This annual update provides more recent data on the incidence of exertional rhabdomyolysis, a pathologic muscle breakdown associated with strenuous physical activity.

This annual update provides more recent data on the incidence of exertional hyponatremia, a condition in which water and electrolytes lost during or after heavy exertion are replaced only by water, which can lead to death or serious morbidity if left untreated.

Since 2001, MSMR has published regular updates on the incidence of heat illness among U.S. active component service members. This update presents summaries of heat stroke and heat exhaustion case counts, incidence rates, and locations between 2020 and 2024.

In today's fast-paced world, where constant busyness is the norm, making time for personal well-being often falls to the bottom of the priority list and is treated as an afterthought. However, self-care is not simply about indulgence—it is a vital component of maintaining balance between life’s responsibilities and personal health.

In a significant step to enhance operational readiness, Naval Medical Readiness Training Command Fort Belvoir recently conducted its inaugural Field Training Exercise, projecting a critical focus on combat casualty care and the rapid deployment to field medical facilities.

This spring, the New Hampshire Army National Guard Medical Readiness Detachment took the lead on a groundbreaking joint-service humanitarian mission, Operation Arctic Care 2025, delivering critical health services to some of the most remote and isolated communities in Arctic Alaska.

Recognizing a hazard that needs to be monitored is nothing new to those in the public health field because that’s what they do--identify, assess and control risks to protect population health, from infectious diseases and environmental exposures to occupational threats. The goal? To make operations safer, smarter, and to preserve readiness.

The Department of Defense's Warfighter Brain Health Initiative aims to identify changes in cognitive performance to provide an opportunity for interventions to restore deficits and enhance cognition or "thinking skills."

The Landstuhl Regional Medical Center Blood Services Center partnered with the 86th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, May 14-15, to provide real and simulated blood products in support of the Defender Europe 25 Exercise.

Expeditionary medical teams play a dual role—as caregivers and as guardians of their own wellness with mental health as a core component of combat readiness, especially within expeditionary medicine.

Pioneering research conducted at the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research may soon enable care providers to assess the risk of a patient more quickly and accurately using data collected from ordinary digital cameras. Imaging technology stemming from this research aims to improve the survivability of combat casualties.

In a message announcing promotions to the permanent grade of captain, Secretary of the Navy John C. Phelan stated, “I am pleased to announce the following staff corps officers on the active-duty list for promotion.” Naval Medical Readiness Logistics Command’s executive officer, U.S. Navy Cmdr. Olusegun A. Olabode was on that list.

U.S. Army Spc. Jordan Bowman never expected that a fear he carried since childhood would be the key to unlocking a journey of self-discovery, strength and purpose.

The Navy and Marine Corps Force Health Protection Command plays a critical role in the biomedical field, an interdisciplinary area that applies the principals of biology, medicine, and engineering to develop technologies, treatments, and innovations that improve healthcare diagnostics, and patient outcomes.

“Occupational Therapy heals the body, mind, and spirit,” and “We may not have it all together, but together, we have it all,” are messages on two well-crafted wooden signs that hang in Walter Reed’s Occupational Therapy Outpatient Clinic.