A week after the Department of Veterans Affairs published an interim final rule that would have lowered disability ...

A policy requiring VA medical examiners to include effects of medication in assigning disability ratings is expected to be ...

I am writing about the Veterans Affairs interim final rule RIN 2900-AS49, effective Feb. 17, which requires that a disability rating be based on a veteran’s actual, medicated or treated functional ...

A Vietnam veteran has filed suit over a VA rule that requires medical examiners to factor in a medication's effects when ...

VA disability benefits in 2026: A 70% disability rating from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) offers far more than a monthly check. It opened the door to expanded healthcare coverage, ...

Veterans will have their disability compensation evaluated based on whether their prescribed medication or treatment improves their illness or injury, according to a new federal rule. The Department ...

An optometrist provides an eye exam to a VA beneficiary in 2022 at Fort Meade, Maryland. (Michelle Gonzalez/U.S. Army) Veterans Affairs medical examiners are now required to consider the effects of ...

Treating obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) goes beyond improving sleep quality. “Obstructive sleep apnea is not just about snoring or feeling tired — it is very much a brain condition,” says Joanna ...

In less than 90 minutes, a new, less invasive electrical stimulation technique has been found to improve breathing in people with sleep apnea. The technique, which involves percutaneous hypoglossal ...

Editor's note: Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins announced Feb. 19 that the VA “is halting the enforcement of the interim final rule,” Collins said in a post on X. “VA issued the ...

Veterans Affairs medical examiners are now required to consider the effects of medication on a veteran's health condition when assigning a disability rating under a new regulation published Tuesday by ...