Amanda Mineer

VA Makes Progress in Reducing Claims Backlog

The Veteran Affairs Department will cross an important milestone soon. The agency announced recently that it expects to go below the 800,000 mark in its veteran disability benefits claim backlog soon.

PTSD Increases Heart Attack Risks for Vietnam Vets

For many veterans, the long-term health consequences of post-traumatic stress disorder are only now coming to light. According to new research, Vietnam veterans who suffered from Post-Traumatic ...

VA Steps up PTSD Awareness Efforts

In June, the Department of Veterans Affairs increased its efforts to educate veterans about the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. The month was marked as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder ...

Army Establishes Brain Tissue Repository to Study TBI

The Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences at Bethesda, Maryland is now the scene of the world’s first brain tissue depository that ...

Faster Processing of Online Disability Applications for Veterans

Soon, veterans who are applying for disability claims may find that their claims are processed much more speedily and efficiently. A new online processing tool released by the Department Of Veterans ...

Injured Veterans Benefit from Advancements in Artificial Limbs

The recent Boston Marathon attacks are believed to have resulted in several amputation injuries. However, for these victims, life with a prosthetic device is likely to be much easier, than has been ...

Review Explores Sexual Effects of Brain Injury

There has been very little research done into how people who have suffered a brain injury, like veterans injured during combat duty, deal with the effect of their brain injury on their sexuality and ...

Military Experimenting with Meditation to Treat PTSD

With several hundred thousand veterans now believed to suffer from post traumatic stress disorder in the United States, the military is experimenting with new ways to help reduce the intensity of the ...

Research Finds Soldiers with TBI Have Measurable Brain Abnormalities

Traumatic brain injury affecting veterans is a grave source of concern to California veteran’s benefits lawyers. New research into traumatic brain injury among veterans in Afghanistan and Iraq has ...

Too Many Veterans Don’t Live to Receive Benefits

Any California veterans benefits lawyer knows that processing of benefits claims can take months. Unfortunately, in too many cases, the delays are so long that the claim processing is completed only ...

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