Dr. Stephen Ferrara reflects on the Military Health System’s successes in 2025 and reinforces the critical role of medical support to warfighters to increase Joint Force readiness. Ferrara was the acting assistant secretary of war for health affairs from Jan. 20, 2025, to Jan. 12, 2026, and now serves as the principal deputy assistant secretary of war

Keith Bass, a retired U.S. Navy commander and health care leader, was sworn in Jan. 12, 2026, as the assistant secretary of war for health affairs.

The Bayne-Jones Army Community Hospital, a military treatment facility, has been named a 2025 Leapfrog Top Rural Hospital, marking the fourth consecutive year the hospital has earned national recognition for excellence in patient safety and quality of care, according to The Leapfrog Group.

For Sarah Thompson, a future with less pain felt like distant hope. Suffering from spondylolisthesis, a painful slippage of a vertebral body, Thompson endured chronic back pain, severe radiating leg pain, and weakness in her foot.

The U.S. Air Force Surgeon General’s Space Force Medical Operations Directorate is directing its focus in 2026 on its most vital component: the medical experts who support the Guardian warfighter.

As cold and flu season progresses across the Midwest, Munson Army Health Center encourages service members, families, retirees, and federal employees to join in a proactive effort to reduce illness and strengthen community readiness.

CDC advisories regarding mosquito-borne disease outbreaks underscore the critical need for surveillance, education, and prevention to protect deployed service members.

The Tri-Service Optician School, a directorate of the Naval Medical Leader and Professional Development Command (NMLPDC), held its graduation ceremony for class 25005 in Yorktown, Virginia on Jun. 23, 2025.

The air at Madigan Army Medical Center, usually filled with the focused calm of medical diligence, was alight with a special kind of joy as the clock struck midnight on New Year’s Day.

The Air Force announced an update to its physical fitness assessment standards and implementation timeline.

Retired Navy Captain and USU pathologist Dr. Barbara Ritschel credits the adaptability of her military training for her success in providing frontline medical care to international visitors during a humanitarian mission with the Order of Malta.

Serving 9.5 million beneficiaries, the Department of War’s sole Medical Genetics Center laboratory, hosted on Keesler, supports military medical facilities around the globe with centralized testing and consultative service.

Navy Medicine conducted its first pilot test of the Operational Medicine Care Delivery Platform aboard the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Carney to bring modern, seamless patient care to service members aboard ships, Dec. 1-12.

Ebola first appeared in 1976 during two outbreaks in Central Africa. The first recognized outbreak occurred in Yambuku, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). A total of 318 people became sick, and 280 died.

Airmen assigned to the 449th Air Expeditionary Group, in conjunction with Army, Marine Corps and Navy partners, conducted readiness training at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, during Exercise Pale Serpent, Dec. 26–29, 2025.