Veterans Disability Info Blog

According to the American Heart Association, heart disease has been the leading cause of death in the United States since 1921. The Centers for Disease Control warns that in the United States, one person dies every 33 seconds from cardiovascular disease. If you are suffering from a heart condition, you […]

Heartburn doesn’t seem like it should be a disabling condition, but severe, chronic heartburn can limit daily activities. Many veterans suffer from gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), and the symptoms can be significant. GERD can occur due to service-related activities or as a complication of other service-linked disabilities, making you eligible […]

Oscoda Army Air Field, Camp Skeel, and Oscoda Air Force Post were the names given to Michigan’s Wurtsmith Air Force Base between 1923 and 1993. Toxic chemicals contained in aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF), generally referred to as PFAS, began to poison the base’s drinking water in the 1970s. Contamination with […]

We recently won service connection for a veteran’s myocardial infarction secondary to a service connected psychiatric disability.  This veteran’s psychiatric disability was different than the typical PTSD scenario that we often face in this office.  This veteran had a psychiatric disability that produced a binge eating disorder.  Unlike the typical […]

A new study recently found a close correlation between Agent Orange exposure and high blood pressure. A study was published recently by VA researchers in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. This group of researchers found higher rates of hypertension among members of the Army Chemical Corps who handled […]

Has the Department of Veterans’ Affairs (VA) denied your Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC) benefits claim because they don’t feel post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) causes vascular dementia or adult failure to thrive? VA examiners continue to view PTSD as a narrow, separate entity and fail to consider the holistic synergistic […]

Are you a veteran with service connected post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) who suffers from other disabilities or illnesses? Far too often, veterans do not realize that PTSD can lead to a wide array of health problems, including diabetes, sleep apnea, cardiovascular issues – even cancer. The Department of Veterans’ Affairs […]

Has the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) denied your benefits claim based on a diagnosis of sleep apnea? Even with the extensive medical research and statistically significant correlations between sleep apnea and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), weight gain, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, it can be difficult to get […]

I recently received a favorable decision from the Board of Veterans Appeals in a service-connection for the cause of death case. My client was the surviving spouse of the veteran and she had a DIC claim. My client’s husband died of a heart attack at a young age with the […]

I recently conducted some research for a client’s case wherein I was trying to establish service-connection for sleep apnea and a number of other problems. The doctors for the VA rejected the association between service and the sleep apnea on the grounds that the Veteran’s sleep apnea was due to […]