U.S. Army Staff. Sgt. Daniel Tursi and U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Victor Aguilar are the best of the best. The medics from took the stage as victors at the close of the 2024 Eighth Army’s Best Medical Competition on Camp Humphreys, South Korea, Nov. 15, 2024.

Dr. Amy Millikan Bell, Acting Deputy Director, Defense Centers of Public Health, shares her personal story of her battle with COVID-19 and urges that vaccination is the strongest tool to prevent the spread of pan-respiratory diseases and to help avoid serious illness.

The Defense Health Agency-Public Health Armed Forces Health Surveillance Division’s Global Emerging Infections Surveillance program partnered with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the release of a global emerging infectious disease supplement for the November 2024 issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases.

The chief of staff of the Air Force, U.S. Air Force Gen. David Allvin, announced U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Sean Collins as the Air Force Medical Command commander effective Sept. 24, 2024.

The Joint Base San Antonio Soldier Recovery Unit hosted its 3rd annual Adaptive Sports Camp and Local Trials, Oct. 15 – 23, 2024, at various locations on the Fort Sam Houston installation.

The Defense Department remains committed to long-term, sustained efforts to prevent suicide throughout the total force, Pentagon officials said as the department released its Annual Report on Suicide in the Military.

The stigma surrounding mental health can often keep people from seeking treatment. For some soldiers, seeking treatment for behavioral health at a soldier recovery unit feels awkward, but it shouldn’t be—according to U.S. Army Capt. Kyra Maggio, who did just that.

The National Disaster Medical System conducted a full-scale exercise on Nov. 13, 2024, Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, featuring the 155th Air Refueling Wing’s Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Enhanced Response Force Package Detachment-1. The exercise brought together local, state and federal agencies to simulate a large-scale ...

A general video to educate TRICARE-eligible beneficiaries in or moving to Japan about how to access and manage high-quality health care overseas.

FALLS CHURCH, Virginia – The Defense Health Agency announced that TRICARE beneficiaries in Washoe County, Nevada, may receive emergency prescription refills now through Nov. 22, 2024, due to the Callahan Fire.

When Information Systems Technician U.S. Navy 1st Class Maria Edwards, 41, got a stage three breast cancer diagnosis in 2022, her life was upended. The process for medical retirement from the Navy began while she underwent chemotherapy. Then another complication came up: her mother who came to Hawaii to care for Edwards, soon got her own cancer ...