Naval Hospital Bremerton’s Health Promotion and Wellness team were at Naval Base Kitsap Bangor Liberty Center to actively promote the Great American Spit Out, February 22, 2024.

Leadership from the U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa, Japan, met with leaders from the University of the Ryukyus to discuss the importance of a strong relationship between the two health care facilities, which will soon be next-door neighbors.

Womack’s Clinical Nurse Transition Program has achieved accreditation by the American Nurses Credentialing Commission on Accreditation in Practice Transition Programs, becoming the second military treatment facility to receive this distinction.

Research has consistently shown the most effective approach in the treatment of trauma is actually talk therapy.

Senate hears DOD updates on warfighter brain health, traumatic brain injury, and blast exposure on Feb. 28.

This study compared estimates of the prevalence of and risk factors for tobacco and nicotine use obtained from the 2018 Health Related Behaviors Survey and Periodic Health Assessment survey. The HRBS and the PHA are important Department of Defense sources of data on health behavior collected from U.S. military service members.

This Surveillance Snapshot presents a comparison of U.S. active component military and general population HIV incidence rates in 2021, the most recent year for which stratified U.S. data were available, using indirect standardization by sex, age, and race and ethnicity.

This study provides the first estimate of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis coverage in the U.S. military, defined as the proportion of the persons taking HIV PrEP out of the estimated number of persons who had indications for it, that is also comparable to U.S. civilian estimates. The population with indications for HIV PrEP was obtained from the ...

This Surveillance Snapshot provides an overview of the 2023-2024 mid-season analysis of influenza vaccine effectiveness against influenza hospitalizations among U.S. military active component service members.

Reportable Medical Events are documented in the Disease Reporting System internet by health care providers and public health officials throughout the Military Health System.

This is an introduction to a composite of three Surveillance Snapshots of Department of Defense data on mid-season influenza vaccine effectiveness that were presented at the 2024 VRBPAC meeting.

This Surveillance Snapshot provides the number of U.S. military active component service members prescribed HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis medication in 2023.

This Surveillance Snapshot provides influenza vaccine effectiveness estimates against ambulatory influenza among Department of Defense TRICARE beneficiaries.

This Surveillance Snapshot provides an overview of the 2023-2024 mid-season analysis of influenza vaccine effectiveness against medically-attended ambulatory influenza infections among U.S. military active component service members.

U.S. Sailors from the U.S. Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command in Rota, Spain, continued their integration of tactical combat casualty care curriculum into their physical fitness training regimen.