A simulated M-4 rifle charging handle fashioned by an occupational therapy team at Blanchfield Army Community Hospital and refined by Fort Campbell’s EagleWerx Applied Tactical Innovation Center may gain broader use in other military hospitals and clinics after a senior Defense Health Agency official saw it demonstrated.

Team members with the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity completed a field operational assessment on Nov. 5, 2023, at Fort Liberty, North Carolina, testing the field-worthiness of the Prolonged Care Augmentation Detachment medical equipment set.

The 75th Medical Group’s Pharmacy Flight can now fill prescriptions faster with the help of a new automated high-speed medication filling robot called the Parata Max 2.

Charged with providing radiologic imaging for 265,000 beneficiaries, managing a $3.5 million archival system for eight telehealth sites across the Department of Defense, all while training students to operate a $2 million computed tomography machine, U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Kendra Ward is no stranger to the fast-paced world of military health care.

Brooke Army Medical Center has once again been named one of the nation’s “Most Wired” medical facilities for its innovative use of health information technology by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives.

The U.S. Navy deployed the first En-Route Care System medical expeditionary capability aboard the Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group during a regularly scheduled deployment, Oct. 14.

Team members with the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity joined some 30,000 attendees and exhibitors during the final day of the Association of the United States Army annual meeting and exhibition yesterday in Washington.

Team members with the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity are supporting the U.S. Army-wide Best Squad Competition this week and next, providing real-time health and performance data to the competition’s supervisors at Fort Stewart, Georgia.

Uniformed Services University researchers have developed a potential cure for rabies infection, offering hope for an effective treatment for human rabies.

On September 21, 1947, a man was admitted to the Al-Qurayn (El Korein) Hospital in Egypt vomiting profusely and suffering severe diarrhea. Within hours, he was dead. The attending physician on duty first suspected food poisoning before 11 additional patients were admitted with identical symptoms. Their diagnosis was cholera, a deadly bacterial disease ...

As the Defense Health Agency and Department of Defense military medical treatment facilities continue their rollout of the new MHS GENESIS system across the globe, medical services, to include access to care and pharmacy, will be temporarily constrained.

A mobile medical documentation tool developed by U.S. Air Force Laboratory researchers was selected as the joint integrated electronic health record for point-of-injury and en route care by the Joint Operational Medicine Information Systems.

When patients come to Womack Army Medical Center with life-threatening injuries, the trauma team comes together with the best lifesaving techniques. Interventional radiology continues to play an important role in saving lives at this level III trauma center.

At the intersection of military medical technology development, academia, and industry sits the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity. No other venue gives so bright a spotlight on that convergence than the recent Military Health System Research Symposium, hosted by the Defense Health Agency each year in Kissimmee, Florida.

Kidney failure inpatients at Brooke Army Medical Center now have a second option for dialysis. Peritoneal dialysis helps patients maintain their residual renal function longer and have fewer dietary restrictions than with hemodialysis.