Houston VA Docs Refuse to Give Up on Veteran with High-Risk, Difficult Cardiac Case
Health care providers used a multidisciplinary approach to successfully treat a 61-year-old Army Veteran who had tried to get help from two premiere cardiovascular, non-VA institutes in the past. (read more)

New Veterans Court Created
Houston VA helps create a courts system specifically designed to pull non-violent Veterans with combat-related PTSD and other mental health issues out of the criminal justice system and into treatment. (read more)

High-tech Prosthetics Improve Veterans' Quality of Life
The term “prosthetics” means much more than artificial limbs, wheelchairs, and hearing aids at the DeBakey VA. (read more)

DeBakey VA Opens ‘Welcome Center’ for Returning Combat Veterans
The DeBakey VA opened a new Post-Deployment Clinic in Suite 1B-373. (read more)

Double Trouble: H1N1 Flu and Seasonal Flu
While the new H1N1 Flu virus is in the news, don’t forget to get your annual, seasonal flu vaccination. (read more)

9 Years Straight, Houston VA Achieves Consistently Low Surgical Mortality Rates
The DeBakey VA has been recognized for demonstrating consistently low observed-to-expected mortality rates in general surgery, all surgery, and all non-cardiac surgery. (read more)

Pivotal study could establish new standard of care for preventing surgical-site infections
Patients, whose surgeons use chlorhexidine-alcohol rather than povidone-iodine to cleanse their skin before surgery, are approximately 40 percent less likely to experience surgical-site infections. (read more)

DeBakey VA Offers New Versatile Technology for Cancer Patients
The DeBakey VA is home to a new Varian Trilogy linear accelerator, considered one of the most versatile cancer treatment devices available in the field of radiation therapy. (read more)

78 Houston VA Docs Listed as "Best Doctors" in the Nation
MEDVAMC boasts 37 staff physicians on Best Doctors list plus 41 consultants and attending physicians. (read more)

New VA Outpatient Clinics Opening Next Year
The Houston VA is making progress toward establishing four new VA outpatient clinics in Richmond, Lake Jackson, Katy, and Tomball and reopening its clinic in Texas City. (read more)