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He ended up at a VA Medical Center in Gainesville seeking a voluntary stay for mental health treatment. Instead, he was involuntarily held under Florida’s Baker Act. Six months later, he killed himself.

The VA says there isn't a hiring freeze, although federal data shows the agency has been dealing with "severe shortages" of nurses for years. Nurses in Tampa say they're feeling the strain.

A variety of health problems have been linked to contaminated water on the North Carolina Marine Corps base between 1953 and 1987.

The comedian wants to close a loophole in the PACT Act that leaves out some first-responding troops deployed to a former Soviet base near Afghanistan that was contaminated with high levels of uranium.

Spouses of former military members are now fifth in the priority list to be admitted to one of the state's nine veterans' care facilities. Eight are skilled nursing facilities and one is an assisted living facility.

For hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops and their families, when the Pentagon orders them to find health care off base there is none.

About 888,000 veterans and survivors in all 50 states received disability benefits under the 2022 law, which helps them get key benefits as a result of burn pit or other toxic exposure during their service.

The clinic shares space with a MacDill Air Force Base health center, part of a growing partnership between the Defense Department and Veterans Affairs.

The VA pays for IVF treatment for unmarried and LGBTQ veterans. But they must prove their fertility problems are service-related.

The VA has long given veterans who served in Vietnam disability compensation for illness connected to Agent Orange. But those exposed at U.S. bases are still waiting for the same benefits.