Each month, MSMR publishes a reportable medical event update for active component service members as well as Military Health System beneficiaries, documented through the Disease Reporting System internet.

Air Force Capt. (Dr.) Lindsay Slimski has never let life’s challenges stop her from achieving her dreams of pursuing medicine. She shares her story of resilience in the face of challenges, and her unique approach to becoming a military doctor through the Uniformed Services University’s Enlisted to Medical Degree Preparatory Program.

Evans Army Community Hospital received the highest score amongst all military healthcare facilities for the third consecutive time and an “A” rating for the fourth straight time in the Leapfrog Group’s fall 2025 assessment released Nov. 13, 2025.

Evans Army Community Hospital hosted its quarterly Daisy Award Ceremony on Friday, Nov. 21, 2025, to recognize nurses for the kind, compassionate care they provide to patients. Three individual winners were selected from among 55 nominees.

Over the last four years, research psychologists at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research have been developing a new training to proactively address moral injury in service members.

The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research is leveraging advanced cryo-electron microscopy capabilities and expertise cultivated in-house to develop next-generation prevention and therapeutic medical countermeasures to protect the health of U.S. service members and ensure Force Readiness and Resiliency.

Munson Army Health Center continues to prepare its community for the upcoming flu season.

National Radiologic Technology Week wrapped up in early November Naval Hospital Bremerton with commemorating the essential contributions of military radiologic technologists while marking the 130th anniversary of Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen’s X-ray discovery.

Medical Readiness Command, Europe significantly advanced medical combat readiness and solidified partnerships with allied and host-nation forces throughout 2025, officials announced. The command spearheaded multiple initiatives across Europe and Africa, ensuring U.S. Army medical assets are prepared for large-scale combat operations while ...

On November 20, 2025, Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune's new Nurse Residency Program graduated its first cohort of nurses. The six-month program expounds upon the Nurse Internship Program, which was originally 6-weeks.

Airmen from the 86th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron configured a C-130H Hercules aircraft into a mission-ready aeromedical evacuation layout Nov. 20, enabling a NATO medical evaluation course to conduct its culminating mock assessment.

Barksdale Air Force Base is on track to establish a certified calibration lab for Ludlum radiation meters, making it the only base in Air Force Global Strike Command with this capability and one of two across the Department of War.

In a demonstration of readiness extending beyond the battlefield, the 23d Medical Group conducted a large-scale public health exercise Nov. 18, 2025, at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia.

The 19th Expeditionary Sustainment Command opened the Army's first autonomous dining facility, Nov. 12, in South Korea, to explore how automation can improve food service operations. The pilot dining facility, called Market 19, combines automated food preparation, cooking and serving with soldier oversight.

For many TRICARE beneficiaries, TRICARE Open Season is the time to make a change to your health plan. As outlined in the TRICARE Choices in the United States Handbook, open season is the annual period when you can enroll or change your health care plan for the following year. This year, TRICARE Open Season began Nov. 10 and ends Dec. 9. Changes you ...