NFL star, former Olympian shares struggle with mental illness with Veterans; Breast cancer awareness information for Veterans

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Mobile medical unit brings much needed care to storm-ravaged Puerto Rico

Veterans are able to access VA health care services in their community again thanks to a mobile medical unit brought in from the Orlando, Florida VA Medical Center.

NFL star, former Olympian shares struggle with mental illness with Phoenix Veterans

Football legend Herschel Walker shared his battle with dissociative identity disorder with a packed room of Veterans and VA employees earlier this month at the Carl T. Hayden Medical Center in Phoenix.

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The flu is nothing to sneeze at, for every year in the United States, influenza hospitalizes up to 226,000 people and is blamed for 36,000 deaths.

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This week we honor Army Veteran Allison Fortado Ball.

Allison served from 2002 to 2011. Allison commissioned as a Medical Service Officer after she graduated from Texas Christian University in 2002. She deployed twice in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

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