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The president was in New Hampshire to discuss care for veterans suffering from toxic exposure, an issue that resonates for him personally and, his campaign hopes, politically. President Biden announced [...]

Veterans and their advocates describe continuously burning fires on overseas bases that consumed the military's trash and produced toxic smoke. On bases established for America's post-9/11 wars, the U.S. military's [...]

Byline: Lisa Rein WASHINGTON - Senate lawmakers Wednesday reached bipartisan agreement on legislation to expand health care and disability benefits to millions of veterans exposed to toxic chemicals during their [...]

Byline: Alex Horton WASHINGTON - Lawmakers flanked by veterans and comedian Jon Stewart on Tuesday announced legislation that would deliver care for veterans who developed health problems after they were [...]

Byline: Nikki Wentling WASHINGTON - Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie promised Thursday he's not stalling an effort to add four conditions to a list of diseases presumed to [...]

Officials administering the plan said they were unable to guarantee a network large enough to accommodate all the veterans who may seek care. WASHINGTON -- A health program for veterans [...]

Byline: Nikki Wentling WASHINGTON - Two lawmakers introduced legislation in the House and Senate on Wednesday that would require the Department of Veterans Affairs to offer hyperbaric oxygen therapy for [...]

Byline: Claudia Grisales This is the second part of a three-part series looking at the plight of veterans exposed to atomic radiation testing. The first part detailed the vast cover [...]

Byline: Ann E. MarimowA federal appeals court in Washington sided Tuesday with thousands of Vietnam War veterans who were stationed offshore during the war and developed health problems linked to [...]

WASHINGTON -- Lawmakers reached a deal late Thursday to stave off a painful shutdown of the multibillion-dollar Choice Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs. But the days-long standoff over [...]

Byline: E.B. Boyd A new federal report says the data from an existing registry of troops' downrange exposure to burn pits cannot be used to establish a link with health [...]

Byline: Tom Philpott VA Secretary David J. Shulkin used congressional testimony Tuesday and recent meetings with veterans' service organizations to preview new steps the Department of Veterans Affairs might test [...]

Byline: Nikki Wentling WASHINGTON - The Department of Veterans Affairs is preparing to give out an estimated $2.2 billion during the next five years to thousands of veterans suffering from [...]

Byline: Nikki Wentling WASHINGTON - An expected 15,000 veterans whose serious illnesses are linked to a contaminated water supply at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina could receive compensation more quickly [...]

Byline: Dianna Cahn A long-awaited report released Wednesday on the nation's troubled veterans' health care system recommends 18 'bold' changes, including creating a new network of public-private care providers, to [...]

Byline: Travis J. Tritten WASHINGTON - A proposal allowing doctors at the Department of Veterans Affairs to prescribe medical marijuana to veterans appeared close to becoming law until Congress removed [...]

Byline: Giles Bruce Hobart resident Carlos Villarreal squabbled with Veterans Affairs officials for months over getting an MRI to assess his nerve damage from a mortar attack in Iraq. He [...]

Byline: Travis J. Tritten WASHINGTON - Lawmakers lashed out Monday at Bob McDonald after the Department of Veterans Affairs secretary compared the time veterans wait for health care to the [...]

Byline: Travis J. Tritten WASHINGTON - A proposal to extend health coverage for Agent Orange exposure to Vietnam-era Navy veterans has the type of backing in Congress that normally would [...]

Byline: Travis J. Tritten WASHINGTON - Senators on Thursday renewed the call to lift a decades-old ban on the Department of Veterans Affairs providing in vitro fertilization to wounded veterans [...]

Byline: CHARLES ORNSTEIN and TERRY PARRIS JR.ProPublicaand MIKE HIXENBAUGHThe Virginian-Pilot During the Vietnam War, hundreds of U.S. Navy ships crossed into Vietnam's rivers or sent crew members ashore, possibly exposing [...]

Byline: Travis J. Tritten WASHINGTON - Asbestos poisoning is personal for Garry Hall, a retired admiral and national executive director of the Association of the United States Navy. Hall's father-in-law, [...]

Byline: Derek Hawkins On a winter morning in 1966, nuclear weapons fell from the sky over southeastern Spain. High above, an American B-52 bomber on a Cold War alert mission [...]

Byline: Shefali Luthra The military's health program falls significantly short in providing mental-health care to service members, according to a Rand study published last week. The study focuses on depression [...]

Byline: Travis J. Tritten WASHINGTON - Lawmakers in the House and Senate unveiled an agreement Monday to reform the troubled Department of Veterans Affairs by pumping $17 billion in emergency [...]

Byline: Ed O'Keefe WASHINGTON - A sweeping proposal to revamp the Department of Veterans Affairs and the nation's medical care for military veterans should have enough support to pass the [...]

Byline: MATTHEW DALY and ALAN FRAM WASHINGTON - United in response to a national uproar, Congress is suddenly moving quickly to address military veterans' long waits for care at VA [...]

Byline: Travis J. Tritten WASHINGTON - More than 57,000 veterans have been waiting more than three months for requested health care through the Department of Veterans Affairs, according to a [...]

Byline: ADRIAN MORROW VETERANS AFFAIRS The bureaucrats responsible for digging through veterans' advocate Sean Bruyea's medical files must be held accountable to stop such breaches of privacy from happening again, [...]

Lawmakers are working with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to integrate it into a prescription drug monitoring program, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D- Ohio) said Tuesday morning. Brown is expected [...]

Byline: MICHAEL MacDONALD; The Canadian Press HALIFAX -- Defence Minister Peter MacKay rolled out a $21-million plan yesterday for a new network of military support centres, responding to reports that [...]

Byline: Gregg Zoroya WASHINGTON -- The military has launched a detective effort to find at least 2,300 veterans wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan to see how they are faring, and [...]

December 20, 1993 I am deeply concerned about the reports of health problems afflicting a number of our Persian Gulf veterans. The legislation I am signing today, H.R. 2535, addresses [...]