Veterans Affairs

The legislation will help veterans get disability payments without having to prove their illness was the result of their service. Other health care services will be expanded as well.

The legislation expands access to care through the VA for millions who served near burn pits. It also directs the VA to presume that certain respiratory illnesses and cancers were related to burn pits without proof.

Knowing not all veterans addicted to drugs are ready to quit, VA doctors are offering clean supplies, mental health care and other services to reduce some of the risks that come with injection drug use.

The more than $16 billion, decadelong effort by the Department of Veterans Affairs was designed to provide seamless electronic health records for patients from enlistment in the military past discharge.

Though soaked in fuel and on fire, Sgt. 1st Class Alwyn C. Cashe returned repeatedly to his burning vehicle to rescue fellow soldiers after a 2005 IED attack in Iraq. He later died.

The sweeping makeover of the VA's health care system would affect dozens of hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, and other facilities.

Veterans suffering from certain medical conditions became eligible for "presumptive" VA disability benefits last year. But the claims they're filing have added to the agency's huge backlog.

The 130,000-square-foot outpatient clinic will serve veterans with primary care, mental health services, radiology and labs onsite.

With new research released last year, Congress mandated a pilot program that will pay to train service dogs and place them in veterans' homes.

The Department of Veterans Affairs said its frontline health workers must get vaccinated by mid-September or they'll lose their jobs.