The Military Health System is an interconnected network of service members whose mission is to support the lives and families of those who support our country. Everyday in the MHS advancements are made in the lab, in the field, and here at home. These are just a few articles highlighting those accomplishments that don't always make it to the front page of local papers.
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Feb. 1, 2026
This Surveillance Snapshot evaluates adherence to official guidance for disease and injury data reporting during two 2024 exercises, African Lion and Flintlock, in the U.S. Africa Command area of responsibility.
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Dec. 1, 2025
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.
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Nov. 1, 2025
This annual update summarizes incidence rates and trends of the most frequent sexually transmitted infections among U.S. active component service members: chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, human papilloma virus (HPV), and genital herpes simplex virus (HSV).
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Sept. 1, 2025
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The September 2025 MSMR presents the annual burden of morbidity issue, with data and analysis of absolute and relative morbidity burdens due to illnesses and injuries among U.S. active component service members in 2024.
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Sept. 1, 2025
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.
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Sept. 1, 2025
This annual summary report of various illnesses and injuries among members of the active component of the U.S. Armed Forces quantifies patient diagnoses and major condition categories with several health care burden measures derived from the Global Burden of Disease Study.
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Sept. 1, 2025
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.
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Sept. 1, 2025
This report documents the frequencies, rates, trends, and distributions of ambulatory, or outpatient care, visits among active component service members, based on standardized records from U.S. military and non-military medical facilities worldwide.
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Sept. 1, 2025
This report documents the frequencies, rates, trends, and distributions of hospitalizations, or inpatient care, among active component service members, based on standardized records from U.S. military and non-military medical facilities worldwide.
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May 1, 2025
This update of infertility surveillance, analysis and reporting provides more recent estimates of infertility diagnosis incidence and prevalence of among active component U.S. service women. MSMR has published the incidence and prevalence of diagnosed female infertility among active component women since 2000, with assessments of annual rates of ...
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May 1, 2025
This report on sepsis hospitalizations among service women is in response to studies of sepsis among active component U.S. military members that have shown markedly increased rates of sepsis hospitalizations, especially among women, among whom rates are higher than male service members as well as the general U.S. population.
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Feb. 1, 2025
Knowledge of injury causes is essential for prevention. This article describes causes of injury for all U.S. service members, from 2016 through 2019, and identifies variations in injury cause coding over time, and by branch of military service, type of health care visit and facility, and diagnosis category.
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Dec. 1, 2024
This study assessed the incidence and incidence rate ratio of selected kidney events among U.S. active component service members that occurred from 31 days to six months after a COVID-19 test. Early evidence suggests that COVID-19 is linked to kidney-related events in older and hospitalized patients but has not been examined among a younger, healthy ...
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Aug. 1, 2024
This study assesses associations between demographic factors and incidence of acute hip fracture and hip stress fracture, including age, race and ethnicity, branch of service, military occupation, and recruit status, as well as associations between body mass index.
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July 1, 2024
This report provides an updated summary of health care burdens among Military Health System beneficiaries including non-service member dependents during 2023.
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Last Updated: February 14, 2025