Michelle Ford had newborn twins and a husband severely wounded in Afghanistan when she got the offer to move into a group home on the campus of Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Living with other families made her apprehensive, but she agreed. It turned out to be a wise decision. While the rest of Washington is wrapped up in its holiday hustle, the Ford family is finding the homey atmosphere and camaraderie of Fisher House to be a salve and a source of support as husband Derrick recovers from... Read Full Story
President Barack Obama spent nearly two hours visiting wounded U.S. soldiers Friday afternoon. The president met with 19 soldiers being treated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, as well as the families of three soldiers in intensive care, and hospital staff. He also awarded two Purple Hearts. The president's visit came a day after an Army psychiatrist who once trained at Walter Reed hospital allegedly killed 13 people at Fort Hood. The White House says the hospital visit was planned before... Read Full Story
WASHINGTON - Doctors from Walter Reed Army Medical Center here and the University of Miami collaborated to perform the first pancreas islet cell transplant Thanksgiving Day on an airman whose pancreas was injured so severely in Afghanistan that it had to be removed.
While serving with an Army unit in Afghanistan, 21-year-old Air Force Senior Airman Tre Porfirio was shot three times in the back by an insurgent Nov. 21. Seventy-two hours and 8,000 miles later, Porfirio was at Walter Reed with... Read Full Story
Date Published: Monday, November 30th, 2009
Another study of Medtronic Inc.’s Infuse Bone Graft product that involved soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center is coming under fire. According to a report in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Dr. Charles Rosen, president of the Association for Medical Ethics, has written a letter to the U.S. Army Surgeon General expressing concerns about the way the Medtronic Infuse study was conducted.
Infuse Bone Graft, which is manufactured... Read Full Story
Whew, I’m dizzy. Sometimes the room starts to spin when I read or watch the news, it’s from the spin they put on everything. From NPR : Starting in the spring of 2008, key officials from Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences held a series of meetings and conversations, in part about Maj. Nidal Hasan, the man accused of killing 13 people and wounding dozens of others last week during a shooting spree at Fort Hood. One of the questions they... Read Full Story
Last night thousands of viewers were puzzled over the mansion-like building in the backdrop of McCain’s speech. The image appeared on the backdrop for about five minutes, then faded into an American Flag.
Well, mystery solved – it was a picture of the Walter Reed Middle School in North Hollywood, California.
Now the next mystery is why was Walter Reed the backdrop for his speech anyway? Many people believe that an image of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center was supposed to be featured... Read Full Story
I was going to post today on a way to support the troops this Holiday Season . A retired Airforce friend of mine brought me over an address to Walter Reed Army Medical Center and suggested I post how folk could send Christmas cards and letters to the wounded Soldiers....... I thought it sounded like a great idea till I went to the Walter Reed Army Medical Center website and read that they do NOT accept these letters and cards . This is from the site : " Walter Reed Army Medical Center... Read Full Story
CHARLIE GIBSON: You said recently, in your old church, “Our national leaders are sending U.S. soldiers on a task that is from God.” Are we fighting a holy war?
SARAH PALIN: You know, I don’t know if that was my exact quote.
CHARLIE GIBSON: Exact words.
~ABC News Interview, Sept. 11, 2008
Ok, fine. Sarah Pork Barrel Palin is attractive, especially when she stands next to the dorks in politics. Still, when pretty people start spouting Christian dogma and run-on about creationism in... Read Full Story
Our date and time is finally confirmed. A small group of car loving wounded soldiers and veterans currently residing at Walter Reed Army Medical Center are coming for an early dinner outing visit to Maserati of Baltimore. With a special dinner prepared by Sweet Lela’s Market Cafe’s catering division, these brave souls will enjoy and evening outing sponsored by ORACLE and the Warriors In Transition program.
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Scheduled to arrive approximately at... Read Full Story
