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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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Sept. 1, 2025

Absolute and relative morbidity burdens attributable to various illnesses and injuries among active component members of the U.S. Coast Guard, 2024

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

Absolute and relative morbidity burdens attributable to various illnesses and injuries among active component members of the U.S. Armed Forces, 2024

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

Absolute and relative morbidity burdens attributable to various illnesses and injuries among non-service member beneficiaries of the Military Health System, 2024

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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May 1, 2025

Update: Infertility Among Active Component Service Women, U.S. Armed Forces, 2019–2023

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

Trends of Sepsis Hospitalizations Among Female Active Component U.S. Service Members, 2011–2022

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

External Cause Coding of Injury Encounters in the Military Health System Among Active Component U.S. Service Members, 2016–2019

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

Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 and Kidney Events in U.S. Active Component Service Members, March 1, 2020–September 30, 2022

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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