Addressing Opioid Use Disorder and Transforming Pain Management in the VA
Over the last several years, the health care community, the federal government, and the media have focused enormous attention …
Veterans Affairs & Military Medicine
Interview: Maj. Gen. Barbara R. Holcomb
Maj. Gen. Barbara R. Holcomb is a 1987 Distinguished Military Graduate of Seattle University Army ROTC where she earned …
Walter Reed Doctor Gets AMSUS Award for Work on Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
Antibiotics are important to the care of service members, especially those returning from the battlefield. But the rise …
VA Research: Homelessness
About 7 percent of Americans overall are veterans – but veterans account for about 11 percent of the nation’s …
Interview with David J. Shulkin, M.D.
The Honorable David J. Shulkin, M.D., is under secretary for health for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. …
Interview With Lt. Gen. Mark A. Ediger, MD
Lt. Gen. Mark A. Ediger, MD, is the surgeon general of the Air Force, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, …
The Public Health Service Commissioned Corps
The U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) has a long, unique and distinguished history as a uniformed service. While most of …
U.S. Military Medicine and AMSUS: A History
For more than a century after the medical departments of the Continental Army (1775) and Navy (1798) …
Editorial: One Veteran Suicide Is Too Many
Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) released results of the largest and most comprehensive analysis …
AMSUS: Tying Together the Military Health System and Others
Founded in 1891 and chartered by Congress in 1903 as the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, AMSUS …