For many years, doctors have used a group of medicines called opioids to help people with pain. These medicines, which come from the poppy plant,
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How To Get VA Disability for Hearing Loss
For most veterans, having to deal with hearing loss and tinnitus is quite common. As of the year 2014, the Department of Veterans Affairs noted that
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Epilepsy is a medical condition involving recurrent, unprovoked seizures. Seizures are defined as a period of abnormal electrical brain activity in
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Diabetes is a disease that causes your body to not process carbohydrates properly, increasing the amount of sugar your body has to process. It is
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Veterans who were exposed to asbestos while in service and developed a disease related to asbestos exposure may receive service-connected compensation
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A 37-year-old man set out for a trip to Nigeria with his family. Prior to the trip, the man had begun taking mefloquine, a drug derived from quinine,
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When you file a claim for service-connected disability compensation you may be asked to report for a compensation and pension exam, or C&P for
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Over the years, there has been a great deal of documentation on how herbicides affect veterans – specifically Viet Nam veterans exposed to Agent
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Military Sexual Trauma (MST). Just these three words alone evoke such terrible memories for those service men and women who have been affected by
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