Traumatic Brain Injury Bill Calls for Sweeping Changes in Military Health Care, Training, Safety to Protect Troops The 46-page bill comes amid growing evidence that troops are at risk of exposure to potentially dangerous blasts not just...
Medical Beard Waivers Nearly Double in Air Force and Space Force in Just 3 Years Between 2021 and 2023, the number of active-duty airmen with shaving waivers due to pseudofolliculitis barbae, a skin...
Georgia Veterans Are Healing Through Therapeutic Writing Published last year and in 2018, a pair of studies concluded written exposure therapy for U.S. military veterans with PTSD is...
An Introduction to 'Intuitive Eating' and a Better Relationship with Food Maybe instead of thinking about our food options as "good" or "bad" and feeling the guilt associated with "cheating on the...
More Specialty Drugs Cost Less with New Pharmacy's Addition to Tricare Home Delivery Tricare beneficiaries with prescriptions for specialty drugs can now get more of them at the lower copays of Tricare Home...
EPA's Integrity Is Questioned for Withholding Red Hill Tests Members of the CRI expressed frustration that EPA is sharing information about the testing after a community meeting last...
Pentagon Policy Paying Travel Costs for Abortions, Other Health Care Was Used Only 12 Times from June to December Paying for transportation, lodging and meals for those 12 round trips from a service member's home station to the location of...
Medical Care Shortfalls for US Personnel in Japan Trigger Push from Lawmakers for Improvements A bipartisan group of senators and a representative said that issues with access to care continue despite efforts to improve...
Red Hill Board Accuses Navy of Backing Off Transparency Vow Members of the CRI say the Navy officials are upset with how meetings have gone and are trying to change the rules to muzzle...
Residents Near 8 Military Bases to Be Tested for Chemical Tied to Cancer The sites, near former and active bases, have high levels of compounds used in firefighting foam.
The Army Has Officially Deployed Laser Weapons Overseas to Combat Enemy Drones A pair of laser weapons has been deployed by the Army to an undisclosed location overseas to blast incoming enemy drones out...
Fired After 6 Months: Army Sacks Commander of Germany Unit Meant to Bolster NATO Against Russia Lt. Col. Eric Ackles, commander of 1st Battalion, 57th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, was relieved of command, the service...
Toxic Exposure Screenings: Vets Report Spotty Follow-Up on Questionnaire Meant to Boost Health Care and Benefits Rolled out with great fanfare in November 2022, toxic exposure screenings for all VA patients were mandated by the PACT Act...
Feds Settle Case for $2 Million After Skydiving Plane Took Out Marine Corps Osprey on Runway Nearly four years after a civilian skydiving aircraft collided with a Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey sitting on a San Diego runway...
Reports of Mediocre Disability Exams by VA Contractors Prompts Senator's Demand for Answers A prominent Democratic senator is demanding the Department of Veterans Affairs review the quality of its privatized...