Getting ready for a blood test often means fasting, but that doesn’t mean you should stop drinking water. In fact, staying hydrated is one of the best ways to prepare.

Suicide can happen quietly and sometimes it’s the people closest to us who are struggling.

The Military Health System has many resources to support your mental health. Therapy is one tool proven to work. Whether it’s in-person, virtual, or group therapy, or other tools needed during a crisis — mental health support sustains military readiness.

Naval Health Research Center is a partner with the Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program. The naval internship program places college and university students pursuing Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics careers in U.S. Navy laboratories across the country, providing students mentorship and real-world research experience.

Medical personnel from the U.S., Japan and Australia worked side by side during exercise Yama Sakura 89 to keep troops healthy and mission-ready.

More than 40 Army Reserve Soldiers of the Staten Island, New York-based Northeast Medical Area Readiness Support Group and other direct reporting units from the Army Reserve Medical Command hierarchy took part in two concurrent rotations of the annual Medical Readiness Skills Sustainment Program for the Military, in three medical centers throughout ...

Yoann Le Breton, with Naval Medical Research Command , and Evelina Angov, with the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, submitted a provisional patent application for an antimicrobial, non-antibiotic solution to wound care on July 17.

U.S. Army Program Executive Office Enterprise’s Operational Medicine Information Systems – Army developed and piloted a web-based application that eliminates key challenges associated with the deployment and maintenance of the current Health Assessment Lite Operations electronic health record platform.

“Snakes Alive!” program immerses students in the realities of snakebite prevention and treatment across the globe.

Eddie S. Cain, a native of Jacksonville, Florida, and retired U.S. Air Force veteran, has been promoted to receiving supervisor at Naval Medical Readiness Logistics Command, on Cheatham Annex, Williamsburg, Virginia.

MSMR publishes a monthly summary of reportable medical events documented in the Disease Reporting System internet by Military Health System care providers and public health officials.

This report presents an updated summary of the health care burdens documented in 2024 among non-service member beneficiaries of the Military Health System, which provides comprehensive health care to a diverse and heterogeneous population of family members and military retirees from all branches of military service.

This report quantifies the impacts of various illnesses and injuries among members of the active component of the U.S. Coast Guard in 2024, employing the same disease classification system and morbidity burden measures in the general active component burden analysis report.

This report focuses on service member health care encounters during deployment to two theaters of operations, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) and U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), where the largest concentrations of service members are deployed without access to fixed medical facilities.

This Surveillance Snapshot documents trends in telehealth service use among active component service members and identifies the 10 most frequent diagnoses addressed via telehealth, utilizing Defense Medical Surveillance System outpatient and demographic records.