News releases

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.

A VA Boston researcher was approved for $6 million in funding Tuesday, April 23, 2024, by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to study a comprehensive, personalized intervention for patients who have experienced intimate partner violence, commonly known as IPV.

The Department of Veterans Affairs announced today that Veteran trust in VA Boston Healthcare System has risen to 94.4 percent — up from 90.6 percent in 2018, the first year VA began conducting this survey.

VA Boston Healthcare System is now recruiting caregivers for its Medical Foster Home program.

There was a fire Tuesday morning, March 19, 2024, near the MRI suite in Building 1B of the Jamaica Plain VA campus.

There was a fire this morning, March 19, 2024, near the MRI suite in Building 1B of the Jamaica Plain VA campus.

As part of VA’s nationwide homelessness goals, VA Boston Healthcare System housed 359 homeless Veterans in 2023.

The Veterans Health Administration is sending letters to 46,677 Veterans notifying them of the potential disclosure of limited information that may have been sent to another VA patient.