The Department of Veterans Affairs' top mental health official said Tuesday he made a poor choice of words when he sent his colleagues an e-mail about suicide data that started out with "Shh!" Complete Story...
A top-ranking official at the Department of Veterans Affairs defends the agency's treatment of disabled veterans and denies the agency has tried to cover up the number of veterans committing suicide.
Two Democratic senators on Tuesday called for the chief mental health official of the Veterans Affairs Department to resign, saying he tried to cover up the rising number of veteran suicides.
The Senate approved legislation Thursday that would increase veterans' benefits and establish pensions for Filipinos who served alongside Americans in World War II.
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs isn't doing enough to prevent suicide and provide adequate medical care for Americans who have served in the armed forces, a class-action lawsuit that goes to trial this week charges.
The number of homeless veterans has declined to just over 150,000, the government says.
Lawyers for two veterans groups asked a judge Monday to order the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to overhaul its health system, especially its mental health treatment, to meet growing demand from soldiers returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Veterans Affairs Department said Thursday its undersecretary responsible for benefits is leaving.
Strained by war, recently discharged veterans are having a harder time finding civilian jobs and are more likely to earn lower wages for years due partly to employer concerns about their mental health and overall skills, a government study says.
New Veterans Affairs Secretary James Peake pledged Thursday to trim more than five weeks off the time it now takes to get the first check to a war veteran who files a disability claim.
President Bush on Thursday released $3.7 billion in emergency money that Congress requested to care for veterans, including those returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
John McCain seems like a natural presidential pick for veterans in South Carolina, a decorated POW of the Vietnam War in a military-friendly state.
A Navy World War II veteran died, one day after returning home from a reunion softball game for U.S. and Japanese veterans in Hawaii.
Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton on Sunday renewed her pledge to ensure the United States fulfills its obligations to veterans.
Army veteran Craig Cournoyer left behind his community of 400 people on a South Dakota reservation, moving thousands of miles to learn how to fix moldy, broken down ventilation systems.
In a Nov. 7 story about homeless veterans, The Associated Press, relying on figures from the National Alliance to End Homelessness, gave an incorrect estimate of 495,400 veterans who were homeless at some point during 2006.
The United States should link veterans' education benefits to inflation, speed laboratory developments to the battlefield and guarantee soldiers' children will always receive inexpensive in-state tuition rates, Republican Mitt Romney said Monday in commemorating Veterans Day.
Presidential contender John Edwards is introducing a $400 million plan Monday to help veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, including those recently returned from combat in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Marking his fifth Veterans Day since the invasion of Iraq, President Bush honored U.S. troops past and present at a tearful ceremony Sunday for four Texans who died there.
Veterans make up one in four homeless people in the United States, though they are only 11 percent of the general adult population, according to a report to be released Thursday.
President Bush signed the Joshua Omvig suicide prevention bill on Monday, providing improved screening and treatment for at-risk veterans.
A Democratic senator on Saturday accused President Bush of "hollow talk" in support of U.S. troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, and said the Bush administration has not done nearly enough to provide veterans with the care they need.
Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson on Friday proposed a $15.5 billion plan for military veterans that calls for cutting their income taxes, giving them a health care card to access private care and expanding education benefits.
Congressional Democrats are responsible for big spending boosts for America's veterans, but their power play move to link them to budget increases for health and education had Republicans crying foul on Friday.
The Bush administration announced preliminary steps Wednesday to improve treatment for wounded veterans with the hiring of staff to coordinate care between the Pentagon and Veterans Affairs Department.
I am very excited about this coming campaign - if DoD delivers on the promise above, it has the potential to be a tectonic shift in how men and women in the ranks view post-traumatic stress.
The organization "Operation: A Bit of Home" is encouraging people to send their unwanted DVDs to troops stationed overseas. With the help of "Operation: A Bit of Home," troops in Iraq now have their own DVD lending library.
The Department of Veterans Affairs is encouraging more Americans to join its corps of 85,000 volunteers. The volunteers are involved in helping VA medical staff in hospices, outpatient clinics and home-based programs.
2001 Economics Nobel Laureate and former World Bank Chief economist Professor Joseph Stiglitz (Columbia University, New York) says that America has bankrupted itself by the $3 trillion accrual cost Iraq War.
The number of suicides among veterans of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan may exceed the combat death toll because of inadequate mental health care, the U.S. government's top psychiatric researcher said.
A military psychologist suggests making troops suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder eligible for the Purple Heart to help remove the stigma of a disorder affecting about 20 percent of combat veterans.
Two years after a rocket-propelled grenade hit Nathan Toews during an ambush in southern Afghanistan, sending shrapnel shooting into his skull and spiderwebbing through his brain, he has recovered enough to ask: What now?
New emails have surfaced in a San Francisco court revealing that statistics related to an epidemic of veterans' suicides was explicitly withheld from the public and from CBS News.
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary James B. Peake and U.S. Housing and Urban Development Deputy Secretary Roy A. Bernardi today announced $75 million to provide permanent supportive housing for an estimated 10,000 homeless veterans nationwide.
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April 24, 2008 - MSNBC Keith Olbermann COVER UP! U.S. VETERANS SUICIDE RATE HIT 1000 PER MONTH!
In a stunning admission, top officials at the Veterans Health Administration confirmed that the agency's own statistics show that an average of 126 veterans per week -- 6,552 veterans per year -- commit suicide, according to an internal email distributed to several VA officials …
Sixty-two years ago, Congress voted to withhold veterans benefits from hundreds of thousands of Filipino soldiers who fought in World War II. David Vitter (R-La) was the only Senator to vote against giving benefits to brave Filipinos we drafted during World War II.
U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold wants the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to better track veteran suicides. The Wisconsin Democrat and Sen.
Ron Paul is the only candidate and one of the few in Washington that has been warning this country about what it is facing, yet few listen.
CANANDAIGUA, N.Y. — Nancy Nosewicz was busy fielding calls at the new national veterans hot line on a recent afternoon when someone from the Department of Veterans Affairs in Topeka, Kan., phoned.
HEY! (shaking you, dear reader)
A major scientific study into the families of soldiers used as guinea pigs in Britain's first nuclear tests shows they will suffer acute health problems for TWENTY generations.
A GROUP of veterans insist they have been wrongly denied repatriation benefits because the Howard government refused to believe they were involved in a 1952 nuclear test. Now they have photographs they say prove they were there.
In a stunning admission, top officials at the Veterans Health Administration confirmed that the agency's own statistics show that an average of 126 veterans per week —6,552 veterans per year—commit suicide, according to an internal email distributed to several VA officials.
Nancy Nosewicz was busy fielding calls at the new national veterans' hotline on a recent afternoon when someone from the Veterans Administration in Topeka, Kan., phoned.
Taking the offensive against skyrocketing consumer debt, Bills.com is launching "Operation Debt Storm" to assist military families in severe debt hardship, and, according to co-CEO Brad Stroh, help them "completely annihilate debt" in their lives.
IVAW members seized the National Archives Building on March 19th, 2008 in front of hundreds of surprised museum visitors. Response from visitors including teachers, students, vacationers was highly positive, though there were a few horrified faces in the crowd.
Nearly one in five veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is currently suffering from depression or stress disorders, according to the latest and most comprehensive study of current and former military service members, released today.