Veterans Health

Obstructive sleep apnea may increase the risk for Parkinson’s disease, but early intervention with continuous positive airway pressure treatment reduced the incidence of PD in U.S. veterans with the sleep disorder, preliminary data show.

In January, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration announced new rules to make permanent expanded telehealth access that was established during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly for individuals on controlled medications.

Veterans with apnea-hypopnea index scores implying no sleep apnea or severe sleep apnea had higher all-cause mortality rates vs. those with mild/moderate sleep apnea, according to data published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

Use of menopausal hormone therapy among midlife active-duty servicewomen in the U.S. is twice as high as the general population but lower than women veterans, suggesting those who may derive the most benefit from HT are not receiving it.

Among post-9/11 United States military veterans, mild traumatic brain injury was associated with unfavorable long-term outcomes, such as severe PTSD, when occurring around a traumatic event, researchers wrote in JAMA Network Open.

A small proportion of veterans who went from a metered-dose inhaler to a dry-powder inhaler had to revert to the metered-dose inhaler, according to a research letter published in JAMA Network Open.

On Jan. 2 President Joe Biden signed into law a reform bill that would add optometrists practicing in the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs to the physician pay scale, according to the American Optometric Association.

On Dec. 16, the House passed S141, a reform bill that would include optometry in the physician pay scale, according to an American Optometric Association press release.

Lesbian, gay and bisexual U.S. veterans had significantly higher odds for prevalent atherosclerotic CVD compared with their heterosexual peers, according to findings published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

Every year, as Veterans Day approaches, my thoughts invariably turn toward those who have served in the United States military and have returned from wars with physical, mental, and spiritual scars.