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Steve Kriner of the Olean VA delivers a COVID-19 vaccine to 100-year-old veteran Joseph Brunacini of Jamestown at American Legion Herman Kent Post 777 on Sunday.
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Hundreds of veterans from around the Southern Tier visited American Legion Herman Kent Post 777 on Jackson Avenue Sunday to receive their COVID-19 vaccines.
The clinic was the largest rural outreach program that the United States Department of Veterans Affairs has undertaken thus far, with 800 doses of the Pfizer vaccine on site for distribution.
“You can see it here, it is a pretty well-oiled machine where they are only on site for 20 minutes, 25 minutes tops,” said Sean Lindstrom, COVID-19 vaccine coordinator for the VA Western New York Health System. “We are able to flip these veterans through very quickly and receive a high number of patients through. What we heard on Friday was that this was going to be the largest rural outreach that the VA has ever done. Not
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Feb 25, 2021 12:39 PM EST
COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO)– The United States Department of Veterans Affairs is trying to get more COVID-19 vaccines to rural areas. V.A. officials spoke at a Senate hearing Wednesday. They say the department is flying doses to areas in Montana, Alaska and Oregon.
Here in South Carolina, the Columbia V.A. Health Care System hosted an event earlier this month to vaccinate more than 1,000 local veterans. Officials are planning to have another mass vaccination event at Colonial Life Arena next month.
Veterans Affairs (VA) Signs Agreement with Theranica to Make Nerivio® Acute Migraine Therapeutic Device Available to Veterans
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MONTCLAIR, N.J., Feb. 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Theranica, a prescribed digital therapeutics company developing advanced electroceuticals for migraine and other pain conditions, today announced it has signed a Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) agreement with the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), that will enable Veterans access to Nerivio®, a wearable for acute treatment of migraine. Nerivio has shown clinical efficacy for episodic and chronic migraine, both in clinical trials and real-world evidence analyses, said Jason Sico, MD, Associate Professor of Neurology and Internal Medicine in Yale School of Medicine. Providing headache care to both Veterans and non-Veterans, it has been my experience that Veterans tend to live with migraine and related headache disorder