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Limb Salvage, Reconstruction, Restoration Care are at the Core of Provider Training
Extremity Trauma and Amputation Center of Excellence hosts monthly education series for providers, with next one on April 24, 2024.
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An overview of the TRICARE pharmacy benefit and the beneficiary formulary change communication process over the last five years.
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For military families, summer can be a time of big changes due to permanent change of station (PCS) season. When moving, it helps to make a list of items you want to pack up and move with you. Fortunately, you don’t have to worry about losing your TRICARE coverage during your move.
A married couple proved the old adage “stronger together” when they successfully completed the Uniformed Services University’s Enlisted to Medical School Preparatory Program, getting one step closer to their dreams of becoming military physicians.
Ticks are always out there ready to feed on you. Protect yourself and your family year round with these tips.
The Defense Health Agency (DHA) announced that TRICARE beneficiaries in Tennessee’s Cumberland and Fentress counties may receive emergency prescription refills now through June 22 due to storm damage.
Summer is a time for having fun outdoors. Unfortunately, you and your family aren’t the only ones having fun outside. Bugs—and bug bites—increase dramatically in the summer months. Although most bug bites are harmless, some bugs can spread dangerous diseases. For example, mosquitos can carry malaria, West Nile Virus, Zika, dengue, and chikungunya, while ticks carry Lyme and other diseases. So, it’s important to learn how to protect yourself.
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center wrapped up Cancer Survivorship Days event, a two-day celebration of life for cancer survivors and their families. The event is in recognition of the 36th annual National Cancer Survivors Day held on June 4, and was held again for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to the DHA, everyone is vulnerable to diseases spread by infected insects such as mosquitoes, ticks, and fleas, also called vectors. Find out how you and you family can learn more about these pest as part of DHA's Bug Week celebration. And also get some great travel tips to keep your summer vacation pest-free.
No one wants to find more than raisins in their bran cereal, so Army public health and veterinary personnel are on the job to protect your food.
A recent study conducted by biologists who manage the Department of Defense Military Tick Identification/Infection Confirmation Kit, or MilTICK, program, found that ticks submitted to the program by service members wearing permethrin-treated uniforms were significantly less likely to have become engorged.
The Defense Health Agency (DHA) announced that TRICARE beneficiaries in Burlington County, New Jersey may receive emergency prescription refills now through July 10 due to storm damage.
When faced with a second cancer diagnosis in eight years, U.S. Army Sgt. Dalton Apodaca says his faith is guiding him through once again. “A man will pick his path, but God will direct his steps,” he said with confidence. He uses adaptive sports to improve his quality of life, and his favorite sport to compete in is cycling.
On the morning of June 6, 1944, Navy physician Lt. (j.g.) Frank Ramsey, Jr., and Pharmacist’s Mate Third Class Byron Dary landed on Omaha Beach with the 6th Naval Beach Battalion. Upon hitting the beach, the physician and hospital corpsman rushed to the aid of wounded U.S. Army personnel lying near a burning half-track. In minutes, the vehicle exploded spraying shrapnel across the battlefield and taking Ramsey out of the fight.
Air Force Maj. Elizabeth Foley, an entomologist and bug expert, is chief of the force health branch at the U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. In an interview for Bug Week 2023, happening June 10-17, Foley described the role of entomologists across the Military Health System as they work to control diseases carried by bugs, or vectors, that can be transmitted to humans. The entomologists’ work ensures readiness of the military force.
Tick bites are one of the first things unit commanders should check for in field locations.
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