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Reforms meant to streamline military health care for severely wounded service members have in many cases worsened the bureaucracy, causing duplication, confusion and turf battles, according to families, congressional overseers and advocates for veterans. After reports that troops recovering from catastrophic wounds at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and other facilities were getting lost in the military’s system, a high-profile commission recommended in 2007 that every severely wounded service member be assigned a federal recovery coordinator. This “single point of contact” was to cut red tape and shepherd the wounded through recovery and the transition back to military duty or civilian life. Read full article > >

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, who was bombed, beaten and repeatedly arrested in the fight for civil rights and hailed by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. for his courage and energy, has died. He was 89. Princeton Baptist Medical Center spokeswoman Jennifer Dodd confirmed he died at the Birmingham hospital Wednesday morning.. Read full article > >

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Most African Americans call a friend or relative instead of 911 when they have symptoms of a stroke, potentially delaying arrival at a hospital and access to life-saving treatment, according to a new study. The findings, published online Thursday in the journal Stroke, offer a clue for researchers seeking to understand the disparities in stroke treatment between blacks and whites. The findings have particular significance for predominantly black urban populations, researchers said. The study, by researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center, included interviews with stroke patients at Washington Hospital Center, the Washington region’s largest hospital. Read full article > >

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Ham the Astrochimp, as he came to be known, is named for the Holloman Aerospace Medical Center, the lab located on New Mexico’s Holloman Air Force Base that prepared him for his historic flight into space. Born and captured by trappers in Cameroon, Ham was one of 40 chimpanzees purchased by the Air Force and used to test flight equipment at Holloman. The Chosen One, Ham launched into space aboard the Mercury-Redstone rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, so engineers could test his vital signs. Upon his successful return, Ham spent 17 years living at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., and a second zoo in North Carolina before his death in 1983. On the morning of January 31, 1961, a 5-year-old chimpanzee named “Ham” ate a breakfast of baby cereal, condensed milk, vitamins, and half an egg. Then the playful 37-pound primate went out into the Cape Canaveral light and made aeronautic history: Aboard a NASA space capsule — and traveling almost 160 miles above the Earth — he became the first chimp in space. The launch’s success helped ratchet up even further the already-frantic contest for scientific supremacy between the U.S. and the Soviet Union — and briefly made Ham something of a star. Here, on the 50th anniversary of that momentous, 16-minute “headlong trip through outer space’s underbelly” (as Time magazine called the flight), LIFE.com presents rare and previous unpublished photographs taken before, during, and after Ham’s wild ride — pictures that capture an era when technology, politics, ideology, and propaganda converged in an era-defining struggle known as the Space Race. Read the full story — and view a gallery of photographs – at LIFE . H/T BoingBoing .

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Units created to care for the wounded after the Walter Reed Army Medical Center scandal struggle with staffing, training and too many medications, the Army inspector general said.

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Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has arrived safely at a Houston hospital, where she will undergo rehabilitative treatment. “I’m very pleased to bring the news that the transfer from the University Medical Center in Tucson to Memorial Hermann Hospital here…

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Doctors at the University Medical Center in Tucson may remove Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ breathing tube on Saturday, which will be the next major step in her recovery. Giffords has been able to breathe on her own, but her team of doctors left the tube in…

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A patient at Tucson’s University Medical Center has died after being refused a liver transplant due to budget cuts-the second person in the state to die while reportedly waiting for one of the transplants that were cut. Arizona stopped paying for…

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A week inside Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn revealed the challenges and the rewards of the frenetic, burdened emergency room system.

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