Health Policy
Commentary
Who Gets to Determine Whether Home Is “Unsafe” at the End of Life?
Sometimes a patient at the end of life (EOL) just wants to go home. We recently treated such a patient, “Joe,” a 66-year...
Commentary
Where Have All the Future Veterans Gone?
The title of this Veterans Day editorial is a paraphrase of the legendary folk artist Pete Seeger’s protest song...
COVID-19 News
How VA Innovative Partnerships and Health Care Systems Can Respond to National Needs: NOSE Trial Example
Traditional manufacturing concentrates capacity into a few discrete locations while applying lean and just-in-time philosophies to...
COVID-19 News
VA SHIELD: A Biorepository for Veterans and the Nation
The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) clinicians, clinician-investigators, and investigators perform basic and translational research for the...
COVID-19 News
Nationwide Genomic Surveillance and Response to COVID-19: The VA SeqFORCE and SeqCURE Consortiums
The COVID-19 virus and its associated pandemic have highlighted the urgent need for a national infrastructure to rapidly identify and respond to...
COVID-19 News
VA Big Data Science: A Model for Improved National Pandemic Response Present and Future
The COVID-19 pandemic emphasized the need for rapid response research in health care.
COVID-19 News
Leveraging the Million Veteran Program Infrastructure and Data for a Rapid Research Response to COVID-19
The Million Veteran Program (MVP) was launched in 2011 by the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to enroll at least 1 million veterans in a...
COVID-19 News
VA Lessons From Partnering in COVID-19 Clinical Trials
The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), through its Office of Research and Development (ORD), supports an extensive and experienced clinical...
COVID-19 News
The VA Research Enterprise: A Platform for National Partnerships Toward Evidence Building and Scientific Innovation
The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) plays a substantial role in the nation’s public health through the Veterans Health Administration (VHA...
Commentary
Introduction
Like the flip of a light switch, the world in March 2020 went into lockdown. Suddenly the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was ever-present...