Story by Bernard Little Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Walter Reed National Military Medical Center’s electrophysiology laboratory recently performed the Department of Defense’s first pulsed field ablation (PFA) to treat atrial fibrillation (AFib). PFA offers a safer option for AFib, according to retired U.S. Navy Capt. (Dr.) Matthew Needleman, a clinical cardiac electrophysiologist. Needleman […]
Courtesy Story Defense Health Agency By V. Hauschild, MPH, Defense Health Agency-Public Health Despite the continued development of munitions that create new types of blast fragments that can injure eyes, evidence indicates decreasing rates of eye injuries in the military. This is largely due to the Department of Defense’s efforts to ensure that service members […]
Story by D. Keith Johnson Columbia VA Health Care System COLUMBIA, South Carolina – The Columbia VA Health Care System robotic surgery teams recently completed their 800th robotic surgery and the numbers are increasing every day. The 800th occurred in mid-April, and the teams are on schedule to hit 1000 by the end of the […]
Story by Maddi Langweil Medical Research and Development Command Trillions of microbes in complex communities lie deep within our digestive systems. Despite being unable to be seen by the naked eye, we can feel and benefit from their influence constantly. This is the gut microbiome, which impacts how people respond to diet, the environment and […]
Story by Bernard Little Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Six Walter Reed health care providers and the administrative staff of the Radiation Therapy clinic earned recognition in the Defense Health Agency’s (DHA) Joint Outpatient Experience Survey (JOES) Best of the Best report for the second quarter of 2024, recently released by Military Health System […]
Courtesy Story Defense Health Agency FALLS CHURCH, Va. – Diabetes is a common condition in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 38 million American adults currently have diabetes. “Even though diabetes is common, many people don’t know about its connection to oral health,” said Douglas Elsesser, a […]