Lawmakers advance VA health care overhaul, medical marijuana research for vets
House lawmakers advanced plans to increase veterans’ access to private-sector doctors, expand caregiver stipends to more former military families and increase medical marijuana research for veterans care in a flurry of votes before the House Veterans’ Affairs...
VA and Small Business Administration Team up to Help Veteran Entrepreneurs
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is working with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) to provide education and support to Veterans with disabilities interested in self-employment. VA’s Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (VR&E) services...
VA Medical System Staggers as Chaos Engulfs Its Leadership
At first, it was one doctor quitting the tiny Ukiah Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic in Northern California. Then another left, and another, until of the five doctors there a year ago, only one remained. The Veterans Choice Act, passed by Congress amid scandalous...
Migration to Defense Health Agency to modernize Army medicine, surgeon general says
To help modernize the DoD’s medical community, the Army’s surgeon general, along with the other services, have been taking the necessary steps to migrate certain authorities and control from the military departments to the Defense Health Agency. In...