Uniformed Services University's five-year INVICTA study examines the subtle, yet significant effects of low-level blast overpressure exposure on service members’ neurological functions, including memory, gait, sensory processing, and brain health.

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.

Peace through strength—one of the Defense Department's basic tenets—is partially achieved through readiness. A ready, focused force isn't possible without the crucial medical care offered to warfighters to ensure they're equipped for any fight that might come.

Using dynamic MRI, Dr. Dzung Pham's research at USU's School of Medicine explores how skull acceleration during traumatic brain injuries affects brain deformation and injury mechanisms, aiming to improve diagnosis, treatment, and protective gear design for TBI patients.

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 ...

From bringing the current student body to more than 8,500 to contributing to a potential cure for rabies, the Uniformed Services University has worked tirelessly to foster another year of innovative learning, groundbreaking research, and numerous awards and accomplishments, said president.

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 ...

Uniformed Services University convened a Brain Health Symposium on December 5, 2024, to highlight the latest USU advancements in brain health research and its critical implications for military personnel.

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 ...

Dr. Michael Roy, professor of medicine and deputy director of the military traumatic brain injury initiative at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, has been awarded a $500,000 grant from the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine to conduct research on the effects of blast exposure among military ...

The Army has begun baseline cognitive assessments during Initial Entry Training, and all services will follow in the coming months, officials say.

When Lt. Gen. Lewis “Chesty” Puller famously quipped, “Hit hard, hit fast, hit often,” there’s a good chance he had Marine Corps mortarmen in mind.

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.