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TRICARE Expands Temporary Prescription Refill Waivers to 1 Additional Tennessee County due to Storm Damage
FALLS CHURCH, Virginia – The Defense Health Agency announced that TRICARE beneficiaries in Sumner County, Tennessee, may receive emergency prescription refills now through May 19, 2024, due to storm damage. This is in addition to Claiborne, Jackson, Maury, Robertson, Rutherford, and Stewart counties.
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Dr. Paola D'Angelo, a research bioengineer at the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center, is working on second-skin, chemical-biological protection. The technology will be incorporated into one thin layer of protective fabric and will block and deactivate a number of threats. NSRDEC is working in collaboration with other defense labs and academia. (U.S. Army photo by David Kamm)
President Barack Obama convenes a meeting on the Zika virus in the Situation Room of the White House, Jan. 26, 2016. (White House photo by Pete Souza)
Al Whitney (left) and Jessica Escobar (right), management analyst for the Armed Services Blood Program, at the Armed Services Blood Program Office at Defense Health Headquarters in Falls Church, Va., Jan. 14. They are holding Ted E. Bear, a teddy bear that travels with Whitney everywhere he goes to help spread the importance of donating blood and blood products. The story behind Ted E. Bear began when Whitney bought a teddy bear for a young girl in need of a white blood cell donation.
Seaman Dustin Nix, a corpsman with 2nd Medical Battalion, treats a role-player for injuries in preparation for their upcoming multinational exercise in Norway. The corpsmen treated similar injuries caused by cold weather, a climate they will experience in Norway. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Michael Dye)
Ted E. Bear, a teddy bear that travels with “Platelets Across America” founder Al Whitney, is a symbol of the importance of blood donations. The story behind Ted E. Bear began when Whitney bought a teddy bear for a young girl in need of a white blood cell donation.
Army Maj. Roger Williams, a flight surgeon from the 2nd Combat Aviation Brigade, listens to his patient's blood circulation with a stethoscope at the Troop Medical Center on Camp Humphreys, South Korea.
Air Force 2nd Lt. Auriel Vokolek, (left), a nurse, takes newborn Isabella’s temperature as her mom, Air Force Staff Sgt. Keri Sorsby, holds her in the post-partum unit at San Antonio Military Medical Center, Jan. 25, 2016.
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Air Force Master Sgt. Stephanie Washington, 379th Expeditionary Medical Support Squadron Diagnostics and Therapeutics flight chief, inspects a red blood cell unit before placing the unit into a box to be shipped at the Blood Transshipment Center at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar.
Navy Lt. Kathleen Kostka (left), from Virginia Beach, Virginia, a critical care nurse embarked aboard USS Kearsarge attached to Fleet Surgical Team 4, simulates sedating a patient during a medical evacuation drill in an MV-22 Osprey.
A Marine fires a M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle, at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia.
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