This report summarizes the numbers, types and incidence rates of mental health disorder diagnoses among U.S. active component service members over a five-year surveillance period.

This report describes the seven-year prevalence of five perinatal mental health disorders among U.S. active duty service women: trauma and stressor-related disorders, anxiety and panic disorders, depressive disorders, suicidal ideation or attempt, and eating disorders.

Since 2004, MSMR has published annual updates on the incidence of cold weather injuries affecting U.S. Armed Forces members for the five most recent cold seasons. This 2025 report discusses the occurrence of frostbite, immersion hand and foot injuries, hypothermia, as well as “other specified and unspecified effects of reduced temperature.”

This report examines trends in the prevalence of obesity over the past decade among U.S. active component service members and civilians, ages 17-62 years, overall and by sex, comparing age-standardized distributions of body mass index.

Each month, MSMR publishes a reportable medical event update for active component service members as well as Military Health System beneficiaries, documented through the Disease Reporting System internet.

Air Force Capt. (Dr.) Lindsay Slimski has never let life’s challenges stop her from achieving her dreams of pursuing medicine. She shares her story of resilience in the face of challenges, and her unique approach to becoming a military doctor through the Uniformed Services University’s Enlisted to Medical Degree Preparatory Program.

Evans Army Community Hospital received the highest score amongst all military healthcare facilities for the third consecutive time and an “A” rating for the fourth straight time in the Leapfrog Group’s fall 2025 assessment released Nov. 13, 2025.

Evans Army Community Hospital hosted its quarterly Daisy Award Ceremony on Friday, Nov. 21, 2025, to recognize nurses for the kind, compassionate care they provide to patients. Three individual winners were selected from among 55 nominees.

Over the last four years, research psychologists at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research have been developing a new training to proactively address moral injury in service members.

The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research is leveraging advanced cryo-electron microscopy capabilities and expertise cultivated in-house to develop next-generation prevention and therapeutic medical countermeasures to protect the health of U.S. service members and ensure Force Readiness and Resiliency.

Munson Army Health Center continues to prepare its community for the upcoming flu season.

National Radiologic Technology Week wrapped up in early November Naval Hospital Bremerton with commemorating the essential contributions of military radiologic technologists while marking the 130th anniversary of Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen’s X-ray discovery.

Medical Readiness Command, Europe significantly advanced medical combat readiness and solidified partnerships with allied and host-nation forces throughout 2025, officials announced. The command spearheaded multiple initiatives across Europe and Africa, ensuring U.S. Army medical assets are prepared for large-scale combat operations while ...

On November 20, 2025, Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune's new Nurse Residency Program graduated its first cohort of nurses. The six-month program expounds upon the Nurse Internship Program, which was originally 6-weeks.

Airmen from the 86th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron configured a C-130H Hercules aircraft into a mission-ready aeromedical evacuation layout Nov. 20, enabling a NATO medical evaluation course to conduct its culminating mock assessment.