To ensure the greatest outreach, the military often locates its recruiters and their families close to communities with eligible youth, but far from the peer support and healthcare resources of an installation.

Lt. Cmdr. Brendan Good, a native of Talent, Ore., and member of the staff at Naval Medical Forces Pacific (NMFP) was recently recognized by the U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery as the Health Facility Planning and Project Officer of the year for 2023.

Four health care professionals from Defense Health Network Central will be recognized for their extensive contributions to military health care during the Annual Meeting of AMSUS, The Society of Federal Health Professionals, on Feb. 12, 2024.

The transition of Naval Medical Center San Diego into the Military Health System offers modernization and innovation opportunities in the delivery of health care.

Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton celebrated 10 years of operation in their newest facility and location on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024, with the Pacific Ocean as the backdrop.

A new tool being developed by the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command’s DOD Blast Injury Research Coordinating Office will help Service Members protect themselves from the effects of high-pressure shock waves created by heavy weapons when they are fired during training.

The Army Nurse Corps remains strong and continues excellence in providing service with distinction and healing with compassion. Blanchfield Army Community Hospital’s Deputy Commander for Nursing, Col. Richard Clark, believes this year’s Army Nurse Corps Anniversary theme, “123 years of serving with distinction and healing with compassion,” highlights ...

Navy Medicine supports the force's lethality by maintaining state-of-the-art medical and operational readiness. One way they do it is with the Military Tropical Medicine (MTM) course.

U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Scott Dingle relinquished his position as the U.S. Army Surgeon General and Commanding General of the U.S. Army Medical Command to U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Mary Izaguirre in a ceremony on Jan. 25, 2024.

A delegation of Nurses led by CAPT Rodolfo (Rudy) Sanjuan and other staff from U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa visited a local Nursing School. Sanjuan spoke with Reiko Namizato, Director of Hokubu Nursing School, Noriaki Yonaha, Dean of Student Affairs, and other staff from The Hokubu Nursing School.

Top military health researchers published a groundbreaking study indicating patients treated within the Military Health System received earlier cancer diagnoses than privately insured or Medicaid patients. Aligning with the White House’s Cancer Moonshot initiative—which aims to prevent more than 4 million cancer deaths by 2047—the study shows that a ...

This Letter to the Editor is in response to the November 2023 MSMR article, “Update: Cold Weather Injuries Among the Active and Reserve Components of the U.S. Armed Forced, July 2018-June 2023.”

This report is an update of a 2011 MSMR report that provides numbers, rates, and demographic characteristics of uterine fibroids as well as uterine fibroid-related health care among female service members in the active component of the U.S. Armed Forces.

This report summarizes 2003 to 2021 survey administration and content of the U.S. Marine Recruit Assessment Program, a cross-sectional, baseline survey of U.S. Marine recruits that is administered at Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego.

This Surveillance Snapshot provides the first summary of the demographic composition of active component Space Force service members, as of November 2023.