Veterans Health Administration

With a new clinical practice guideline, primary care providers can offer the best stroke rehabilitation care possible to service members and veterans, according to an expert.

LOS ANGELES — U.S. veterans with epilepsy were more likely to adhere to a 90-day supply of antiseizure medication vs. a 30-day supply, resulting in fewer breakthrough seizures and a successful policy change within the VA, researchers reported.

Enzalutamide conferred small but statistically significant improvements in outcomes vs. abiraterone acetate for men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, according to retrospective study results.

At any given PSA level, Black men are more likely than white men to harbor prostate cancer, according to analyses of a Veterans Health Administration cohort.

The Veterans Health Administration’s Care Assessment Need tool may be able to predict the life expectancy of veterans, helping facilitate conversation about treatment for basal cell carcinoma, according to a study.

Combining weight-based dosing and single-use vial sharing within individual Veterans Affairs hospitals could reduce immune checkpoint inhibitor spending by millions annually, according to study results published in Health Affairs.

Utilization of a teleneurology program by U.S. military veterans resulted in more efficient care compared with the community standard, and resulted in a high level of satisfaction, per research from the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

Incidence of myocarditis/pericarditis among veterans was low across more than 10 million doses of messenger RNA COVID-19 vaccines, given as a primary or booster dose, administered at the Veterans Health Administration, researchers found.

SEATTLE — Veterans commonly acquire multidrug-resistant organisms during stays in Veterans Health Administration community living centers, researchers found.

SEATTLE — Veterans Affairs facilities that opted not to suspend active surveillance and contact precautions during the COVID-19 pandemic reported fewer health care-associated MRSA infections, especially in ICUs, researchers found.