Story by Zeke Gonzalez Walter Reed Army Institute of Research Dr. Jennifer Grossman, business development manager of the Pilot Bioproduction Facility at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, presented on the capabilities of the PBF at the annual World Vaccine Congress conference held in Washington D.C., April 2025. The PBF is a cGMP-compliant facility […]
Story by Zeke Gonzalez Walter Reed Army Institute of Research The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research – Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences conducted disease surveillance in support of exercise No Sick Soljia from 28 March to 14 April in Wewak, Papua New Guinea. No Sick Soljia is an annual exercise conducted by […]
Story by 1st Lt. Katherine Sibilla U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa ACCRA, Ghana — Twenty-seven U.S. medical professionals from Landstuhl Regional Medical Center (LMRC), Dental Health Activity Rheinland-Pfalz, Public Health Command Europe and the North Dakota National Guard concluded a medical readiness exercise (MEDREX) on May 23, 2025 in Accra, Ghana as part […]
Story by Staff Sgt. Mikayla Fritz 807th Theater Medical Command As Exercise Global Medic, the medical component of Operation Mojave Falcon 25, kicks off, the 934th Forward Resuscitative Surgical Detachment highlights its vital role in providing rapid, life-saving care in austere environments while supporting the Army’s readiness and modernization of battlefield medicine. Global Medic delivers […]
Story by Joseph Jones Madigan Army Medical Center MADIGAN ARMY MEDICAL CENTER, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash. — On a beautiful spring afternoon in the Pacific Northwest, Madigan’s Behavioral Health Service Line (BHSL) Director, Lt. Col. (P) Osceola M. Evans, was promoted to the rank of Colonel on Friday, April 4, 2025. He has been a […]
Courtesy Story Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Walter Reed’s Refractive Surgery Center provides care to enhance the operational readiness of active-duty service members. The center is staffed by physicians and technicians who use three state-of-the-art lasers to provide advanced vision correction procedures such as LASIK (Laser-Assisted In-Situ Keratomileusis) and PRK (Photorefracitve Keratectomy). These procedures […]
By Bernard S. Little Walter Reed Office of Command Communications “Occupational Therapy heals the body, mind, and spirit,” and “We may not have it all together, but together, we have it all,” are messages on two well-crafted wooden signs that hang in Walter Reed’s Occupational Therapy (OT) Outpatient Clinic in the America Zone (Bldg. 19). […]
Story by Spc. Justin Fallon 123rd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment HOHENFELS, Germany — Combat medics and medical personnel from multiple NATO units conducted live point-to-point blood transfusion training during Exercise Combined Resolve 25-2 at Hohenfels Training Area, Joint Multinational Readiness Center (JMRC), Germany between May 18-20, 2025. The scenario placed medics into high-pressure environments where […]
Story by Paul Lagasse Medical Research and Development Command FORT DETRICK, Md. – Uncontrolled blood loss from traumatic injury is the leading cause of preventable death on the battlefield, which makes prompt and accurate triage essential for maximizing Warfighter survival. However, the body’s own defense mechanisms can make it difficult to identify someone at greatest […]
Story by Kirk Frady Medical Readiness Command, Europe ACCRA, Ghana – U.S. Army Col. (Dr.) Ted Brown, commander of Landstuhl Regional Medical Center and Command Sgt. Maj. Jorge Oquendo, visited U.S. and Ghanaian forces participating in MEDREX-25 (Medical Readiness Exercise-25) in Accra, Ghana May 19-20. Their visit underscores the significant “shoulder-to-shoulder” collaboration between the two […]