Story by Jennifer Goulart Navy and Marine Corps Force Health Protection Command Forward Deployable Preventive Medicine Units (FDPMUs) are essential components of the Navy’s public health and medical readiness and Navy Medicine’s only Public Health expeditionary platform. Two teams are currently undergoing a crucial certification process known as the “Medical TYCOM (Type Command) Certification” and […]
Story by Bernard Little Walter Reed National Military Medical Center The U.S. Air Force activated the 316th Inpatient Squadron at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC) on Aug. 23, 2024, the first Air Force squadron to exist entirely within Walter Reed. In her remarks at the ceremony, WRNMMC Director U.S. Navy CAPT (Dr.) Melissa […]
Story by Janet A. Aker Defense Health Agency [Editor’s note: This article deals with mental health issues and resources that may help. If you or someone you know is having a mental health crisis, call 988 for the Military and Veteran Crisis Line and press “1”, or text 838255, or chat with a live counselor. […]
Story by Regena Kowitz Defense Health Agency KISSIMMEE, Fla. (Aug. 29, 2024) – Researchers from across the globe, including several from Defense Health Network (DHN) Pacific Rim who shared key research findings about vision, hearing, and cognitive performance, attended the 2024 Military Health System Research Symposium (MHSRS) in the Sunshine State from Aug. 26-29. “The […]
Story by Erin Perez U.S. Army Medical Center of Excellence JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO—The opening day of the U.S. Army Medical Center of Excellence Medical Warfighting Forum took place on Sept. 4, on JBSA-Lackland Air Force Base. This is the second forum following last year’s inaugural event that brought together leaders from a broad cross-section […]
By Justine Cowan Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Fred Cohrs is a prostate cancer good news success story. He was a high-risk patient, diagnosed by a biopsy performed at the Alexander T. Augusta Military Medical Center at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, then referred to the Prostate Center at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC) […]
Story by Petty Officer 1st Class Heath Zeigler Naval Medical Leader & Professional Development Command During July 2024, Naval Medical Leader and Professional Development Command (NMLPDC) held the annual 4-week in-person Military Tropical Medicine (MTM) didactic course for 43 students at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences. The didactic phase of the course was […]
Story by NMCCL Public Affairs Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune FORT MCCOY, W.I. – U.S. Sailors from Expeditionary Medical Facility Kilo integrated with U.S. Marine Corps Forces Reserve 4th Medical Battalion to participate in Exercise Global Medic 2024, an annual multinational, multicomponent collective training exercise that ran from Aug. 3-16 in Fort McCoy, Wisconsin. Global […]
Story by Paul Lagasse Medical Research and Development Command FORT DETRICK, Md. – When Dr. Carrie Quinn was the director of the Gains in the Education of Mathematics and Science summer enrichment program at the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, she would greet the students with high fives every morning at the front […]
Story by Erin Sherwood U.S. Army Human Resources Command There are many leaders in the U.S. Army, but few leaders receive the prestigious Gen. Douglas MacArthur Award for exceptional leadership. The MacArthur Leadership Award program was introduced in 1987 to recognize 28 company-grade and junior warrant officers annually who demonstrate MacArthur’s ideals of “Duty, Honor, […]
