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Deported veterans struggle to access VA services, study finds
Historically, policies involving the deportation of veterans have not always been closely followed.
By Zamone Perez
Lawmakers debate women veterans’ access to VA reproductive health care
A fast-growing number of women veterans under the age of 45 are becoming eligible for VA benefits and healthcare, according to a 2019 study.
By Hannah Graf
Thank you, homefront heroes
I believe we are living in a moment where the superb teamwork and sacrifice displayed by the soldiers, sailors and airmen of the Doolittle Raid is paralleled by the heroic efforts of our medical community fighting the coronavirus.
By David Goldfein
COVID-19 shows why military health care shouldn’t be downsized
Military medicine has long been a critically valuable source of research, insight, training and skill for the nation and now is no different. Yet even as leaders turn to the military for manpower, medics, and expertise, the Defense Department is engineering a reduction of that system.
By Orville Wright and Col. Keith Zuegel (ret.)
Bungled 2017 Tricare contract transition largely the Defense Health Agency’s fault, report says
The Government Accountability Office said the Pentagon must make improvements as it plans for the next generation of Tricare contracts.
By Patricia Kime
Homicide detective probing veteran’s death following altercation with VA medical center police
The veteran, who was headed to the Kansas City VA Medical Center because he contracted an infection following hernia surgery, died in May 2018 after an altercation with VA police, who told him he was headed the wrong way in the parking lot.
By Diana Stancy
Can a new office make health records compatible in time?
The Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs have plans for a new office to facilitate cooperation in the roll out of their electronic health record systems.
By Jessie Bur
Veterans are committing suicide in VA parking lots: report
Nineteen suicides have occurred on VA campuses from October 2017 to November 2018 – seven of them in parking lots.
By Joshua Axelrod
How 3D printers are cutting down surgery times and helping vets get mobility back at VA hospitals
Some doctors are using the printers to replicate human organs and develop prosthetics.
By Natalie Gross
VA researchers named most influential people in health care by TIME magazine
VA researchers in Boston and California have been named to TIME magazine’s Health Care 50 list, which also includes Iraq veteran and Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth.
By Natalie Gross