Wounded Warriors to Visit Army-Navy Game.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- The Philadelphia Council of the Navy League is hosting service men and women wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan at the Army/Navy Game on December 6 at Wachovia Stadium. Soldiers, sailors, Marines and their caregivers from Bethesda Naval, Walter Reed and Fort Meade...

Navy League Hosts Wounded Warriors at Army-Navy Game.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Members of the Armed Services wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan will be attending the Army/Navy Game on December 6 at Lincoln Financial Field as part of sponsorship activities of the Philadelphia Council of the Navy League. Soldiers, sailors, Marines and their caregivers...

Government IT Contractor Shows Force Is With Microsoft Dynamics NAV.
Force 3 chooses Microsoft ERP system to integrate its diverse operations and manage its rapidly growing business. REDMOND, Wash., Nov. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Microsoft Corp. today announced that Force 3 Inc., a leading IT solutions provider to the federal government and other organizations, has selected Microsoft Dynamics...

Moving up the charts: drug-resistant bug invades military, civilian hospitals.
A common bacterium is becoming more virulent and drug resistant in hospitals. The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) now ranks Acinetobacter baumannii on its list of "bad bugs" alongside two perennial chart toppers, vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. The reported cases of nasty A....

An Officer and a Lady: Canadian military nursing: more than 4,000 civilian nurses volunteered to serve their country in war.
This is the second of two excerpts from the book An Officer and a Lady: Canadian Military Nursing and the Second World War. Written by Cynthia Toman, the book was published by UBC Press in association with the Canadian War Museum in 2007 (ISBN 978-0774814478, hardcover $85.00; a paperback...

Military strives for better coordination of care.
WASHINGTON -- The medical care provided to soldiers and veterans is under the microscope because of recent events, according to experts who have suggested that better coordination of care may be the answer to well-publicized lapses. A single-payer system does not guarantee that there is not fragmentation,...

U.S. accidentally kills 9 civilians in Iraq raid.
Byline: Solomon Moore and Qais Mizher The New York Times BAGHDAD - U.S. forces said Sunday they had accidentally killed nine Iraqi civilians and wounded three in a strike aimed at militants of al-Qaeda of Mesopotamia south of Baghdad, acknowledging what appeared to be one of the...

Segs4Vets making mobility accessible.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] You see Segways nearly everywhere you look today. Police ride them through the streets of their cities. Security guards ride them through the malls. Tour groups ride them around monuments. Veterans ride them almost anywhere. Segways are two-wheeled vehicles that look like a...

Richmond's Wartime Hospitals.
Richmond's Wartime Hospitals. By Rebecca Barbour Calcutt. (Gretna, La.: Pelican Publishing Company, 2005. Pp. 224. $22.00, ISBN 978-1-58980-297-1.) This concise study of eighty-five military hospitals that served Confederate soldiers in the capital city is a welcome addition to a growing body of medical histories about the Civil...

Talk back.
Dear CE, When we have one of the most respected military hospitals giving our troops inadequate care, this is definitely not showing them how thankful we are for their service ["War Wounds," issue 21]. If this is how it is going to be, then we might as...