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NextGov – A team of doctors at the Veterans Affairs Department is pioneering new ways to use 3D-printing to plan surgeries, assist amputees and—maybe one day—build bones and organs from [...]

Government Executive – The Veterans Affairs Department’s watchdog is investigating a new office created by President Trump early in his administration that was designed to protect [...]

Military Times – Tens of thousands of family caregivers across the country provide daily assistance to wounded veterans, but advocates say the federal government is just now on the verge of [...]

National Constitution Center – How did a Vietnam War veteran’s request for disability benefits turn into one of the key Supreme Court cases of this term, one with major implications for the [...]

Military.com – The acting deputy secretary at the Department of Veterans Affairs has been nominated to fill the position permanently, ending a 10-month stretch without a permanent official [...]

UPI – Here’s bad news for some women in the military: An increased risk of minor birth defects was found among U.S. female veterans of the 1990-91 Gulf War. Read More >

Military.com – A National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine panel has launched a study on the respiratory effects of burn pits and other pollution encountered by U.S. troops [...]

Stars and Stripes – A group of lawmakers introduced legislation that would add nine more diseases to a list of conditions presumed to be caused by the chemical herbicide Agent Orange, [...]

Military Times – The fate of disability benefits for “blue water” Vietnam veterans will be among the key topics lawmakers tackle when they return from their district break at the end of the [...]

Task and Purpose – Personnel at Andersen Air Force Base in Guam had been consuming drinking water that had been sanitized with chlorination tablets typically used in swimming pools, an Air [...]