A small but growing number of veterans around the country are turning to beekeeping as a potential treatment for anxiety, PTSD and other conditions.

Ahead of the Memorial Day weekend, the U.S. Army’s Twitter account asked current and former soldiers how serving in the military has impacted their lives. The tweet was accompanied with a video of Pfc. Nathan Spencer, a scout with the Army’s First Infantry Division, who shared how the Army has allowed him to serve something greater than himself, “to give...

A huge loss happened just days before Memorial Day Weekend for a Temecula non-profit that provides therapy for disabled veterans.

A huge loss happened just days before Memorial Day Weekend for a Temecula non-profit that provides therapy for disabled veterans. NBC 7’s Danica McAdam has more.

The Sunnyvale police chief says new evidence indicates Isaiah Peoples deliberately drove into a crowd of pedestrians based on race and ethnicity, and believed that some in the group were Muslims.

Operation Game On helps members of the military through golf, the non-profits slogan is “building confidence one swing at a time.”

John Mayer is launching a foundation focused on improving the health of veterans through scientific research. The Grammy-winning singer on Friday announced The Heart and Armor Foundation, which plans to focus on veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and meeting the emerging needs of women veterans. Though he publicly announced the foundation on Friday, Mayer has been working on the organization...

Meditation worked as well as traditional therapy for military veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder in a small experiment sponsored by the Department of Defense.

Thousands of foster children may be getting powerful psychiatric drugs prescribed to them without basic safeguards, says a federal watchdog agency that found a failure to care for youngsters whose lives have already been disrupted. A report released Monday by the Health and Human Services inspector general’s office found that about 1 in 3 foster kids from a sample of...

Marine veteran Kayla Carnivale says she’s been looking for peace since she left the military with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

The San Diego VA is in the process of gaining approval to study marijuana as a treatment for PTSD. NBC 7’s Bridget Naso has more on the story.

Army veteran Jose Belen says the horrors of the Iraq War left him with post-traumatic stress disorder, and the drug that helped him cope best with the symptoms was one his Veterans Affairs doctors could not legally prescribe: marijuana.

The muddy floodwaters now soaking through drywall, carpeting, mattresses and furniture in Houston will pose a massive cleanup challenge with potential public health consequences....
It’s not known yet what kinds or how much sewage, chemicals and waterborne germs are mixed in the water. For now, health officials are more concerned about drownings, carbon monoxide poisoning from generators and hygiene at shelters....

A quiet, unsmiling little girl with big brown eyes crawls inside a carpeted cubicle, hugs a stuffed teddy bear tight, and turns her head away from the noisy classroom. The safe spaces, quiet times and breathing exercises for her and the other preschoolers at the Verner Center for Early Learning are designed to help kids cope with intense stress so...

Bullets often carve a fatal path: About 36,000 Americans were killed by a firearm in 2015, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but nearly 85,000 gunshot victims treated in emergency rooms survived. NBC News spoke to six people about how surviving a gunshot wound has changed their lives. Sara Cusimano was shot when she was kidnapped and...

NBC 7’s Danielle Radin talked to the founder of Weed for Warriors, a nonprofit that wants to help veterans suffering from PTSD and other medical conditions, by offering free medical marijuana for those eligible.

A Vietnam War veteran who devoted a good part of his life to honor other veterans received his long-awaited high school diploma Friday.

Many small businesses make it a point to hire veterans. Often the owners have military experience themselves, and believe that years in the service make people dependable and industrious workers.

While more than 50 clinicians around the U.S. are trained to use the Virtual Reality treatment, the current step in the research is to demonstrate that it is more effective than having patients simply describe their trauma from memory. The idea behind virtual reality therapy is to take a patient back to the memory of their trauma over and over...

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin spoke with Today anchors Savannah Guthrie and Matt Lauer about supporting Donald Trump and the controversial comments she made about PTSD and President Obama while stumping for Trump. Read More