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, […]
Story by Tech. Sgt. Justin Norton 302nd Airlift Wing PETERSON SPACE FORCE BASE, Colo. — More than 40 personnel from 15 units across three U.S. military service branches participated in a campaign to augment health services in multiple locations across El Salvador, Aug. 19 to Sep. 6. Service members supported the AMISTAD campaign by integrating […]
Story by C.J. Lovelace U.S. Army Medical Logistics Command CAMP CARROLL, Republic of Korea — U.S. Army Medical Logistics Command supported an Eighth Army deployment readiness exercise July 31, supplying medical sets and equipment to an armored division unit participating in Operation Pacific Fortitude. Pacific Fortitude is a readiness validation exercise, where an Army unit […]
Courtesy Story Defense Health Agency FALLS CHURCH, Va. — Flu season is right around the corner—which means it’s time to start thinking about getting vaccines for common respiratory diseases. If you live or travel overseas, it’s important to know where you can get these vaccines. TRICARE covers flu, COVID-19, and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, […]
