Veteran Prescriptions for Addictive ADHD Drugs Are Not Being Properly Vetted and Tracked, Watchdog Says The inspector general found that VA providers aren't always documenting patient assessments before prescribing the stimulant...
Troops Still Aren't Getting Enough Sleep, and the Defense Department Isn't Taking Responsibility, Watchdog Says A recent GAO report recommends more top-level ownership in the military to help improve troop sleeping patterns.
Vets Say Weight Loss Drugs Have Improved Their Health, But New Patients Are Out of Luck Wegovy patients at the VA say the medication has turned their health around and erased their once-constant "food noise." But...
Defense Department to Begin Tracking Drug Overdoses, Providing Antidote Drug Naloxone Previously, overdoses within the military -- fatal and non-fatal -- weren't systematically tracked.
Military Couples Trying to Start Families Face Fear, Frustration Following Alabama Fertility Care Ruling Some service members and their spouses are concerned they may soon be forced to choose between military service and having a...
Traumatic Brain Injury Bill Calls for Sweeping Changes in Military Health Care, Training, Safety to Protect Troops The 46-page bill comes amid growing evidence that troops are at risk of exposure to potentially dangerous blasts not just...
Medical Beard Waivers Nearly Double in Air Force and Space Force in Just 3 Years Between 2021 and 2023, the number of active-duty airmen with shaving waivers due to pseudofolliculitis barbae, a skin...
Georgia Veterans Are Healing Through Therapeutic Writing Published last year and in 2018, a pair of studies concluded written exposure therapy for U.S. military veterans with PTSD is...
An Introduction to 'Intuitive Eating' and a Better Relationship with Food Maybe instead of thinking about our food options as "good" or "bad" and feeling the guilt associated with "cheating on the...
More Specialty Drugs Cost Less with New Pharmacy's Addition to Tricare Home Delivery Tricare beneficiaries with prescriptions for specialty drugs can now get more of them at the lower copays of Tricare Home...
Police Who Shot Florida Airman 6 Times in His Home May Have Entered Wrong Apartment, Family Says Senior Airman Roger Fortson lived in an off-base residence, and his special operations squadron at Hurlburt Field in the...
Florida Airman Was Shot by Deputy Within Seconds of Opening Apartment Door, Body Cam Footage Shows Only as Fortson is lying on the floor of his apartment fatally wounded does the deputy tell him to drop his weapon, a firearm...
'They Took My Gift Away': In Interview, Mother of Florida Airman Killed by Police Describes Shock Meka Fortson told Military.com in an exclusive interview Thursday that her son, Senior Airman Roger Fortson, had always...
Army Pumping Millions into Food Kiosks, But They May Soon Be Obsolete Kiosks are effectively small snack stands providing soldiers with sandwiches, candy, chips and soda -- offerings that hold...
Apache Crash Injures 2 Fort Riley Soldiers as Army Grapples with Nonstop Aviation Incidents The pair of soldiers with the 1st Infantry Division's Combat Aviation Brigade were being treated for injuries after the crash...