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Traditionally, the military did little for departing troops except hand them discharge papers. But in recent years, it has enacted a mandatory program to…

Veterans with denied disability claims wait an average of four to five years for appeals hearings. The VA predicts the delay will get worse if Congress…

Transgender veterans hoping the veterans administration would cover their sex reassignment surgery were dealt a setback after the administration dropped...

Thousands of veterans have suffered combat injures that left them infertile. For the first time, the VA will pay for treatments to help them have…

A new study will test an unusual approach to treating symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder: injecting a local anesthetic into nerve tissue in the neck.

The VA is giving more some nurse practitioners more autonomy to treat patients, but not all of them will be free from physician oversight.

More than 13,000 American troops remain deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, and units continue to cycle in and out of the two nations as part of the…

Some vets question whether President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of Veterans Affairs -- a current VA Under Secretary -- will bring reforms to the agency.

An NPR investigation examines reasons why it's hard to bring new medical personnel into the VA, including a cumbersome hiring process.

The stores offer low prices for service members and retirees. But taxpayers pay more than a billion dollars a year to subsidize them.Military…