For a quarter of a century, the Alexander T. Augusta Military Medical Center’s Warfighter Refractive Eye Surgery Program and Research Center has stood at the forefront of enhancing vision and optimizing the operational effectiveness of active duty military service members. As one of 26 centers under the Department of Defense, the center has enabled ...

The Army Public Health Nursing team of the Fort Cavazos Department of Public Health and Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center is working hard to raise awareness to support the prevention and spread of diseases like measles and provide the Central Texas community with critical information for protection.

As efforts in the Arctic region continues to accelerate, senior leaders need to be confident that warfighters under their command will be able to operate at peak effectiveness for long periods in extreme cold. That’s why experts in nutrition, physical performance, and extreme environments from the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine ...

Service members are often in danger of experiencing cold weather-related injuries because of cold and wet conditions present during various training and operational activities.

As the new year begins, soldiers, their families and U.S. Army civilians have a variety of tools and programs available to support their overall well-being. From holistic health and fitness initiatives to spiritual readiness resources, free counseling, sleep assistance, and family support programs, the U.S. Army is committed to fostering resilience ...

Several years ago, I was stationed in Colorado. I’d never snow skied, but after my first initiation-by-fire trip, I was feeling comfortable and actually considered myself a somewhat fearless skier. I would go hard and fast until I hit something or just fell. Ski equipment would scatter from where I fell to where I slid to a stop—meaning I spent a lot ...

The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and the Smithsonian hosted the 3rd annual One Health Research Symposium on Nov. 22 at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center.

Prolonged care, degraded medical evacuation capability, and overstretched lines of communication during large-scale combat operations could increase the prevalence of disease-related injury and death among warfighters. These risks are what the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command's Military Infectious Diseases Research Program is working ...

While out on a hike with her daughter, Robin Campbell, a military spouse, experienced what she calls her “aha moment.” “I was struggling, and my daughter looked down at me with such pity in her eyes.” Campbell then vowed to get healthy.

The strength of Naval Health Clinic Cherry Point is in the Physical Therapy Department.

The job of safeguarding the health of U.S. service members requires not just health care at the time of injury and sickness, but a vast suite of often unseen work to determine what illnesses service members might encounter, and to develop the countermeasures for an ever-evolving landscape of health risks that face the world.

As much of the U.S. blistered under a summer sun, temperatures hovered near – and over - triple digits for much of the long Fourth of July weekend in the Pacific Northwest, Naval Hospital Bremerton.

“I didn’t think there was too much wrong. I low-crawled away from my motorcycle because I saw the bike smoking, and then I realized I couldn’t feel my legs.” Retired Army Sgt. Justin Mathers recalls his road to this year's Department of Defense Warrior Games, which started at the Fort Liberty Soldier Recovery Unit after a bad motorcycle accident. “I ...

Representatives from the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command’s Medical Technology Transfer Office showcased new biomedical technologies available for commercial licensing and discussed collaborative opportunities with biotechnology industry representatives from around the world at the Biotechnology Innovation Organization’s annual ...

A Public Health Command Europe Director of Environmental Health Sciences was recently inducted into the Order of Military Medical Merit for his accomplishments during his career.