Help For Damaged Warriors The New York Times For too long, scores of thousands of veterans afflicted with post-traumatic stress disorder have been denied proper treatment and much-needed help. The Obama administration has announced new regulations that will eliminate one of the main bureaucratic roadblocks to adequate treatment: the requirement that they document in painstaking, often impossible searches such events as a specific bomb blast or firefight to prove their disability (7/9).Pinching Ohio's AIDS Funding The [Cleveland] Plain Dealer With 5,000 people, most of them without jobs, climbing into the life raft for free anti-AIDS drugs and other assistance, the Ohio Department of Health had to do something to make sure that the sickest and poorest come first. Thus, the sobering announcement that, starting this month, people who earn at or above 500 percent of the federal poverty level -- about $54,000 for a single-person household -- will no longer be eligible for aid from the Ryan White program. Ohio's Ryan White program had leveraged mostly federal money for drug assistance, housing and even transportation for those with HIV and AIDS (7/11). Government Has Fitting Role In Fat Fight The Hartford Courant Obesity costs the nation $147 billion per year just in health care costs, half of which are paid for by you, me and every citizen through Medicare and Medicaid. Because of poor diet and obesity, today's children could be the first generation in the nation's history to live shorter lives than their parents did. Government has the right, responsibility, authority and now the political support to help stand up to the food companies and create policies that offer the country better nutrition conditions. This suggests a bright future (Kelly Brownell, 7/11).

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