Story by MaryTherese Griffin Army Recovery Care Program FALLS CHURCH Va., – Army Spc. Joaquin Pina, a water treatment specialist at Ft Drum, New York, has quite the story to share. It was a typical fall day in upstate New York, and typical Army training was in full swing until a very atypical thing happened […]
Story by Erin Perez U.S. Army Medical Center of Excellence JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, TEXAS—U.S. News and World Report ranks several programs at the Fort Sam Houston-based U.S. Army Medical Center of Excellence highly in their most recent report on the best graduate health schools. Within the MEDCoE Graduate School, there are 14 […]
Story by Bernard Little Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Four Walter Reed doctors and a specialty care clinic are listed among the Military Health System’s (MHS) Joint Outpatient Experience Survey (JOES) Best of the Best in its first quarter of fiscal year 2024 report (October to December 2023) recently released by MHS officials. To […]
Story by Janet A. Aker Defense Health Agency The Defense Health Agency tracked more than 500 transports from the front lines to hospitals of simulated casualties during the computer exercise Operation Austere Challenge 2024, March 4–14. Austere Challenge is an annual classified exercise in response to a fictional military crisis. It is run by the […]
Courtesy Story Defense Health Agency By V. Hauschild, MPH, Defense Centers for Public Health – Aberdeen More than 20 years ago, military public health scientists warned that service members had higher rates of certain sexually transmitted diseases, known as STDs, than U.S. civilians. The military’s higher risk of STD was reportedly due to aspects of […]
Story by Cmdr. Marshall Hoffman Naval Medical Research Command LIMA, Peru – Researchers from U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) SOUTH have an ongoing collaboration with local Peruvian hospitals to surveil pathogens causing febrile (having to do with fever) and respiratory diseases such as dengue, malaria, influenza and COVID-19 in Peru and other partner nations […]
Courtesy Story Navy and Marine Corps Force Health Protection Command The Navy Environmental and Preventive Medicine Unit Two (NEPMU Two) celebrates its 75th anniversary, March 30, 2024, on Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia. Established on March 10, 1949, the Fleet Epidemic Disease Control Units (FEDCUs), now known as the Navy Environmental and Preventive Medicine Units (NEPMUs), […]
Story by Walter Ham 20th CBRNE Command ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. – A seasoned Medical Service Corps colonel retired from the U.S. Army after more than three decades of serving around the world. Col. Matthew J. Grieser retired during a widely attended ceremony, April 11, at the 20th Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosives (CBRNE) Command […]
Courtesy Story U.S. Army Medical Center of Excellence FORT LIBERTY, NC-The U.S. Army Medical Test and Evaluation Activity), conducted a customer test of the Advanced Medium Power Source (AMMPS) 120kW Microgrid System at Fort Liberty, North Carolina, Mar.19 though 21. The test was conducted in partnership with the Project Management Office, Expeditionary Energy and Sustainment […]
Story by Douglas Stutz Naval Hospital Bremerton/Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Bremerton For Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Robediane G. Santiago, becoming a victim advocate was more than just a natural extension of her Navy career. The choice was emblematic of everything she holds dear as an empathetic person and trained hospital corpsman pledged to […]