Tricare Users Can Get Waiver to Avoid Price Hike if Drugs Back-Ordered Tricare users can get a waiver to avoid a price hike at retail pharmacies on some name-brand medications if the drugs are...
Pentagon Now Says Army Mistakenly Sent Live Anthrax to All 50 States A probe into the service's mistaken shipments of live anthrax spores has widened to all 50 states, nine countries and 194...
HHS Develops an Anthrax Vaccine While DoD Stumbles The Health and Human Services Administration managed to come up with an vaccine without the dangerous shipment of live...
US Military May Have Also Mishandled Plague and Encephalitis Bacteria In addition to shipping live anthrax, military labs may also have mishandled plague and equine encephalitis bacteria.
Military Health Officials Consider Fast Food, Vending Machine Changes Officials want to make vending machines and fast food on base healthier by changing menus and bringing in nutritional options...
Air Force Chief’s Resilience Conquers Breast Cancer Chief Master Sgt. Yolanda Jennings recalled that when doctors diagnosed her with breast cancer in September 2008 she was not...
Pentagon to Cut Pay Rates for Autism Specialists: Tricare Officials Specialists providing autism care to military families will face a pay cut in the spring, Tricare officials announced Tuesday...
Marijuana Refugees: Wounded Veterans Willing to Move for Medicinal Pot The Senate passed legislation with a provision that would allow Veterans Affairs Department doctors to recommend medical...
Will Tricare Reforms Improve Access, Raise Fees or Both? Reform plans in Congress are moving away from the Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission...
VA to Expand Coverage for Vets Exposed to Polluted Water at Lejeune The Veterans Affairs Department announced plans to expand disability benefits for vets exposed to contaminated water at...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
