VA Research: Healing Brains and Bodies
It was a historic milestone, reported around the world, when it happened about a decade ago: Using the new investigational…
Craig Collins
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Legendary Coast Guard Cutters
Almost from the day the Coast Guard’s predecessor agency, the U.S. Revenue Marine, was created by law in 1790, its…
VA Research: Effective Treatments, Where Veterans Are
More than 20 years ago, Sheila Rauch, PhD, director of Mental Health Research at the Atlanta VA, began her career…
Rum War: The U.S. Coast Guard and Prohibition
On Jan. 17, 1920, the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, banning the manufacture, sale, and transport of alcoholic beverages, became…
Service – And Presence – In the Arctic [Coast Guard OUTLOOK® 2020-2021 Edition]
For as long as the United States has been an Arctic nation, the U.S. Coast Guard and its predecessors have…
IUU Fishing: The Leading Global Maritime Threat [Coast Guard OUTLOOK® 2020-2021 edition]
In late July of 2020, when the Ecuadorian Navy discovered a fleet of more than 200 Chinese-flagged fishing vessels in…
Robots on Water [Coast Guard OUTLOOK® 2020-2021 Edition]
The Coast Guard’s operational use of unmanned systems, begun in the air a few years ago, is accelerating. Six of…
The Joint Health Information Exchange
When the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs (DOD and VA) announced in the spring of 2020 that they had…
Combating COVID-19: The U.S. Military Goes to War Against the Novel Coronavirus
It was in late February 2020 that the first American military service member, a young soldier stationed at Camp Carroll…
VA Research: The VA National Precision Oncology Program
Even among medical professionals, it can be difficult to appreciate the speed at which the field of oncology – the …