News releases

Department of Veterans Affairs and Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine researchers found evidence that pseudobulbar affect may be an early marker of Alzheimer’s disease, according to a paper published in the International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, Oct. 22, 2024.

A VA clinical researcher and professor at Harvard Medical School was named as a new member by the National Academy of Medicine Monday, Oct. 21, 2024.

Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough will visit the Jamaica Plain VA Medical Center and other VA sites to meet with facility leadership and employees to highlight VA’s Veteran-focused programs and services across the Massachusetts area.

VA Boston Healthcare System officially opened a new interventional radiology suite for Veteran patients at its West Roxbury campus today, Oct. 2, 2024.

Today, VA Boston Healthcare System announced it has housed 363 Veterans experiencing homeless in the greater Boston area this fiscal year.

A scientific director at VA Boston published a new proposed classification system for angina patients in both the U.S. journal Circulation and the European Heart Journal, Friday, Aug. 30, 2024.

Researchers at VA Boston, Harvard Medical School, and Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine recommended expanding traumatic brain injury screening among women Veterans to include interpersonal violence in a paper published Aug. 14, 2024, in the journal Brain Sciences.

A researcher at VA Boston, BU Chobanian & Avedisian SOM and Boston Medical Center helped develop alternative lung cancer screening to identify people who would benefit from screening, but are excluded by current criteria, according to research published Aug. 20, 2024, in Annals of Internal Medicine.

Clinicians at VA Boston Healthcare System found that formation of an interprofessional team facilitated roll out of a new therapy for Alzheimer’s disease in a paper published in the journal Neurology Clinical Practice Friday, Aug. 16, 2024.

Dr. Michael Charness, chief medical officer of VA Boston Healthcare System, was presented with the 2023 Mark Wolcott Award for Excellence in Clinical Care Leadership May 22, 2024, during the Veterans Health Administration Governance Board meeting in Washington, D.C.