The Medical Surveillance Monthly Report, a peer-reviewed journal launched in 1995, is the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Division's flagship publication. The MSMR provides monthly evidence-based estimates of the incidence, distribution, impact, and trends of health-related conditions among service members.

MSMR publishes a quarterly report on reportable medical events among both active component service members as well as their beneficiaries who receive care through the Military Health System.

This annual report summarizes the numbers, types, and incidence rates of mental health disorder diagnoses among U.S. active component service members from 2021 through 2025.

This study analyzed the genetics of circulating influenza viruses during the 2025-2026 influenza season to better understand antigenic drift and inform future influenza prevention efforts.

This study characterized chronic insomnia disorder, utilizing data from the Defense Medical Surveillance System, to identify incident cases of chronic insomnia from 2014 through 2023 among U.S. active component service members.

This retrospective cohort study evaluated trends in postpartum depression and postpartum anxiety diagnoses among 138,588 active component service women with live infant births from 2010 through 2024.

This brief annual summary presents trends in telehealth service use among members of the active component of the U.S. Armed Forces, using Defense Medical Surveillance System (DMSS) outpatient and demographic records from January 2021 through December 2025 and identifies the 10 most frequent diagnoses addressed via telehealth.

This annual summary quantifies the impacts of various illnesses and injuries among members of the active component of the U.S. Coast Guard in 2025, employing the same disease classification system and morbidity burden measures as in the general active component burden analysis report.

This annual summary documents the nature, numbers, and trends of conditions of medical evacuations from U.S. Africa Command, U.S. Central Command, U.S. Pacific Command, and U.S. Southern Command in 2025, with comparisons to the prior four years.

This annual summary utilizes data from the Theater Medical Data Store (TMDS) to document service member health care encounters during deployments to four theaters of operation, U.S. Africa Command, U.S. Central Command, U.S. Pacific Command, and U.S. Southern Command, where large concentrations of U.S. service members are deployed without access to ...

This annual summary documents the frequencies, rates, trends, and distributions of hospitalizations, or inpatient care, among members of the active component of the U.S. Armed Forces, based on standardized records from U.S. military and civilian medical facilities worldwide.

This annual summary quantifies the impacts of various illnesses and injuries among members of the active component of the U.S. Armed Forces, using a disease classification system and morbidity burden measures derived from the Global Burden of Disease Study.

This brief annual summary documents the frequencies, rates, trends, and distributions of various illnesses and injuries among members of the reserve component of Coast Guard, based on standardized records from U.S. military and civilian medical facilities worldwide.