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DHA Public Health Launches MilTICK SURE Path: Surveillance for Understudied, Rare Emerging Pathogens
The MilTICK program is expanding its disease surveillance to include deadly emerging pathogens. MilTICK SURE Path is a critical tool for defense public health entomology and public health officials in tracking emerging disease threats.
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The Military Health System is an interconnected network of service members whose mission is to support the lives and families of those who support our country. Everyday in the MHS advancements are made in the lab, in the field, and here at home. These are just a few articles highlighting those accomplishments that don't always make it to the front page of local papers.
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U.S. Army Corps nurses played a pivotal role in the June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion of Normandy, France, the largest sea, air, and land invasion in history. Eighty years ago, the allied forces, including nearly 160,000 American, British, and Canadian service members, landed on the beaches at Normandy and began pushing inland. Nurses were deployed soon after to set up field hospitals and treat injured soldiers.
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An unarmed medic’s courageous actions on D-Day—helped save the lives of hundreds of soldiers.
FALLS CHURCH, Virginia – The Defense Health Agency announced that TRICARE beneficiaries in Corral County, California, may receive emergency prescription refills now through June 13, 2024, due to the Corral Fire.
Do you often make trips to the pharmacy to pick up your prescriptions? If you have TRICARE For Life, you can switch to TRICARE Pharmacy Home Delivery to get your medications delivered right to your home.
Human connection is at the core of U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Eveline Yao’s 29-year career in service, a journey that began like many others—in a recruiting center, with a fresh outlook on life, and an openness for new experiences.
Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory Regional Hearing Conservation Program was selected as a 2024 Dr. Delores M. Etter Top Scientists and Engineers Team awardee on May 6, 2024.
The Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton directorate of nursing services held a skills-a-thon in the multi-service ward during the week of May 20, 2024.
Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune hosted a Change of Command and Directorship ceremony on May 21, 2024, at Marston Pavilion aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune.
A midweek morning suddenly exploded into a training drill at Naval Hospital Bremerton.
The new Joint Patient Safety Reporting application, a collaborative Defense Health Agency and Veterans Health Administration effort, standardizes the process for medical teams to identify and document medical and dental errors, near-miss events, and close calls that may occur within their facilities.
Vision and hearing heath are crucial to mission readiness and success, both on and off duty.
This issue of MSMR presents the latest summary of Reportable Medical Events at Military Health System facilities through week 18 of 2024, ending May 4, 2024.
This report summarizes incidence rates and trends of sexually transmitted infections from 2015 through 2023 among active component service members of the U.S. Armed Forces. The data compiled for this report are derived from the medical surveillance of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis as nationally notifiable diseases. Case data for two additional STIs, human papilloma virus and genital herpes simplex virus, are also presented.
The U.S. Coast Guard is the only military service operating outside the authority of the Department of Defense. Coast Guard personnel are eligible to use DOD health care facilities, but as many service members are not stationed near a DOD installation, the Coast Guard operates primary care clinics in areas with sufficiently large Coast Guard populations. MSMR’s annual burden of disease reports are designed to provide accurate estimations of the general health status of U.S. military personnel, for prioritization of effective interventions with measurable impacts on force readiness.
Ambulatory visits of U.S. service members in fixed military and non-military (reimbursed through the Military Health System) hospitals and clinics are documented by standardized records routinely archived for health surveillance purposes in the Defense Medical Surveillance System. This report documents the frequencies, rates, trends, and characteristics of ambulatory health care visits in 2023 of active component members of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Space Force. Ambulatory visits not routinely and completely documented within fixed military and non-military hospitals and clinics (e.g., during deployments, field training exercises, or at sea) are not included in this analysis.
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