August is Immunization Awareness Month. Are you up-to-date with all of your vaccines? They protect you and your family. Make sure you’re up to date with shots you need and schedule the vaccinations you should get every year. Read the full story
The Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU) has launched a new way to notify Veteran and Small Businesses of news and information related to VA Acquisition programs.
Because 41% of all Veterans enrolled in the VA Health Care System live in geographically remote areas, VA has an Office of Rural Health dedicated to making sure they have access to quality care. Read the full story
In an effort to improve Veterans’ access to mental health care and perhaps lower the suicide rate among the Veteran population, VA hopes to provide 200,000 video conferencing consultations before the end of the year. Read the full story
Some Veterans will be hired temporarily this summer to help enroll other Veterans in My HealtheVet, VA’s Online Personal Health Record, where Vets can store health information, refill VA prescriptions online and much more. Read the full story
International Assistance Dog Week — Saluting hardworking dogs helping Veterans live more fulfilled lives. These dogs transform the lives of their Veteran partners, performing tasks the Veteran cannot do without assistance. Read the full story
Veterans who served in combat operations after 1998 are eligible for an extended period of eligibility for VA health care for cost free medical care for any condition related to your service in the Iraq/Afghanistan theatre. Read the full story
VA has numerous ways to help Vets. Many do not know our programs exist. You can help. Print out this story, put a few of them in your car, and hand them out when you meet a Vet, on the street, at church on Sunday, wherever. Read the full story
Women’s Health Research Network — designed to address important women’s health research questions. Example: heart disease — in a large VA study, there would not be enough women at one VA. The solution is banding together. Read the full story
VA, the largest provider of HIV care in the United States, will discuss how electronic health records have improved VA’s treatment of Veterans with HIV at the International AIDS Conference July 22-27 in Washington DC. Read the full story
