Aboard Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, Navy Lieutenant Joelle Borja and Courtney Hayes share the same goal, ensuring the mental wellness and deployment suitability of Marines and Sailors.

Since the commencement of the partnership between Naval Hospital Jacksonville and the Department of Veterans Affairs late last summer, a groundbreaking milestone took place. For the first time ever, a VA surgeon operated on a patient in NH Jacksonville, which has been a military treatment facility for nearly 85 years. Dr. Mark Gould, a retired Navy ...

During Patient Safety Awareness Week, staff across U.S. Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command, Guantanamo Bay were recognized for advancing a culture of safety aligned with Defense Health Agency priorities and Navy Medicine lines of effort focused on readiness, quality, and high reliability.

In his book “What It Is Like to Go to War”, American author and Vietnam War veteran Karl Marlantes reflects on the lasting moral and spiritual impact of combat. “Combat is a lot of things, but one of them is that it puts you in a different relationship with eternity … it changes … your sense of what matters and your understanding of what it means to ...

Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Martin E. Romero Alvarez, a native of Dalton, Ga., is assigned to Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Rota, where he works in telemedicine, supporting remote patient care and medical coordination for Sailors and Marines across the region.

As operational requirements continue to expand across the Fleet and joint force, the Navy Medicine Enterprise is facing an increasing need for medical logistics officers according to Cmdr. Rannie Gibson, assistant specialty leader for Navy medical logisticians and assigned to Naval Medical Forces Atlantic’s N4 Directorate, during the 2026 Navy ...

Researchers with Navy Medicine Research & Development’s Naval Health Research Center (NHRC), showcased innovative fatigue-monitoring technology during the Department of War Lab Day at the Pentagon on May 6.

Navy Medicine is modernizing expeditionary medical logistics to support the Fleet and Marine Corps in contested environments. During the 2026 Navy Medicine Logistics Symposium, leaders focused on sustaining scalable, modular systems designed to handle prolonged care and delayed patient movement.

After 31 years of military service, U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Sean T. Collins, Air National Guard assistant to the Surgeon General and director of Space Force Medical Operations Directorate, retired during a ceremony at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Washington, D.C., May 1, 2026.

What started out as lighthearted recognition idea became a rinsing reality for Naval Hospital Bremerton’s Sterile Processing Department.

Capt. Elizabeth Adriano, director of Naval Medical Center San Diego, has been honored by the American Hospital Association with the 2026 Federal Health Care Executive Award for Excellence.

Blast exposure is unavoidable for most Marines. One doctor in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina is working to outpace blast exposure before it leads to irreparable hearing loss.

For today’s Sailors the summons from their command’s urinalysis coordinator is as routine as morning colors: "The following personnel have been selected by the Navy Drug Screening Program to provide a sample...."

Retired U.S. Air Force Col. Regina C. Aune built a career defined by courage, leadership, and lasting contributions to military medicine. A former chair of the Department of Nursing Research and Commandant of the Daniel K. Inouye Graduate School of Nursing, and Deputy Brigade Commander at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Aune ...

As Airmen and Guardians seek to resolve their concerns, many seek their installation’s mental health clinic for support. Whether its vectoring individuals to nonclinical care options to address daily stressors or tailoring clinical treatment plans to the individual’s needs, mental health professionals are integral in developing and sustaining a ...