The bills range from establishing studies on exposure to liver flukes in Vietnam veterans later diagnosed with bile duct cancer to prioritizing the delivery of survivors’ benefits for family members of deceased veterans.

Defense Department civilian employees and contractors abroad can no longer get rape test kits done at military medical facilities.

Fatal and nonfatal drug overdoses among troops dropped by more than 40% over a two-year span, the DOD said.

Primary care teams at Hampton VA Medical Center in Virginia are operating above capacity as they work to keep up with growing veteran enrollment — leaving staff overburdened and struggling with burnout, according to a recent federal watchdog report.

Health care providers serving veterans and their families across Virginia say they are missing thousands of dollars due to Tricare insurance reimbursements being stalled for months. It is apparently the result of a change to Tricare’s billing system that requires licensed counselors to meet a series of new requirements for their claims to be reimbursed.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has been closely intertwined with academic medicine and research since just after World War II, when innovative partnerships were developed to treat the influx of injured soldiers returning from the war. But researchers and administrators around the country are now dealing with “unintended consequences” of a federal hiring freeze, which has left some studies unable to proceed without essential personnel.

Pentagon programs that are delayed and over budget by 15% or more could be cut, according to an executive order signed by President Donald Trump.

New Defense Department efforts to improve health care access for civilian employees in Japan and Guam are underway, but it’s too soon to tell whether they’re working, according to a federal watchdog.

Veterans groups urged the Department of Veterans Affairs to take steps to end common mistakes in claims reviews for disability that include redundant requests more medical exams when the clinical diagnoses already are in veterans’ records.

Dave Crete, a former Air Force sergeant at a Nevada installation where nuclear bombs were tested, developed tumors in his brain and throughout his body years after he worked as a military police officer at the facility in the 1980s.