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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 [...]

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: 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: 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: 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 [...]