We know that many vets struggle with unemployment and find that the transition to civilian life is difficult. So it’s troubling that there continues to be problems with VA Mental Health Care facilities.

Health professionals without military experience or knowledge of military culture have a much harder time building rapport and trust with their veteran patients.

My first interaction with Post Traumatic Stress (PTSD) and veterans was as a mental health clinician working in a locked facility for the severely mentally ill in California.

With so many servicemen and women veterans continually returning from such places as Afghanistan and Iraq, there continues to be an increased need for mental health care for this population.

A new state-of-the-art facility to treat veterans and service members with multiple, traumatic injuries opened at the South Texas Veterans Health Care System (STVHCS) in San Antonio last month.

Success at VA hospitals in fighting the deadly bacterial infection methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) may have significant implications for the private sector.

One month ago, 28-year-old ex-Marine and Iraq veteran Clay Hunt committed suicide in his Houston apartment. He was known as a leading advocate fighting the prevalence of suicide among veterans.

Did you know that March is National Nutrition Month? There are so many things keeping military families busy; PCS, deployment, single parenting – shouldn’t keeping healthy be on this list?

Change is good, but not everyone likes it. Many individuals fear change and the thought of beginning a new life in a new environment scares the heck out of them. So how do you overcome the fear of change?

Almost everyone has back pain at some point in his or her lives. According to the National Institutes of Health, back pain is the second most common neurological disorder in the United States—only headache is more common.   If you have back pain, the first step is to be properly assessed by your primary care [...]