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  • Innovative technology enables surgeons to save lives

    Innovative technology enables surgeons to save lives

    Vascular surgeons used an innovative new device to treat potentially fatal aortic aneurysms, changing the lives of Texas Veterans.

  • VA Leading the Way: The first pacemaker to groundbreaking surgeries

    VA Leading the Way: The first pacemaker to groundbreaking surgeries

    VA has a been leading the way, from the invention of the pacemaker to the Million Veteran program.

  • Houston VA lung cancer screening program saves lives

    Houston VA lung cancer screening program saves lives

    Less than two years in, an innovative lung cancer screening [...]

  • Connecting Veterans: Houston event unites over 1,000 Veterans

    Connecting Veterans: Houston event unites over 1,000 Veterans

    More than 1,000 Veterans gathered at a special event in Houston to connect with essential resources, jobs and support.

  • Veteran has gastric sleeve operation, a life-changing surgery

    Veteran has gastric sleeve operation, a life-changing surgery

    Veteran Byron Potier weighed almost 300 pounds and was tired and lethargic. He was the perfect candidate for gastric sleeve surgery.

  • Aiming for the Moon(shot): Lung cancer awareness

    Aiming for the Moon(shot): Lung cancer awareness

    Lung cancer affects almost 8,000 Veterans every year. VA and NASA come together to encourage Veterans to get screened.

  • Houston VA clinic: ALS Certified Treatment Center of Excellence 

    Houston VA clinic: ALS Certified Treatment Center of Excellence 

    Veterans in Houston’s ALS Clinic can get expert care from a full array of specialists all in one afternoon.

  • Gastrointestinal procedure lets Vietnam Veteran eat again

    Gastrointestinal procedure lets Vietnam Veteran eat again

    Veteran received gastrointestinal procedure after being diagnosed with achalasia, a muscle disorder in the esophagus.

  • Houston VA virtual reality grant program

    Houston VA virtual reality grant program

    Dr. Mackenzie Shanahan’s project enhances treatment of Veterans with irritable bowel syndrome using virtual reality.

  • Houston VA implants new cardiac device

    Houston VA implants new cardiac device

    Army Veteran, 70, was diagnosed with complex aortic arch disease. A Houston surgeon implanted a new cardiac device called the Thoraflex Hybrid Frozen Elephant Trunk.

  • New hope for ALS Veterans

    New hope for ALS Veterans

    Veterans with ALS will receive groundbreaking cell therapy as a treatment for the neurodegenerative disease.

  • Picking up speed with two pacemakers

    Picking up speed with two pacemakers

    An army Veteran received the second of two tiny leadless pacemakers implanted in his heart with first-of-its kind technology.

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Last updated December 3, 2024

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