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(USA Today) – A study by the Federal Institute of Medicine found that veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan may be suffering from the 20-year-old set of symptoms known as Gulf War [...]

(NBC News) – Nearly half of eligible ex-service members who served in Iraq or Afghanistan are snubbing free, federal health care they earned in uniform because many harbor ‘huge [...]

(WIHI-TV) – The Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Waisman Center is offering free complementary and alternative programs to veterans who served [...]

(AP) – Richard Ramsdell Jr. faces sentencing after pleading guilty to receiving Veterans Affairs disability benefits to which he wasn’t entitled. Read More >

(Stars and Stripes) – The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is using a digital Web-based system to process veterans’ disability claims, replacing its antiquated paper files in an [...]

(AP) – A new registry for veterans who were exposed to burn pits in Afghanistan and Iraq and how it will be used to try to determine if there is a link between the burn pits and long-term [...]

(Federal Times) – Inspectors say the most stubborn, chronic mistake made by Veterans Affairs Department claims examiners while trying to dig their way out of a growing backlog of cases is [...]

(American Legion) – The Departments of Veterans Affairs and Defense have improved the functionality of eBenefits, a joint self-service web portal that provides registered users with secure [...]

(Baltimore Sun) – Calling the failures at the US Department of Veterans Affairs in Baltimore ‘inexcusable,’ Maryland’s congressional leadership on Monday demanded the [...]

(Stars and Stripes) – If former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel can survive his nomination fight in the Senate, President Barack Obama’s second-term Cabinet will become the first to boast [...]