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VA’s Gulf War Veterans’ Illnesses Task Force issued its final report, which details how VA will improve medical care and services for Veterans of the 1990-1991 Gulf War. You can read the full release at http://www.va.gov/Final20GWVI_TFReport.… Read More

Some 270,000 Vietnam veterans — more than one-quarter of the 1 million receiving disability checks — are getting compensation for type 2 diabetes, making it the most frequently compensated disability among the war’s veterans. If you are a V… Read More

The Agent Orange Act of 1991, which directs VA to establish presumptions of service connection for any disease discussed in the Institute of Medicine’s biennial reports to VA for which the evidence shows a positive association. The institute’s mo… Read More

Veterans who are returning from the war in Iraq and Afganistan are reporting hearing loss and tinnitus at very high rates. Several soldiers have ringing in their ears from being near bombs going off, gun shots, or riding in tanks. A damaging noise is… Read More

Almost one-third of veterans returning from Iraq or Afghanistan who received health care at Veteran Affairs facilities between 2001 and 2005 were given a mental health or psycho social diagnosis, according to a report in the March 12, 2007, issue of… Read More