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National Referral Program benefits combat veterans with complex medical histories
Published in Health and Medicine Week, September 4th, 2006
According to researchers with the Washington DC Veterans Affairs Medical Center, "Combat veterans often return from deployment having experienced a wide range of exposures, symptoms, and medical conditions. The Department of Veterans Affairs established war-related illness and injury study centers to serve combat veterans with unexplained illnesses. We report the exposures, clinical status, and utilization of 53 combat veterans who participated in the National Referral Program (NRP) from January 2002 until March 2004."
"Participants were primarily...
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