When My’Kia Starks brought her newborn daughter home for the first time, the joy of becoming a mother was paired with the weight of a new and unfamiliar responsibility.

Brooke Army Medical Center conducted a combined Best Medic and Best Squad Competition, Jan. 9 -12, 2026, at Fort Sam Houston and Camp Bullis, Texas.

Team members with the Operational Medical Systems Program Management Office joined dozens of U.S. Navy corpsmen and medical officers at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, this week as part of an end-user touchpoint here, Jan. 14, 2026.

To enhance each other’s capabilities to counteract emerging threats, benefiting military health as well as global health security, representatives of Japan’s National Defense Medical College met with leadership and research scientists of Naval Medical Research Unit San Antonio at the Battlefield Health and Trauma Research Institute.

Do you get care at a military hospital or clinic? Starting Jan. 20, you’ll be able to access lab results, radiology reports, pathology reports, and clinical notes immediately through the MHS GENESIS Patient Portal. MHS GENESIS will release your electronic health information the moment it enters the system.

Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) New England has been recognized for its outstanding personnel retention, earning the Fiscal Year 2025 Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) Retention Excellence Award.

More than 112 military dental practitioners, support staff and guest speakers primarily from the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force convened in Garmisch, Germany recently to promote dental readiness, obtain continuing dental education credits and promote continued partnership among NATO and Allied partners.

For one combat medic specialist at Munson Army Health Center, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, a long-held ambition is about to become a reality.

This past December, representatives of ministries of health and defense from 34 African nations and the U.S. came together in Rabat, Morocco, for the 11th African Partnership Outbreak Response Alliance Workshop, focusing on strengthening health security by operationalizing civil-military collaboration in outbreak preparedness and response.

SMART or MART is a newer treatment approach for asthma that uses a single inhaler containing both long-acting anti-inflammatory and rescue medicine.

As the sole operation of its kind in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility, the 379th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron Materiel Management Flight is responsible for the Expeditionary Theater Distribution Center, which provides gear to all U.S. branches of service within the region.

The U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa will host its Best Medic Competition, gathering 24 medical professionals from Ghana, Liberia, Italy and the United States at Caserma Del Din, Vicenza, Italy, Jan. 5-15.

Two Sailors, through their exceptional professionalism, leadership and unwavering dedication, have been recognized by the U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery as recipients of the Fiscal Year 2025 Blue Jacket of the Year and Junior Sailor of the Year awards.

Recently, experts from Naval Forces Africa/Naval Forces Europe partnered with Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Rota and Naval Station Rota conducted a Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape Phase II Reintegration Exercise.

The small, brain-shaped coin felt heavier than its size, a quiet symbol of gratitude that brought tears as she recalled its meaning. It was a gift from an Airman she once treated for lymphoma, presented to her after he not only completed treatment, but beat the cancer.