University of Hartford graduate students have made prosthetics for veterans and currently researching on how they will upgrade the prosthetic this year. Jessica Hill / Special to the Courant.

Many veterans, however, weren’t getting these services for up to a year — or at all, the whistleblower alleged. That’s because the head of the prosthetics department, Norma Mestas, was ...

An Oakdale nonprofit is raising money for prosthetics for Ukrainian veterans at an annual event. The Protez Foundation has provided more than 343 amputees with 500 prosthetics since its founding ...

In 2021, an employee with the Department of Veterans Affairs in Aurora alerted leadership to a troubling practice within the federal agency’s Eastern Colorado Health Care System, a vast network ...

WASHINGTON — Some post-9/11 combat veterans say they’re facing challenges when it comes to getting care and prosthetics from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs after having an amputation.

A single high-end prosthetic can top $100,000, and the GAO found the Veterans Health Administration spent a whopping $15.4 billion on care related to veterans’ prosthetics between 2015 and 2019.

For the veterans of the Ukraine war, the opportunity to receive prosthetics is life-changing. Last week, Ivankov took his first steps in a year after receiving a prosthetic leg.

A single high-end prosthetic can top $100,000, and the GAO found the Veterans Health Administration spent a whopping $15.4 billion on care related to veterans’ prosthetics between 2015 and 2019.

A Ukrainian war veteran puts on his prosthetic to take to the runway to demonstrate outfit by designers Andreas Moskin and Andriy Bilous during Fashion Week show in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Sept. 3 ...

Anatoly, another veteran of the Ukraine war, lost his leg in a drone strike in the battlefield. After receiving a prosthetic leg from MCOP, Anatoly now works for the company.