The Uniformed Services University’s Musculoskeletal Injury Rehabilitation Research for Operational Readiness program recently presented the inaugural Department of Defense-wide Bone Stress Injury Symposium.

Team members with the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity are supporting the U.S. Army-wide Best Squad Competition this week and next, providing real-time health and performance data to the competition’s supervisors at Fort Stewart, Georgia.

Dressed in surgical scrubs, Nebraska Air National Guard Col. Mark Shirley looks like any other medical doctor pulling a 24-hour emergency department shift. Shirley serves as the state air surgeon where he oversees the medical support required to keep the Nebraska Air Guard’s approximately 1,000 airmen ready to support any and every federal or state ...

This article presents the 2022 results of the active surveillance program for acute respiratory disease and Group A Beta-Hemolytic Streptococcus conducted by the Defense Centers for Public Health-Aberdeen at the four Army installations responsible for basic combat training or one-station unit training. This ARD surveillance program rapidly monitors, ...

Nutritional Fitness is your ability to sustain your performance through foods, dietary supplements, and beverages in adequate quantities, quality, and proportions.

Physical Fitness is your ability to physically accomplish all aspects of your tasks while avoiding injury.

Lifestyle changes through performance medicine practices can help you live longer and be healthier.

Ask the Doc on a service member who may have an eating disorder or disordered eating and may benefit from mental health and nutrition counseling.

The U.S. Space Force is implementing a holistic health approach for uniformed Guardians, including a voluntary two-year continuous fitness assessment study to assess and validate a new fitness concept using wearable devices for the service.

This annual summary uses several health care burden measures to quantify the impacts of various illnesses and injuries in 2022 among members of the active component of the U.S. Armed Forces. Health care burden metrics include the total number of medical encounters, individuals affected, and hospital bed days.

This report documents the frequencies, rates, trends, and characteristics of ambulatory health care visits in 2022 of active component members of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps.

This report employs the same disease classification system and health care burden measures as employed in the MSMR burden analysis of the U.S. Armed Forces active component to quantify the impacts of various illnesses and injuries among members of the active component of the U.S. Coast Guard in 2022.

MSMR provides data on Reportable Medical Events within the Military Health System in every issue, listing not only list the most recent case counts but trends of incidence for the prior two months, year-to-date, and over the preceding year.

This report documents the frequencies, rates, trends, and distributions of hospitalization among active component members of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps during calendar year 2022.