Category Archives: VA News

Having…or anticipating…challenges reconnecting with your kids? VA and DoD have created a free online course called Parenting for Service Members and Veterans, including areas you WILL recognize. Read the full story

Veterans will get a break on Small Business Administration loans beginning January 1, 2014. SBA is also charging zero fees on all loans of less than $150,000.

Flu is no common cold. Thousands die from it. Are you in a high risk group? Over 50? Diabetes? Read about it in this article and learn how to protect yourself and your family. Read the full story

What Thanksgiving Day is all about…thanks to the health care he has received at the VA…and his photography…Veteran Brian Fleming is a much happier person. He finds comfort in coming to the VA. Read the full story

It’s a good thing Larry Kerr finally decided to answer his phone, which had been ringing all morning. It was the VA, calling to tell him he had a life-threatening heart condition. Read the full story

VA is bringing health care closer to Veterans who don’t live in town. New technologies like telehealth and mobile clinics are increasing health care options for rural resident Veterans. Read the full story

VA researchers find that women Veterans with social support from their peers have better physical health. More than 3,600 women Veterans, Vietnam and OIF and OEF Veterans, were in the study. Read the full story

The Wade Park Domiciliary is a unique partnership between the Cleveland VA Medical Center and Volunteers of America of Greater Ohio, a marriage that may be the first of its kind in the entire country. Read the full story

Here’s a Veteran who quit smoking for ten years, then started again. A doctor herself, she knew she knew better and has now stopped…with VA’s help…forever. Read the full story