Courtesy Story Special Operations Command Africa Maputo, Mozambique – U.S. Special Operations Forces Africa (SOCAFRICA) conducted a medical knowledge exchange focusing on mental health with the Mozambican forces in Maputo, Mozambique, August 26-29, 2024. This event represented SOCAFRICA’s first mental health engagement hosted with the Mozambican forces. Over the four-day engagement, nearly 20 officers from […]
Story by Jessie Hudson Martin Army Community Hospital Dr. Tajaki Broussard, an outpatient pharmacist at Martin Army Community Hospital (MACH), recently achieved the prestigious title of Outpatient Pharmacist of the Year through the Defense Health Network (DHN) East. Her unique healthcare journey, which started early in life when she assisted her grandmother with medications, has […]
Story by Quentin Johnson United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases FORT DETRICK, Md. – Research conducted by U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases scientists into a promising mpox vaccine has been featured in the prestigious scientific journal Cell, highlighting the institute’s commitment to protecting Warfighters against emerging deadly diseases. USAMRIID’s […]
Story by T. T. Parish U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity (USAMMDA) Team members with the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity joined dozens of U.S. Army medics at Fort Liberty, North Carolina, to assess the progress of several traumatic brain injury detection devices as part of a Soldier touchpoint this week. The Soldiers provided […]
By Bernard S. Little WRNMMC Command Communications Airmen of the 316th Inpatient Operations Squadron (IPTS), the U.S. Air Force’s first squadron stood up at Walter Reed on Aug. 23, 2024, joined other team members at the medical center to celebrate the branch’s 77th birthday with a cake-cutting ceremony following morning colors on Sept. 19, 2024. […]
Story by Jean Graves Bayne-Jones Army Community Hospital FORT JOHNSON, La. — September is suicide prevention month and wrestling my own demons for nearly two months recently got me thinking about how powerful those dark thoughts can be. How difficult it can be to move past a setback. I’ve always been a “glass half full” […]
Story by Curtis Hill Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton officially opened the new and improved 21 Area Branch Health Clinic aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton’s Camp Del Mar on Sept. 19, 2024. The new state-of-the-art facility stocked with up-to-date equipment was constructed through a collaborative effort by Soltek Pacific, HKS-WSP Joint […]
Story by Tech. Sgt. Tory Patterson 59th Medical Wing As of Aug. 1, 2024, Wilford Hall Family Emergency Center was incorporated into the Southwest Texas Regional Advisory Council (STRAC) Trauma and Emergency Healthcare System as a Freestanding Emergency Center. STRAC is designated by the Texas Department of State Health Services to develop, implement, and maintain […]
Story by Maddi Langweil Medical Research and Development Command Altitude sickness emerged as a human concern thousands of years ago, and not just out of thin air. Even with years of studying the symptoms and impact on the body, it still affects many people who ascend to altitudes above 8,000 feet. The U.S. Army Research […]
Story by Christina Johnson Naval Medical Center – Portsmouth Naval Medical Center Portsmouth (NMCP) active duty and civilian staff members, led by Capt. Brian Feldman, NMCP director/Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Portsmouth commander, gathered at Morning Colors to honor the lives lost due to the attacks on the World Trade Center towers, the Pentagon, […]
