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 […]
Courtesy Story Defense Health Agency FALLS CHURCH, Virginia – The Defense Health Agency is seeking solutions to change the care model and create a new value equation for military medicine. DHA is partnering with Defense Innovation Unit to solicit industry expertise and new ideas. The focus will be organized across three lines of effort: • […]
Story by Jean Graves Bayne-Jones Army Community Hospital FORT JOHNSON, La. —Bayne-Jones Army Community Hospital recently joined forces with Louisiana State University, Alexandria to serve as a clinical training site for their associate degree in medical laboratory science. Jeff Langston, dean for the LSUA College of Health & Human Services, said he appreciates the opportunity […]
Story by Kathryn Ellis-Warfield U.S. Army Medical Logistics Command FORT LIBERTY, N.C. — Transformational change was the focus of a three-day exercise that brought together more than 100 stakeholders from throughout the Army. The target: Integrate medical materiel into Army sustainment processes and systems. “It is critical that we evolve medical logistics as we evolve […]