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VA to Increase Access to Safe and Effective Lung Screening Programs
WASHINGTON — Today, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced a new partnership to increase access to lung screening for Veterans.
Sponsored by the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation, the project brings together experts from within and outside VA to develop the VA-PALS Implementation Network (VA-Partnership to increase Access to Lung Screening). Its goal is to develop early-detection programs for lung cancer, a malignancy with an 80 percent cure rate when caught early...
Local Volunteer Engineers Working on Alternative PPE
Rick Avila, a local computer scientist, has utilized equipment at Tech Valley Center of Gravity for years. But his current project is an alternative to standard personal protective equipment (PPE).
“High levels of protection costs thousands of dollars,” said Avila, with Pandemic Virus Protection Systems.
That is what led Avila to recruit a number of former colleagues, friends and even his daughter Jennifer, to help develop a powered air purifying respirator (PAPR)...