Research

It's important to continue to improve Veterans' access to a full range of treatments to continue to improve the quality of evidence that guides VA's approach to multimodal pain care.

VA’s Office of Research and Development has a new series: “VA Researchers Who Served.” The profiles explain the critical work VA researchers do for Veterans and recognize their military service.

Strength training and good nutrition can help prevent sarcopenia, which is the gradual drop in muscle mass, strength and function that comes with aging.

One VA researcher is studying on whether video-game-like apps can help improve cognitive health in older Veterans with traumatic brain injury.

TIME magazine has named Dr. Ann McKee, chief of neuropathology of the VA Boston Healthcare System, to its 2018 TIME 100, an annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Veterans with Type 2 diabetes and elevated triglycerides have an increased risk for cardiac events and may be eligible to participate in a new study that aims to reduce this risk. 

VA researchers studying the underlying issues, delivery of services and prevention of homelessness

TBI is often caused by a strong impact to the head or from an object penetrating the brain that may or may not result in a loss of consciousness.

One current study is investigating the role of daily concord grape juice consumption in treating symptoms of Gulf War Illness.

Evidence shows that medications commonly prescribed for sleep can increase the risk for adverse events like falls, hip fractures, cognitive impairment, motor vehicle crashes, drug dependence and withdrawal, and even death by overdose.

The study found that impairment in memory could not be explained by the number of symptomatic concussions an individual sustained over his/her lifetime and was, instead, driven largely by close exposure to a blast.

Who says therapy has to be complicated? Perhaps an effective tool for treatment and recovery could be something as simple as, say … a rocking chair.