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Years after the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell”: how are we protecting transgender individuals in the military?

February 2, 2024 Discrimination, equality, gender-affirming care, LGBTQ, military, policy, transgender, VA, Veterans, Veterans Health Administration

Research continues to show that transgender individuals face worse mental health outcomes than their cisgender counterparts, including higher rates of suicide attempts and serious psychological

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VA Whole Health: The paradigm shift we’ve been waiting for

May 24, 2019 Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, VA, Veterans, Whole Health

“The job of medicine is not only to diagnose and treat disease,” said Tracy Gaudet, the executive director of the Veterans Health Administration, in her

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Post-operative outcomes in the VA improved in the last 15 years

November 4, 2016 A Matter of Health, ACS NSQIP, post-operative outcomes, VA, VASQIP, Veterans Health Administration

The Veterans Health Administration is the largest integrated health system in the US providing care for nearly 9 million veterans. In a recent past, the

From the Labs: a closer look at metastatic medulloblastoma