Ellen Milhiser

Synopsis newsletter by Gray & Associates provides in-depth coverage of Defense and Veterans health care and personnel issues on Capitol Hill.

[VA Research @VAResearch]

#VAResearchNewsBrief: VA Kansas City researchers helped create a new monoclonal antibody that targets claudin-1 to shrink colorectal tumors and fight treatment resistance, sparing healthy tissue. A promising step toward better colorectal cancer care. #VAResearch
https://t.co/HjGumtKKlW

[Daily Loud @DailyLoud]

BREAKING: Phillip Mullin has become the first child in Louisiana to be functionally cured of sickle cell disease 🎉

[John M. Donnelly @johnmdonnelly]

NEW: .@RepThomasMassie tells me his Pete Hegseth impeachment resolution will be a "week one" item for the House when it returns next month. He predicts a "better than 50 percent chance" it will be adopted. https://t.co/CMn8kB41fh

[Marc Johnson @SolidEvidence]

There is something really concerning (and disappointing) going on in the US right now.
A dangerous and preventable situation.
Let me explain.
https://t.co/zGjyCh9tKs
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[Happy Captain @EODHappyCaptain]

you gotta help me spread this message!

Rob Evans, AKA @hotscots_app, is part of the Microsoft cuts. The future for his family just became very uncertain. This man built Hots and Cots not for money, but for love of Soldiers.

Let’s see if we can get him hired!

#HireRobEvans

Please share!

[Dan Lamothe @DanLamothe]

It's still not legally the Department of War. It's a secondary title created by the administration.

This year's NDAA might change that.

[Jim LaPorta @JimLaPorta]

I won a @Milreporters Award for two stories I wrote about the Iranian drone that killed six Americans in Kuwait at the start of the U.S.-Iran war. @SeanParnellASW disputed the reporting. He said it was a "secured facility" because it had 6-foot walls, soldiers on the ground disagreed.

Story 1: https://t.co/Z5SUuWVJ9z

Story 2: https://t.co/QLqANnu2WA

Award announcement: https://t.co/Kz7XmWc5QX

[NY AG James @NewYorkStateAG]

A court-ordered lifetime ban isn’t a suggestion. 

That's why my office and the @FTC are asking a court to hold Martin Shkreli accountable for violating his industry ban after monopolizing a lifesaving drug.
https://t.co/uPoT1kR0mm

[STAT @statnews]

A gene-editing company is alleging that one of its scientists stole intellectual property and used it to co-found a Chinese company that made a deal with VC firms. This allegation comes amid escalating geopolitical tensions.

[Defense Health Agency @DoD_DHA]

NEWS: Eisenhower Army Medical Center, Augusta VA complete first joint surgical case under new partnership

https://t.co/wTICtuiHpr

[Craig Whitlock @CraigMWhitlock]

RIP Army Col. William DeGraf, age 100, veteran of 3 wars with more combat decorations than you can count. Blocked from promotion to general because he refused to inflate body counts in Vietnam.
Great obit by @dugganwapo
Gift link: https://t.co/WMmWtAVFvV

[💉Warrior Vaccinator💉Boosted AF💉 @jtp802]

Imagine a future where vaccines prevent pancreatic cancer

https://t.co/yl344mqVpK

[Amy McGrath @AmyMcGrathKY]

For the SECOND time, Trump has threatened to withhold compensation from suffering Camp Lejeune veterans and military families if North Carolina doesn’t vote his way. Despicable.

Where are the Republicans who claim to support our veterans?

SILENT.

[Jennifer Hlad @jhlad]

When the U.S. Navy destroyer John Finn left home in January, sailors expected to be home in March. Now, after extensions on top of extensions, their families have been told to expect them next March—after a 14-month deployment. Read my exclusive story: https://t.co/R2Yidhb04L

[Hope Hodge Seck @HopeSeck]

Never forget them.

[Chris Barnes @DOD_Chris]

Early start to the day. Follow along today as I travel from Washington, D.C., to Cleveland and back.

I’ll take you behind the scenes at our Federal EHR go-live celebration in Cleveland. Then, once I’m back in D.C., I’ll head straight to the EHRM Enterprise Operations Center to monitor go-live activities in Alaska and Cleveland.

This is a major milestone: the culmination of VA’s 2026 EHRM restart, with 13 go-lives completed.

We delivered on @SecVetAffairs promise to improve Veterans’ access to care with a modern EHR.

And this is just the beginning!

#Veterans #EHRM #FEHRM #Veteranfirst #VeteranCare

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: MeidasTouch has obtained dozens of NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN photos and videos revealing devastating damage to U.S. military bases from Trump's Iran war.

Troops and military families are breaking their silence, describing being abandoned by their own government.

“It’s so much worse than people realize.” https://t.co/ah37szpwFP

[Rose L. Thayer @Rose_Lori]

Military spouse commission announces progress on child care changes, but details scarce

https://t.co/v06BnNuDcJ

[Governor Gretchen Whitmer @GovWhitmer]

Nearly 10,000 Michiganders started getting letters from Undue Medical Debt last week. If one lands in your mailbox, open it. It’s real, and it’s telling you about medical debt you or someone in your family has accrued that’s been erased. You don’t need to do a thing.

[Patty Nieberg @PattyNieberg]

The memorial was originally removed in 2023 after a Congress-directed commission recommended that the Pentagon remove Confederate monuments & symbols from military property. The Army will now spend $9 million to conserve, repair, & reinstall it. New from @A_CampbellNews