Reportable medical events are documented in the Disease Reporting System internet by health care providers and public health officials throughout the Military Health System and are reported monthly in MSMR.

For over 200 years, the U.S. military has consistently utilized the best data it could collect, analyze, and disseminate, to protect the health and lives of its personnel, improve current medical knowledge and practice, and advance scientific discovery.

Throughout its 30-year history, MSMR has continuously sought to improve its content with the ultimate goal of providing its readers with unbiased, scientifically rigorous, evidence-based information on the current status, trends, and determinants of the physical and mental health of U.S. military service members.

This brief article describes how the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) worked collaboratively with local partners to discover an effective treatment for scrub typhus, a deadly illness that killed thousands of Allied soldiers in the Pacific during World War II.

This editorial evaluates the clinical utility of increasingly common respiratory viral panel diagnostic assays and how they can improve force health protection and Military Health System beneficiary public health surveillance.

Since 1999, MSMR has published regular updates on malaria incidence among U.S. service members. This update describes the epidemiological patterns of malaria incidence among service members in the active and reserve components of the U.S. Armed Forces from 2015 through 2024.

The Long Short-Term Memory model is a machine-learning method with potential to improve forecasting accuracy for respiratory disease surveillance. This report assesses the model's performance for potential future Department of Defense influenza forecasting.

This brief article discusses two ship explosions during the Second World War that caused mass U.S. casualties without any enemy intervention.

Did you know that TRICARE beneficiaries can receive a variety of healthcare services via virtual health? These services take place through secure video calls, phone appointments, and other technology platforms. TRICARE virtual health coverage includes primary care, urgent care, mental health, and specialty services.

What a cardiologist from the Uniformed Service University strives to eat to stay heart healthy and why.

Department of Defense Instruction 1010.04, “Problematic Substance Use and Gambling Disorder,” provides a holistic approach to identify, treat, and prevent problematic substance use and gambling disorder.

As the new Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, Dr. Stephen Ferrara describes how the Military Health System is a force multiplier for the warfighter.

Military Health System announces 20 winners of the annual MHS Communications Awards, recognizing categories including writing, photography, storytelling, and video.

Hitting the ground running, Dr. Stephen Ferrara, the acting assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, visited military hospitals and clinics in the National Capital Region, sharing his priorities of the Military Health System.

This study identifies the incidence of the two tick-borne diseases, Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain spotted fever, that are most frequently diagnosed within the Military Health System among active component U.S. service members and evaluates the correlation between temperature and incidence of each tick-borne disease.