are quite different. Owners like Steve Ballmer of the LA Clippers NBA team can take the kinds of deductions on team assets — everything from media deals to player contracts — that industrialists and the Pentagon take on factory equipment. Those lowered taxes allow owners to pay far less tax than the players or even the workers in the snack bar. For the Defense Department, tax considerations play little role in budgeting other than “the cost of doing business” is measured in lives, and readiness, and morality. It’s been twenty years since the death of Pat Tilman, the NFL player who left the Arizona Cardinals to become an Army Ranger. His death by friendly fire continued a tradition of sacrifice going back several wars, joining Bob Kalsu and Nile Kinnick on the honor role of NFL KIAs. George McAfee, Art Donovan, Chuck Bednarik, Rocky Bleier, Chad Hennings, and Alejandro Villanueva were NFL players who came back to pro careers after service. Whether in the NFL or the military, they were expendable. They accepted this. But the fact remains: rehabilitation after major injuries, especially TBI/PTSD, then and now, is far short of what is possible to return the “asset” to a state of health. The records also show how some of the richest people on the planet use their membership in the exclusive club of pro sports team owners to lower their tax bills. The records upend conventional wisdom about how taxation works in America. Billionaire owners are consistently paying lower tax rates than their millionaire players — and often lower even than the rates paid by the workers who staff their stadiums. The massive reductions on personal tax bills that owners glean from their teams come on top of the much-criticized subsidies the teams get from local governments for new stadiums and further deplete federal coffers that fund everything from the military to medical research to food stamps and other safety net programs. Government Contractors have long been known to work the system to both keep out opposition and lower their tax burdens. All businesses flirt with tax loopholes and aggressive accounting to lower costs and increase profits. But in the world of athletes and service members, there’s a particularly odious reality: service members and athletes are expendable commodities that have to be replenished or taken off the books to achieve peak performance, to win. In a sport this violent, the question is not whether a player will get hurt, but when. According to a 2017 Harvard analysis the mean injury rate in the NFL is 5.90 injuries a game, compared with 0.45 in MLB, 0.16 in the NBA and 0.59 in the NHL. "The average NFL career lasts 3.3 years, according to the NFL Players' Association; 78 percent of players go broke within three years of retirement and 15.7 percent file for bankruptcy within 12 years of leaving the league, according to a paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research." But the hidden costs affect not just the pros. Of the 44 million children and adolescents participating in sports, the estimated incidence of concussion is 1.1–1.9 million yearly. Generally, children are expected to recover in 28 days, but symptoms can last longer, and this is known as persistent/prolonged post-concussion symptoms (PPCS). Cost of doing business? Certainly for a family that doesn’t realize it doesn’t have to be this way. They have not been told about the research and clinical evidence showing hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) heals wounds and eliminates symptoms from concussion within one week. On this Labor Day, here's a FACT CHECK ON TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP of untreated brain wounds. It would be a one-time adjusted cost of $19.7 Billion to treat and help heal all 877,450 TBI Veterans with 80 HBOT treatments. Continuing with the failed pharmacology and talk therapy treatment protocols results in an estimated Veteran re-occurring annual lifetime economic impact of $4.7 Trillion. Over the 40-year lifetime of TBI Veterans, treating versus not treating brain wounds is less than 0.42 percent of the total impact cost to not treat all TBI Veterans. And suicides among those brain wounded would be virtually eliminated. The National Brain-Wounded Veteran Brain Drain: Cost-Benefit Analysis of Changing the DoD and VA Standard of Care for TBI and Suicide Prevention. www.treatnow.org The validity of using HBOT for wound healing to the brain is validated in the most recent research. Unsurprisingly, delivering oxygen under pressure safely and economically leads to effective wound healing. Numerous other interventions for comorbid maladies have a much better chance of effectiveness when the concussion cascade is interrupted, healed, and reversed. ****************************** The TreatNOW Mission is ending service member suicides. Along the way, we have learned that we can end suicidal ideation, help end symptoms of PTSD, get patients off most of their drugs, and heal brain wounds to end the effects of BLAST injury, mild TBI Persistent Post Concussive Syndrome, and polytrauma from AHI and Burn Pits. Diabetic Foot Ulcers have become a major emphasis. www.treatnow.org Heal Brains. Stop Suicides. Restore Lives. TreatNOW Information provided by TreatNOW.org does not constitute a medical recommendation. It is intended for informational purposes only, and no claims, either real or implied, are being made. Read the full article

  ********************* SGT Jerrald Jensen is one of over 100,000 service members issued Other Than Honorable discharges since 9/11. The majority are combat veterans, most with undiagnosed or mis-diagnosed brain wounds. A Pulitzer Prize-winning series catalogs SGT Jensen's travails, along with multiple others caught up in a surreal legal web that is merciless, even when confronted with documented BLAST injuries and diagnosable brain wounds. Though changes in law may allow a Veteran with an OTH to get some health benefits, the losses are punitive and life-altering. OTH, bad conduct, or dishonorable discharges can prevent employment, ability to obtain a security clearance, and assuredly taint self-image and mental attitudes. While the system needs retributive justice for certain kinds of conduct, the use of diminished mental capacity due to brain injuries to expedite separation from service is a travesty. This tragic misuse of military justice continues as more details come to light about the BLAST injuries sustained by combat veterans. Even firing your own weapon, much less larger caliber weapons and M777 howitzers, can cause brain damage. As we wrote about the Marine Battalion in Iraq, the damage done to dozens of Marines resulted from unprecedented combat. 'The artillery battalion “fired more rounds in five months in Raqqa, Syria, than any other Marine artillery battalion, or any Marine or Army battalion, since the Vietnam War.” During a Marine Corps Times roundtable discussion in 2018, the former senior enlisted adviser to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said 35,000 artillery rounds were used to kill ISIS terrorists “by the dozens." 'For comparison, 60,000 rounds were fired by the Marines and the Army during the First Gulf War. And during the initial invasion of the Iraq War, over 34,000 artillery shells were fired." Unprecedented firepower, and unprecedented and undocumented brain damage. True, mental health problems accompanied that wounding, but root cause analysis would have found mitigating circumstances for the behavior that followed. The military is not alone in downplaying or ignoring the ravages of repeated brain wounding. The International Conference on Concussion in Sport once again failed in October last year to recognize brain wounding as a potential cause of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. Even, perhaps especially, the world of sports appears willfully clueless about the links between brain wounding and physical, mental, and behavioral deterioration. Dylan Hartley, former Captain of the all-England rugby team, is too familiar with brain wounds from his playing days. He is not part of the suit being brought a group of former players against World Rugby, the Rugby Football Union and the Welsh Rugby Union, for "failure to protect (the claimants) from the risks caused by concussions". He did, nevertheless, experience the plethora of traumas that led to his feeling "virtually broken" prior to his treatment and transformation with Hyperbaric Oxygenation in Dubai. Rugby worldwide is awakening to the long-term damage that can be inflicted on the brain playing high-level impact sports. They are following a path being trod in many sports. The NFL is still not able to come to grips with the documented links between head trauma and the post-mortem proof of a life lived with degenerative CTE: 345 out of 376 brains of dead former NFL players riddled with brain wounds caused by CTE. Hundreds of former college athletes are suing the NCAA. The claims are that “For years (the NCAA) has kept players like Matthew Gee and the public in the dark about an epidemic that was slowly killing college athletes,” Alana Gee's lawsuit said. “Long after they played their last game, they are left with a series of neurological conditions that could slowly strangle their brains. . . . problems ranging from headaches to depression and, sometimes, early onset Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s disease." BLAST injury, contact sports, falls, assaults, strokes, concussions. In one sense, Other Than Honorable discharges are the least of a Veterans problems alongside the slow deterioration of the brain. As we continue to insist: Heal Brains. Stop Suicides. Restore Lives. Use a proven, scientifically validated treatment: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy. TreatNOW. Information provided by TreatNOW.org does not constitute a medical recommendation. It is intended for informational purposes only, and no claims, either real or implied, are being made. Heal Brains. Stop Suicides. Restore Lives. TreatNOW   Read the full article

BRINGING YOU CURRENT INFORMATION ABOUT HOW TO HELP TREAT AND HEAL BRAIN WOUNDS: CONCUSSIONS, TBI, PTSD This report brings you information about how HBOT can be used to help with symptoms due to BLAST damage, and advances in seeing "invisible" wounds. Remember: despite loose talk about how "almost all mild Traumatic Brain Injuries heal themselves," evidence shows that 25% - 30% of TBIs lead to lifetime complications. ********************* Early Brain Amyloid Accumulation at PET in Military Instructors Exposed to Subconcussive Blast Injuries In this prospective study from January 2020 to December 2021, military instructors who were routinely exposed to repeated blast events were evaluated at two different points: baseline (before blast exposure from breacher or grenade) and approximately 5 months after baseline (after blast exposure). Age-matched healthy control participants not exposed to blasts and without a history of brain injury were evaluated at similar two points. In the blast-exposed participants, four brain regions showed significantly increased amyloid deposition after blast exposure. . . . No amyloid deposition was observed in the control participants. . . . Our results may have direct clinical implications: if the individuals that are at risk for developing amyloid-related neurotoxicity can be identified, therapies to clear amyloid β in the brain might reduce or slow the development of long-term secondary traumatic encephalopathy. New AI tool can spot ‘invisible’ brain damage in college athletes A new AI tool developed by NYU researchers can effectively spot brain changes that happen from repeated head injuries. Specifically, it can pick up on injuries that traditional medical imaging misses. Evidence is now starting to show that that repeated head impacts, even if they seem to be mild at first, may lead to cognitive decline over time. Advanced MRI can identify microscopic changes in brain structure from head trauma, but the scans yield a lot of data that can be hard to examine. This new technology utilizes machine learning to accurately compare the brains of male athletes who played contact sports like football and non-contact sports like track and field. The researchers studied hundreds of brain images from 81 male college athletes, 36 contact sport players (mainly football players) and 45 non-contact sport athletes (mainly runners and baseball players). The team found repeated head impacts with small structural changes in the brains of contact-sport athletes. Most interestingly, none of the participants had been diagnosed with a concussion. UK issues The UK Concussion Guidelines for Non-Elite (Grassroots) Sport "If in Doubt, Sit Them Out." Amateur sports in the UK now have updated Guidelines aimed at identifying and improving the handling of concussions in amateur sports. Teams can be part of a two-year programme of research into concussion in grassroots sport, using an app to track the symptoms of injury and their treatment. According to the guidelines, anyone who sustains a concussion should not play contact sport for 21 days and should not return to any form of training for 14 days. VA Neurologist Terminated Following Care Denials Mary Jo Lanska, MD, has been terminated by the Veterans Administration (VA) after an investigation by KARE 11 in Minneapolis revealed a pattern of misdiagnosis and benefit denials spanning decades, the outlet reported. Since 2002, Lanska has evaluated more than 1,000 veterans at the Tomah VA in Wisconsin -- 600 of whom were denied benefits and are now eligible for re-testing by the VA. An earlier review of a "random selection of Dr. Lanska's benefits exams found 31% were done incorrectly," according to KARE 11. Many of those who had care denied were evaluated for traumatic brain injuries. They will now have their cases reviewed and could be granted backdated benefits. The House Committee on Veterans Affairs recently called for the Inspector General to investigate a "systemic failure" to provide adequate care for traumatic brain injuries to veterans across the nation. Lanska's firing comes after a larger pattern of denials was revealed starting in 2015, and led to a national review of mishandled compensation claims for similar reasons. Alpha Cognition Receives Army Medical Research Grant for Study on Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) from Blast Induced Functional Deficit and Brain Pathology Alpha Cognition Inc., a biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapeutics for debilitating neurodegenerative disorders, is pleased to announce the that it has been awarded a $750,000 grant from the Army Medical Research and Material Command (AMRMC) for a pre-clinical study on the use of ALPHA-1062 Intranasal (IN) to reduce blast mTBI induced functional deficit and brain abnormalities. The aim of the study is to evaluate the efficacy of ALPHA-1062IN in reducing the adverse effects of repetitive blast induced-mTBI in pre-clinical models. A blast injury can lead to long-term functional issues and brain abnormalities, which can have a significant impact on the quality of life of those affected. “The body of evidence is growing to show that people who have suffered a TBI, even a mild TBI, are at greater risk of developing dementia in later life and are at risk for additional neurocognitive issues." An integral part of this research program will evaluate ALPHA-1062’s ability to reduce a toxic form of a brain protein known to be increased in this military relevant TBI model. . . . Accumulation of toxic Tau in the brain is linked to dementia progression, and was previously shown to be decreased by ALPHA-1062 in a separate pre-clinical model of moderate TBI. Information provided by TreatNOW.org does not constitute a medical recommendation. It is intended for informational purposes only, and no claims, either real or implied, are being made. Heal Brains. Stop Suicides. Restore Lives. TreatNOW     Read the full article