A basic understanding of finances and financial securities such as bonds and stocks may help reduce the risk of anxiety and other related conditions such as high blood pressure, according to a Japanese study. To carry out the study, a team of researchers from the Hiroshima University and the Nagoya University pooled data from 2,412 respondents, and asked them […]

America’s opioid epidemic has hit a new low, as VA hospitals across the country are reporting a stark increase in opioid theft, missing prescriptions and unauthorized use of the drugs by employees since 2009, according to a new report from The Associated Press. Federal officials are launching more thorough investigations at Department of Veterans Affairs […]

Consumer confidence might be higher than it has been in a long time following the election of Donald Trump as President-Elect, but the current state of the economy isn’t too reassuring to many retirement-age Americans. Many aging “Baby Boomers” are deciding to retire across the border and even overseas to enjoy a better quality of […]

What’s the “Agent Orange curse?” True story: As veterans of the Vietnam war die off from cancer and other diseases and disorders they got from the incredibly toxic defoliant Agent Orange, the nightmare is not over, because research is revealing their children and grandchildren, who were never exposed to the pesticide, have birth defects that […]

The name of the veteran whose lifeless body was left in a shower room for nine hours after he died hasn’t been released, but the incident is now under investigation by the House Veterans Affairs Committee, as reported by the Tampa Bay Times. This death didn’t happen this week, or even last month. It took place on February 1, 2016. As […]

It seems absurd on its face, even villainous, but in true federal government fashion, America’s veterans have been slighted, once again, and in a way that should anger anyone who values the freedom which our military provides us. As reported by Military Times, at least 23 veterans, their family members or current members of the […]

I know a few veterans, and the way in which they have been treated in their so-called health care system is reprehensible. Waiting months for an appointment. And then once seen, having to exhale one painful breath after another to convince the doctor that the injuries they don’t see with their physical eyes are more debilitating than the […]