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  • Innovative heart technology revolutionizes Veteran care

    Innovative heart technology revolutionizes Veteran care

    The Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center in Houston uses the groundbreaking OmniaSecure defibrillation lead device, enhancing Veterans' lives with innovative heart care.

  • Army Veteran opens his heart

    Army Veteran opens his heart

    Army Veteran Keith McCarter has had three heart surgeries, but is now doing better than ever.

  • New heart procedure brings hope for Veterans

    New heart procedure brings hope for Veterans

    New heart procedure at VA Palo Alto offers safer, less invasive treatment for tricuspid regurgitation, providing hope for improved recovery for Veterans.

  • Matters of the heart: A pharmacogenomics (PGx) success story

    Matters of the heart: A pharmacogenomics (PGx) success story

    Discover how personalized medicine and pharmacogenomics testing helped Army Veteran Dariton Robinson manage his high cholesterol with fewer side effects.

  • VA Research Wrap Up: New findings on Veteran mortality, weight loss and heart failure

    VA Research Wrap Up: New findings on Veteran mortality, weight loss and heart failure

    VA Research recently published three News Briefs highlighting findings on Veteran mortality, weight loss and heart failure.

  • VA Research Wrap Up: New findings on RSV vaccines, heart disease and homelessness

    VA Research Wrap Up: New findings on RSV vaccines, heart disease and homelessness

    VA Research recently published findings on respiratory syncytial virus vaccines, a potential heart disease treatment, and health care for homeless Veterans.

  • Cardiology care with heart: Meet a VA nurse

    Cardiology care with heart: Meet a VA nurse

    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) knows that excellence in nursing is critical to the delivery of high-quality health care to our Veterans, so it’s unsurprising that we should find Ingra Wesbey, Registered Nurse (RN) elevating the standard of care each day at the Milwaukee VA Medical Center (VAMC).

  • Home-based heart care helps Veteran

    Home-based heart care helps Veteran

    Army Veteran George Dale credits VA’s home-based heart care for changing the course of his life

  • New Heart Care technology improves Veterans’ quality of life

    New Heart Care technology improves Veterans’ quality of life

    Houston VA became the first VA Medical Center to utilize new technology to improve the quality of life for Veterans with heart failure.

  • Tech support for a Veteran’s heart emergency  

    Tech support for a Veteran’s heart emergency  

    Houston VA nurses provide a lifeline for Louisiana Veteran in emergency with lifesaving on-the-spot support.

  • Honoring our notable minority Purple Heart recipients

    Honoring our notable minority Purple Heart recipients

    Every year on August 7, we observe Purple Heart Day to honor the brave men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces who have been injured or lost their lives in service to our country.

  • Healing with heart: What 100 Fisher Houses means to Veteran and military families

    Healing with heart: What 100 Fisher Houses means to Veteran and military families

    Since 1990, Fisher Houses have provided a comfortable home away from home—at no cost—for military and Veteran families whose loved ones are receiving medical care at military and VA medical centers.

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Last updated January 16, 2026

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