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MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 2013
Volume 12 Issue 247
Santa Monica Daily Press
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Helping homeless veterans remains a challenge BY AMEERA BUTT Daily Press Staff Writer
CITYWIDE During a mental health summit organized by the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System last week, groups met to discuss what can be done to help homeless
veterans and their mental health needs. Santa Monica is home to many vets who have become homeless because of lack of treatment, inability to find a job after coming home from serving in war, and mental issues stemming from wartime experiences. On any given day, there are about 1,000
homeless veterans on the streets in the West Los Angeles area, which includes Santa Monica, according to 2011 numbers from the Greater Los Angeles Point in Time Count, said Michelle Wildy, chief of community care for the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System.
Local officials are trying to learn from past mistakes and continue to offer services for vets who have experienced wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam. The federal government also committed to ending homeSEE VETS PAGE 11
Doctors who tried experimental treatment resign ASSOCIATED PRESS SACRAMENTO, Calif. Two California neurosurgeons who infected brain-cancer patients with bowel bacteria in an effort to save their lives have resigned their positions at the University of California, Davis, after officials concluded their actions violated the school’s code of conduct. Dr. J. Paul Muizelaar and Dr. Rudolph J. Schrot told The Sacramento Bee they strongly disagree with the university’s findings but believe an appeal would be pointless. “I lost confidence, if you will, in the ability of the university administration to fairly handle it,” Schrot told the newspaper. The physicians had the permission of the three patients to try the injections, but university officials concluded they failed to get the required prior approval from either the school or the federal Food and Drug Administration for such an experimental treatment that had not been tested on animals. The three patients, two middle-aged women and a man, each had been diagnosed with glioblastoma, a highly malignant brain tumor. The doctors hoped that injecting the patients with live bowel bacteria would stimulate their immune systems and prolong their lives. The first patient died a little more than a month after the treatment, but the second lived for more than a year, giving the doctors hope that the treatment was working. When the third patient developed sepsis and died within two weeks, however, the SEE TREATMENT PAGE 12
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Brandon Wise brandonw@smdp.com Bob Seger tribute band Turn the Page kicks up the heat during the annual Endless Summer SOULstice festival on Main Street Sunday afternoon.
Millions spent on water-storage plan that leaks ELLIOT SPAGAT & MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press
MOORPARK, Calif. More than two decades ago, two water distributors came up with a tantalizing idea to increase reserves in
parched Southern California: Create an underground lake so vast it could hold enough to blanket Los Angeles — all 469 square miles — under a foot of water. The reservoir deep within the earth would be injected with water imported from the snowy Sierra Mountains and other dis-
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tant sources, which could be pumped back to the surface when needed to soak avocado and lemon groves and keep drinking fountains, espresso machines and toilets gurgling. SEE WATER PAGE 12
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