{"id":437,"date":"2010-05-08T11:23:07","date_gmt":"2010-05-08T17:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/waiting.com\/blog\/?p=437"},"modified":"2010-05-08T11:23:07","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T17:23:07","slug":"president-obama-signs-veterans-traumatic-brain-injury-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waiting.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/president-obama-signs-veterans-traumatic-brain-injury-bill.html","title":{"rendered":"President Obama Signs Veterans Traumatic Brain Injury Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some say that &#8221; the signature wound&#8221; of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is traumatic brain injury (TBI), and last Wednesday\u00a0President Barack Obama took action to try to help veterans with that malady.<\/p><p>Obama signed\u00a0legislation into law that is trying to improve the kind of care military veterans receive for TBI.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.recordnet.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20100506\/A_NEWS\/5060332\/-1\/a_news05\">http:\/\/www.recordnet.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20100506\/A_NEWS\/5060332\/-1\/a_news05<\/a><\/p><p>The bipatisan law seeks\u00a0to develop guidelines\u00a0for better treatment and rehabilitation\u00a0of veterans with TBI, in that it establishes\u00a0a panel that will determine\u00a0what kind of job the Veterans Administration is doing when it\u00a0cares for veterans with brain injury.<\/p><p>\u00a0The panel will also make yearly\u00a0recommendations for VA improvements and set up a TBI education and training program for VA professionals.<\/p><p>The bill was sponsored by Rep. Jerry McNerney, D-Pleasonton,\u00a0who has been working\u00a0on the legislation since he went\u00a0 to Congress three\u00a0years ago to represent California&#8217;s Stockton and San Joanquin County.<\/p><p>War-zone blasts, gunfire and shrapnel in Iraq and Afghanistan are\u00a0driving up the number of brain injuries that soldiers are sustaining.\u00a0In 2000, the number of those with TBI was 10,963. 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