Veteran's Health

URL of this page: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/veteranshealth.html

Latest News
• Judge Bars Military from Forced Anthrax Shots (10/28/2004, Reuters Health) - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_20918.html (*this news item will not be available after 11/27/2004)
• Nervous System Anomaly Seen in Gulf War Syndrome (10/20/2004, Reuters Health) - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_20761.html (*this news item will not be available after 11/19/2004)

Overviews
• Enrollment in VA's Health Care System (Dept. of Veterans Affairs) - http://www1.va.gov/elig/
• TRICARE: The Basics (TRICARE Management Activity) - http://www.tricare.osd.mil/factsheets/viewfactsheet.cfm?id=127

Clinical Trials
• ClinicalTrials.gov: Persian Gulf Syndrome (National Institutes of Health) - http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct/gui/action/FindCondition?ui=D018923&recruiting;=true
• TRICARE Beneficiaries Can Enter Clinical Trials for Cancer Prevention and Treatment through Department of Defense and National Cancer Institute Agreement (National Cancer Institute) - http://cis.nci.nih.gov/fact/1_13.htm

Specific Conditions
• Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses: Questions & Answers (Veterans Health Administration) - Links to PDF File - http://www1.va.gov/gulfwar/docs/GWIllnessesQandAsIB1041.pdf
• GulfLINK (Office of the Special Assistant for Gulf War Illnesses) - http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/
• Health Care and Assistance for U.S. Veterans of Operation Iraqi Freedom (Dept. of Veterans Affairs) - Links to PDF File - http://www1.va.gov/gulfwar/docs/IraqiFreedomMay21.pdf
• Specialized Care Program (SCP) (Dept. of Defense, Deployment Health Clinical Center) - http://www.pdhealth.mil/veterans/scp_program.asp
• VA Program for Veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) (Dept. of Veterans Affairs) - http://www.va.gov/pressrel/ptsdfs.htm
• Veterans: The War against Hepatitis C (American Liver Foundation) - http://www.liverfoundation.org/cgi-bin/dbs/articles.cgi?db=articles&uid;=default&ID;=1025&view;_records=1

Related Issues
• Depleted Uranium (DU) (Navy Environmental Health Center) - Links to PDF File - http://www-nehc.med.navy.mil/downloads/ep/Posters/DU.pdf
• How TRICARE Changes When a Military Sponsor Retires or Dies (TRICARE Management Activity) - http://www.tricare.osd.mil/factsheets/viewfactsheet.cfm?id=175
• Important Message about TRICARE and Medicare (TRICARE Management Activity) - http://www.tricare.osd.mil/TRI_Medicare.cfm
• Project 112 (Dept. of Defense, Deployment Health Support Directorate) - http://deploymentlink.osd.mil/current_issues/shad/shad_intro.shtml
• Soldier and Family Guide to Redeploying (Dept. of Defense, Deployment Health Clinical Center) - Links to PDF File - http://www.pdhealth.mil/library/downloads/RedeploymentFamilyTrifold.pdf
• VA Homeless Programs and Initiatives (Veterans Health Administration) - http://www1.va.gov/homeless/page.cfm?pg=2

Research
• Can Antibiotics Cure Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses? (American College of Physicians) - http://www.annals.org/cgi/content/full/141/2/I-12
• Gulf War Research: A Report to Veterans (Veterans Health Administration) - Links to PDF File - http://www1.va.gov/gulfwar/docs/Report2VetsGulfWarResearch03.pdf
  Also available in Spanish - http://www1.va.gov/gulfwar/docs/SpanishInfobulletin1042.pdf
• New Report Supports Association Between Agent Orange and One Form of Chronic Leukemia (National Academy of Sciences) - http://www4.nationalacademies.org/news.nsf/isbn/0309086167?OpenDocument

Directories
• Facilities Directory: Veterans Health Administration (Veterans Health Administration) - http://www1.va.gov/directory/guide/home.asp?isFlash=1

Organizations
• Dept. of Defense, Deployment Health Clinical Center - http://www.pdhealth.mil/
• Dept. of Veterans Affairs - http://www.va.gov/
• House Committee on Veterans' Affairs - http://veterans.house.gov/

Law and Policy
• Readjustment Counseling Service - Vet Center Eligibility (Dept. of Veterans Affairs) - http://www.va.gov/rcs/Eligibility.htm

Statistics
• Male Veterans with Co-Occurring Serious Mental Illness and a Substance Use Disorder (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) - http://www.oas.samhsa.gov/2k4/vetsDualDX/vetsDualDX.htm

Women
• Center for Women Veterans - http://www1.va.gov/womenvet/
• Counseling and Medical Treatment for the Aftereffects of Sexual Trauma (Dept. of Veterans Affairs) - http://www1.va.gov/WOMENVET/page.cfm?pg=23

You may also be interested in these MedlinePlus related pages:
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/posttraumaticstressdisorder.html
• Health System - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/healthsystem.html
• Population Groups - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/populationgroups.html

Page last updated: 10 November 2004
Topic last reviewed: 23 July 2004