The Ebola Epidemic and DOD’s Global Health Engagement
By September 2014, the most widespread epidemic of Ebola virus disease in history had claimed more than 1,427 lives in …
Veterans Affairs & Military Medicine
Health Care-acquired Infections (HAI): A New Threat Emergent
In January 2014, the transmission and infection rates for health care-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) – a difficult-to-treat bacterial …
VA Research: Spinal Cord Injury
About 273,000 Americans have a spinal cord injury or disorder (SCI/D) that significantly affects their lives, and the Department …
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has become the most prevalent medical diagnosis of this century and among veterans of past wars, …
VA Research: Diabetes
Diabetes – a chronic disease in which the body cannot produce or properly use the metabolic hormone insulin, resulting in …
VA Research: Post-deployment Health
The ways in which VA health care, and the research efforts that support it, are administered and delivered acknowledge that …
VA Airborne Hazards Research Gearing Up
The potential for deployment-related occupational and environmental exposures to cause health problems has been a subject of study for the …
VA Research: Cancer
From the start of the VA’s cancer research program – the organization’s first centrally funded research laboratory was established in …
VA Research: Interview With Dr. Timothy O’Leary
Timothy O’Leary, M.D., Ph.D., the Chief Research and Development Officer (CRADO) for the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), U.S. Department of …
Face and Hand Transplant Advances
When the first face transplantation surgery was performed in Paris, France, in 2005 on a female victim of a dog …