U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Matthew Case, acting surgeon general of the Navy and acting chief, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, joined more than 80 Sailors in Billings, Montana, to kick off the city’s first-ever Navy Week, Aug. 20-22.

More than 100 active-duty and Air National Guard medics from seven units trained to provide expeditionary medical care under the threat of unmanned aerial vehicles during Northern Strike 26-2 at the Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center.

Walter Reed National Military Medical Center’s Murtha Cancer Center was recently approved to deliver an advanced form of treatment for cancer. The therapy, known as Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell therapy, allows Walter Reed to treat patients with forms of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and acute lymphoblastic leukemia by reprogramming their own blood cells ...

Investigating an innovative procedure to save service members’ lives on the battlefield by controlling bleeding at or near the point of injury, Military Health System leadership recently recognized a Walter Reed National Military Medical Center general surgery resident with the Young Investigators Award.

Arleen Hidalgo Morales, of Moca, Puerto Rico, is participating in the Office of Naval Research’s Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program at Naval Medical Research Unit San Antonio.

A farewell dinner for a Navy hospital corpsman turned into a real-world emergency response Aug. 21 when 10 hospital corpsmen and several Marines rushed to the scene of a house explosion in Twentynine Palms, helping pull an injured man from a burning, collapsing home, evacuate neighboring residences and provide medical care until civilian emergency ...

Student interns with the Science and Engineering Apprenticeship Program, and college students with the Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program presented findings from their summer research at Naval Medical Research Command’s STEM expo on Aug. 14.

U.S. Airmen from the 944th Aeromedical Staging Squadron completed a two-week Medical Readiness Training Exercise in Honduras in June 2026, gaining hands-on experience providing patient care in resource-limited environments alongside U.S. and Honduran medical professionals.

The 1st Global Field Medical Laboratory, the only global expeditionary laboratory in the U.S. Army, hosted Brig. Gen. Bill O. Soliz, director of Enterprise Operations, Medical Readiness, and Training, J-3/5/7 for the Defense Health Agency, on Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, Aug. 18, 2026.

Thank you for demonstrating your resiliency and building upon that resiliency over these two days of training. Thank you for making us more resilient, and I guarantee that when we do go downrange, we will be more successful and get the job done. We will make our nation proud.” These are words spoken by Lt. Cmdr. Jeremy Sweeten, Expeditionary Medical ...

Two Airmen from the Kentucky Air National Guard’s traveled to Ecuador in April to share information about the unit’s Critical Care Air Transport Teams with their Ecuadorian colleagues.

Walking into a mental health clinic and asking for help can be difficult. Walking out without the specialty mental health appointment you expected can leave you wondering what happens next.

A former USU Summer Scholar returned as an Army officer and incoming doctoral student as the 2026 military medicine program closed.

Focused on improving pain management and avoiding substance use disorder, the National Capital Region Pain Initiative at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center recently hosted the 2026 Combined Pain Care Skills Training and SUD Symposium.

For Mikaela Altis, a physician assistant in Munson Army Health Center’s Department of Primary Care, adopting ambient listening technology has meant more eye contact with patients, more time for follow-up questions and fewer hours spent completing clinical notes after the workday ends.