Rosacea’s etiology remains a mystery, even as promising new treatments and interventions are employed. Now, new VA-led studies are providing clues to what causes rosacea and what can cure it.

Rural veterans with hepatitis C (HCV) could live hours from a medical center that provides specialty treatment for the disease. Through the VA Connecticut Healthcare System’s telemedicine initiative, however, specialists are training primary-care practitioners to deliver high quality HCV care close to home for patients.

Intrauterine devices (IUDs) are safe, effective and convenient but remain underused in the United States. That also is true in the military, where storage limitations and difficulties with compliance argue for better birth-control options.

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) accounts for 22% of total casualties in the current conflicts and 59% of the injuries where servicemembers are exposed to blasts. That makes research on the relationship between TBI and dementia later in life especially critical for the future of the VHA.