VA health researchers receive 90 days

And it's not over yet. According to a memo that was spread between the agency heads and previously reported by USA Today, the VA plans to take at least 76,000 other employees, which could destroy the fear of the legislator and supporter of the agency that had already been briefly occupied.

The VA frees 300,000 positions from freezing, including direct supervisors, and said that “business -critical” positions and contracts in the layoffs were not wiped out.

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However, the chaos has already affected the double research dates of the VA, a key system for medical research that affects the fear among scientists – and not just for veterans.

For decades, the VA has shown doctors, professors and researchers from external institutions to carry out temporary studies and clinical studies through double appointments, to make an “inexpensive” opportunity for VA, according to Elizabeth Stout from the National Association of Veterans' Research and Education Foundation.

The congress reported 984 million US dollars for more than 7,270 active VA research projects last year. More than 3,680 main researchers at 102 research locations work on the programs. Many of these scientists have “without compensation” appointments, which means that VA receives access to its work without paying for it – although technically speaking are still federal employees.

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Even these employees were caught in the attitudes, which also included federal dates. It remains unclear whether the expansion of the VA will restore researchers or interrupted studies.

Rashi Romanoff, Chief Executive Officer from Navref, said that the “fate” of researchers who have already been dismissed was uncertain. “In the VA research community, there was a position to maintain critical veteran research initiatives,” she said.

“No conclusion to be picked up”

In its centuries-long history, the research financing of the VA has led to a long series of scientific first, from pacemakers to cat scan. VA researchers are behind important medical studies and technologies that affect veterans, but also the wider public, including prosthetics, PTSD and cancer.

“What is needed is why military service increases the risk of increased,” said Kuldip Dave, Senior Vice President for Research at the Association. As or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a serious disease of the nervous system, the US veterans are moving 1.5 times more often than the general population. Why is unknown.

“Veterans could be a smaller population that can be examined, but what we find out could be effective for all patients,” he said.

More than 60% of VA researchers are also clinicians. Dave said that gives them the unique ability to use their patients in the laboratory what they learn in the laboratory.

“This is the only organization whose focus is on researching the research on veteran needs,” he said.

“It's not like that: 'Oh, if you cut VA employees, the gap will be picked up by someone else.' There is no gap that has to be picked up.