This report presents an updated summary of the health care burdens documented in 2024 among non-service member beneficiaries of the Military Health System, which provides comprehensive health care to a diverse and heterogeneous population of family members and military retirees from all branches of military service.

This report quantifies the impacts of various illnesses and injuries among members of the active component of the U.S. Coast Guard in 2024, employing the same disease classification system and morbidity burden measures in the general active component burden analysis report.

This report focuses on service member health care encounters during deployment to two theaters of operations, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) and U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), where the largest concentrations of service members are deployed without access to fixed medical facilities.

This report documents the frequencies, rates, trends, and distributions of ambulatory, or outpatient care, visits among active component service members, based on standardized records from U.S. military and non-military medical facilities worldwide.

This Surveillance Snapshot documents trends in telehealth service use among active component service members and identifies the 10 most frequent diagnoses addressed via telehealth, utilizing Defense Medical Surveillance System outpatient and demographic records.

This annual summary report of various illnesses and injuries among members of the active component of the U.S. Armed Forces quantifies patient diagnoses and major condition categories with several health care burden measures derived from the Global Burden of Disease Study.

This Surveillance Snapshot documents the frequencies, rates, trends, and distributions of various illnesses and injuries among members of the reserve component of the U.S. Coast Guard, based on standardized records from U.S. military and non-military medical facilities.

This report documents the frequencies, rates, trends, and distributions of hospitalizations, or inpatient care, among active component service members, based on standardized records from U.S. military and non-military medical facilities worldwide.

This Surveillance Snapshot documents the frequencies, rates, trends, and distributions of various illnesses and injuries among members of the reserve component of the U.S. Armed Forces, based on standardized records from U.S. military and non-military medical facilities worldwide.

This report summarizes the nature, numbers, and trends of conditions of medical evacuations from CENTCOM and AFRICOM in 2024, with comparisons to the preceding four years.

Former Joint Staff Surgeon Air Force Brig. Gen. (Dr.) John R. Andrus, who retires on Sept. 1, 2025, shares his unparalleled career of service to military families, U.S. airmen and Guardians, the joint staff, and combatant commands. With an extensive background in operational medicine and warfighter health stretching from land to space, Andrus provides ...

A history of medical transport and aeromedical evacuation is told through the pioneering work of U.S. Army Maj. Gen. David Norvell Walker Grant, the “grandfather” of the present-day Air Force Medical Service.

Young Investigators and researchers with poster presentations—representing the future of military health research—received top honors at the 2025 Military Health System Research Symposium on Aug. 7 in Kissimmee, Florida.

The Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs continue burn pit exposure support of more than 4.7 million veterans in a toxic exposures registry and offer updated healthcare provider training on those exposures.

Artificial intelligence and digital tools are transforming how the military trains its medical workforce.