At VA San Diego, Dr. Albert Leung is leading a trial of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation to treat persistent headaches. Such headaches are often seen in military personnel with concussions.
Receiving an updated COVID-19 vaccine increases the immune response, which improves protection from becoming seriously ill from COVID-19.
Have you ever woken up with a crook in your neck? Is poor posture or stress causing your head to pound? Before you take a pill, consider trying this four-minute acupressure practice for head and neck relief.
Veteran Army paratrooper Eric Sifford, 60, lived with back pain for years until his Whole Health treatment with acupuncture.
Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Marine Corps Veteran Kyle T. Gourlie, who served as a machine gunner during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
VA has extended the presumptive period for qualifying chronic disabilities resulting from undiagnosed illnesses in Persian Gulf War Veterans.
After five surgeries, Iraq Army Veteran Seyward McKinney hoped she was out of the woods. Then she had a stroke. Horses helped her recover.
Perhaps your New Year’s resolutions have been forgotten, but it’s never too late to set an intention. And you can do this every day!
In a double-blind trial, Krystal and his team will compare the drugs trazodone, eszopiclone, and gabapentin to placebo. All three contain sleep-inducing ingredients but work in different ways.
Dr. Drew Helmer, an internist at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center in Houston, co-authored the 2021 paper. He and his colleagues first identified whether drinking Concord grape juice is linked to increased levels of polyphenols in the blood. They then tried to learn whether these increases correlate with improved cognitive performance in 26 Veterans with Gulf War illness.
The initiative is called the Interagency Resource Coordinating Center for Preclinical TBI Research (IRCC). It will focus on making the most of federal investments in pre-clinical TBI, with scientists working together to identify the preclinical models that best represent TBI in humans and sharing data in more uniform ways.
Importantly, the investigators went on to identify two FDA-approved medications that could obstruct the dangerous process. They say these drugs could suggest new directions in TBI and Alzheimer’s research and treatment.