Pentagon's Top Doc Defends Military Health System Budget, Lays Out Plans for Improvements Retired Navy officer and military spouse Dr. Steve Ferrara serves as acting assistant secretary of defense for health affairs...
Defense Health Agency Director Ends 32-Year Career with Unceremonious, Abrupt Retirement Lt. Gen. Telita Crosland was the first Black woman and family practice physician to lead the 12-year-old agency.
Army Doctor Files Guilty Plea in 41 Cases of Sexual Contact, Indecent Behavior with Patients The physician, an anesthesiologist, was accused of fondling patients at a Washington state military hospital between 2019 and...
VA Doctor Found Guilty of Sexually Assaulting Patient at Georgia Facility The primary care doctor, Rajesh Motibhai Patel, had been accused of fondling and sexually assaulting four women during...
Tricare Dental Premiums Decrease Modestly Through February 2025 Tricare Dental Program premiums have decreased by about $1-$3 a month depending on the plan. The new premium rates extend...
Military Trauma Training on Live Pigs, Goats Sparks New Lawsuit Seeking Details A group of physicians who advocate for humane treatment of animals has sued the Defense Department for documents on medical...
'No Hesitation': Vietnam's Lifesaving 'Dustoff' Medevac Crews to Get Congressional Gold Medal To honor those who flew more than 496,000 Army medevac missions from May 1962 through March 1973, the House last week passed...
Military Medical Commands Developing Plans to Put Freeze-Dried Plasma in Hands of Medics, Corpsmen Carried by special operations troops for more than 10 years, freeze-dried plasma is making its way to the services' medical...
Officers with Higher Rank Get Better Care than Those with Lower Ranks at Military Hospitals, Study Finds A look at 1.5 million emergency room visits in the military health system shows that, in addition to racial bias, disparities...
Newly Approved Rapid Blood Test for Traumatic Brain Injury Could Speed Up Treatment for Troops The diagnostic test was developed by Abbott Laboratories and an arm of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command...
Supreme Court Upholds VA Court Decision Not to Review 'Benefit-of-the-Doubt' Evidence in Veterans' Claims In a 7-2 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court said last week that, while the Department of Veterans Affairs should favor veterans...
The Medal of Honor Fraud Case that Took Stolen Valor to the Extreme H.L.I. Lordship Industries of Long Island, New York, admitted to selling unauthorized versions of the Medal of Honor, the...
The Army Is Losing Nearly One-Quarter of Soldiers in the First 2 Years of Enlistment The Army is grappling with a staggering attrition rate among newly enlisted troops, even as recent recruiting figures suggest...
5 Reasons Veterans Are Especially Hard-Hit by Federal Cuts For the past month, the Trump administration has been cutting federal spending, causing numerous hardships for government...
Court-Martial Convenes for Pentagon Leaker Already Facing Years Behind Bars A military court-martial convened for Massachusetts Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira, who was sentenced in federal...
