These brochures highlight VA research in the following areas: Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom (OIF/OEF), Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Women's Health, Mental Health, Prosthetics, Rural Health, and Federal Research Collaboration.
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Federal Research Collaboration
This brochure highlights VA collaborations with other federal agencies. These collaborations enable the VA to support
the swift translation of medical findings into real-life strategies to make life
better for veterans and all Americans.
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Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses
VA Research is conducting a wide array of studies to
better understand and treat the illnesses experienced
by some Veterans of the 1990–1991 Gulf War.
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Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans
This brochure describes VA's comprehensive research agenda to address the deployment-related health issues of the newest generation of veterans—those returning from Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom (OIF/OEF).
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Mental Health
This brochure highlights examples of VA Research’s trailblazing discoveries and
innovations in support of veterans’ mental health care needs.
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
This brochure presents examples of VA’s recent
accomplishments in PTSD research. These studies,
it is hoped, will benefit veterans and many other
Americans now and in the future and spare them from
PTSD’s life-disrupting symptoms and complications.
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Prosthetics
This brochure highlights the many
forms of rehabilitation that these veterans require,
and introduces the VA Research program’s broad
spectrum of advances in prosthetics and related
assistive devices to address these health care needs.
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Rural Health
This brochure highlights work conducted by the VA to further increase access to high-quality health care for veterans in rural areas.
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Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
This brochure highlights some of the groundbreaking
research projects being undertaken by VA’s dedicated
investigators—studies that promise, ultimately,
to improve the care available to our courageous
veterans coping with traumatic brain injury.
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VA Academic Research Collaboration
This brochure will give you a glimpse of some of the innovative health discoveries and
advances being made by VA and academic researchers, and illustrate how these collaborative
achievements are improving the lives of our nation’s Veterans and their families.
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VA Research & Development Program Overview
For more than 60 years, the Veterans Affairs (VA) Research and Development program has been improving the lives of Veterans and all Americans through health care discovery and innovation. The VA Research program is unique because of its focus on medical issues that affect Veterans. It is part of an integrated health care system with a state-of-the-art electronic health record and has come to be viewed as a model for superior bench-to-bedside research.
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Women's Health
This brochure highlights examples of VA Research’s
innovations and discoveries that are further
advancing health care for women.
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