Panel Sees No Clear Aid for Veterans Under Stress
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An expert panel said Thursday that it was unclear which treatments could help combat veterans who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Concerned that Congress is moving toward providing a 2.2 percent pay raise for the military next year, a leading veterans' group said that with troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, this is not the time to skimp on a raise.
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The Veterans Administration and its benefits programs need to be streamlined, a Congressional panel was told.
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A new study reveals that 1/3rd of returning veterans have a diagnosed mental illness, and young soldiers are paticularly vulnerable
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WASHINGTON -- Many Iraq war soldiers, veterans and their families are not getting needed psychological help because a stressed military's mental health system is overwhelmed and understaffed, a task force of psychologists found.
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RICHMOND, Aug. 30 -- The communications breakdowns, gaps in the mental health system and confusion over student privacy laws that were identified as problems by the panel that investigated the massacre at Virginia Tech might take years to correct and require action by the federal government, panel...
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Nearly 1.7 million military veterans have no health insurance or access to government hospitals and clinics for veterans, according to a doctors' group that favors federally financed health care.
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The Veterans Affairs Department said Friday that it no longer will pay for studies that seek to show stress is the primary cause of mysterious ailments afflicting thousands of veterans of the 1991 Gulf War.
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Virginia lacks experienced psychiatrists to evaluate the mentally ill, there aren't enough beds for those seeking emergency treatment in many areas and hospitals are losing money on mentally ill patients, according to a state government report.
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Many U.S. combat veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan are clearly suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder but it is not at all clear which treatments work to help them, an Institute of Medicine panel said on Thursday.
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Medical experts and U.S. senators accused the Pentagon and Veterans Affairs Department on Tuesday of failing to take seriously illnesses suffered by U.S. 1991 Gulf War veterans and doing too little to help them.
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The U.S. Army will start training all soldiers on Wednesday to recognize signs of post-traumatic stress and seek help when needed, but it still lacks the mental health resources to treat those troops.
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The Veterans Affairs' system for handling disability claims is strained to its limit, and the Bush administration's current efforts to relieve backlogs won't be enough to serve veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, investigators said Tuesday.
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A federal panel that has spent two years reviewing studies of Gulf War illnesses recommends focusing future research on the effects of the toxic substances that veterans encountered during the 1991 conflict.
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Troops deployed during the 1990-1991   Gulf War get sicker than most other veterans, but a panel of   experts looking for evidence of a suspected Gulf War Syndrome   said on Wednesday they could not find it.
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Thousands of U.S. troops with physical injuries and mental health problems are encountering a benefits system that is already overburdened.
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The National Guard and Reserves don't get enough money or equipment and are left out of important planning for national emergencies, an independent panel concluded Thursday, long after the Iraq war and Hurricane Katrina exposed serious stresses on the services.