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Health Care Access in Japan: DOD Medical Leader Conducts Listening Tour at U.S. Bases to Better Understand Successes and Challenges
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Service Policy and Oversight visited Misawa Air Base, Camp Foster, and Commander, Fleet Activities Yokosuka to meet with installation and military hospital and clinic leadership and staff from April 7 to 11, 2025.
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The Military Health System is an interconnected network of service members whose mission is to support the lives and families of those who support our country. Everyday in the MHS advancements are made in the lab, in the field, and here at home. These are just a few articles highlighting those accomplishments that don't always make it to the front page of local papers.
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Ticks are always out there ready to feed on you. Protect yourself and your family year round with these tips.
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center wrapped up Cancer Survivorship Days event, a two-day celebration of life for cancer survivors and their families. The event is in recognition of the 36th annual National Cancer Survivors Day held on June 4, and was held again for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to the DHA, everyone is vulnerable to diseases spread by infected insects such as mosquitoes, ticks, and fleas, also called vectors. Find out how you and you family can learn more about these pest as part of DHA's Bug Week celebration. And also get some great travel tips to keep your summer vacation pest-free.
A recent study conducted by biologists who manage the Department of Defense Military Tick Identification/Infection Confirmation Kit, or MilTICK, program, found that ticks submitted to the program by service members wearing permethrin-treated uniforms were significantly less likely to have become engorged.
No one wants to find more than raisins in their bran cereal, so Army public health and veterinary personnel are on the job to protect your food.
The Defense Health Agency (DHA) announced that TRICARE beneficiaries in Burlington County, New Jersey may receive emergency prescription refills now through July 10 due to storm damage.
On the morning of June 6, 1944, Navy physician Lt. (j.g.) Frank Ramsey, Jr., and Pharmacist’s Mate Third Class Byron Dary landed on Omaha Beach with the 6th Naval Beach Battalion. Upon hitting the beach, the physician and hospital corpsman rushed to the aid of wounded U.S. Army personnel lying near a burning half-track. In minutes, the vehicle exploded spraying shrapnel across the battlefield and taking Ramsey out of the fight.
When faced with a second cancer diagnosis in eight years, U.S. Army Sgt. Dalton Apodaca says his faith is guiding him through once again. “A man will pick his path, but God will direct his steps,” he said with confidence. He uses adaptive sports to improve his quality of life, and his favorite sport to compete in is cycling.
Ask the Doc on a service member who may have an eating disorder or disordered eating and may benefit from mental health and nutrition counseling.
Air Force Maj. Elizabeth Foley, an entomologist and bug expert, is chief of the force health branch at the U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. In an interview for Bug Week 2023, happening June 10-17, Foley described the role of entomologists across the Military Health System as they work to control diseases carried by bugs, or vectors, that can be transmitted to humans. The entomologists’ work ensures readiness of the military force.
Tick bites are one of the first things unit commanders should check for in field locations.
The TriService Nursing Research Program held its annual Research and Evidence-Based Dissemination Course from April 4-6, 2023 in San Antonio, Texas. This course included keynote lectures by military leaders and nationally known clinical experts, along with plenary sessions featuring research and presentations from tri-service active, National Guard and Reserve, and retired military nurse scientists and researchers.
As summer travel picks up for many military families, due to vacations or a scheduled permanent change of station, or PCS, move, there is one passenger you don’t want hitching a ride with you or your family - bed bugs! Our DOD expert has some travel tips to prevent vacation infestation.
Members of the National Guard provided medical, dental, and optometry services to the Nez Perce Tribe and surrounding community of Lapwai, Idaho, May 16-18. The unit also provided behavioral health services to members of the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes and the surrounding community of Duck Valley, Nevada May 22-25.
Brooke Army Medical Center commissioned a new four-legged staff member to the rank of Air Force major during a ceremony held June 6.
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