Sailors from Expeditionary Medical Facility 150 Alpha provided the Role 3 medical capability during the 1st Medical Battalion, 1st Marine Logistics Group, Marine Corps Combat Readiness Evaluation from Feb. 26 through March 1, 2024, aboard Naval Expeditionary Medical Training Institute.

4-H Victory Challenge Camp in Anacoco, Louisiana educates the next generation about careers in the military.

In an effort to recognizing the versatile and multi-talented aspect of dental assistants, Naval Medical Center San Diego celebrates Dental Assistant Recognition Week, March 3-9.

The Navy physicians and surgeons assigned to Naval Hospital Bremerton took a brief respite to recognize their Navy Medical Corps 153rd birthday, March 4, 2024.

Despite the administrative costs and inefficiencies of segregation—and facing a war on multiple fronts—the armed services did not move to integrate the hundreds of thousands of African Americans who enlisted for wartime service.

Under the amended policy, active duty service members with a qualifying illness or injury may now access this extended benefit regardless of their marital status, and they may now use donor gametes (sperm, egg, or both) and embryos, when procured at their own expense.

Evans Army Community Hospital underwent an Accreditation Assist Visit Feb. 27 through March 1, to evaluate the EACH Team’s readiness and compliance with nationally-recognized hospital standards.

Evans Army Community Hospital’s Child, Family and School Based Behavioral Health program celebrated its return to the main hospital campus with a ribbon-cutting ceremony March 4.

The annual Military Health System Excellence Awards were presented to leaders from across the MHS in a ceremony at the 2024 annual meeting of AMSUS, the Society of Federal Health Professionals, held in National Harbor, Maryland, on Feb. 15.

U.S. Navy Lt. Thomas McGlynn, a medical entomologist with the Navy Entomology Center of Excellence in Jacksonville, Florida, traveled to Naval Station Guantanamo Bay in support of Naval Hospital Guantanamo Bay Preventive Medicine, Joint Task Force Guantanamo, and U.S. Army Public Health Command East, to provide mission-critical entomological training ...

The most recent TRICARE pharmacy contract, known as TRICARE Pharmacy 5th Generation (TPharm5), started on Jan. 1, 2023. Since then, you may have experienced some enhancements to how you get your prescription drugs. In 2024, you can continue to expect improved access to pharmacy benefit services through the TRICARE Pharmacy Program.

The National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, has launched new clinical trials to evaluate emerging technologies for cancer screening. This effort is in collaboration with the Uniformed Services University through its Murtha Cancer Center Research Program.

Patient safety is the No. 1 mission when it comes to health care in the Military Health System.

Everything happens for a reason, in the opinion of U.S. Air Force 1st Lt. Ha Eun Ryoo, 90th Operational Readiness Medical Squadron public health flight commander. Which is why she believes it was no accident that she was pulling through the gate at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, at the same moment a child stopped breathing, requiring CPR to save their life.

FALLS CHURCH, Virginia – The Defense Health Agency announced that TRICARE beneficiaries in Shawnee County, Kansas, may receive emergency prescription refills now through April 4, 2024, due to the wildfire.