Captain Jordan Cornell, a native of San Antonio, Texas, serves as the Entomology Chief for Public Health in Europe, where his work plays a critical but often unseen role in protecting the health and readiness of U.S. service members. As a subject matter expert supporting the EUCOM region with reach into Africa, Capt. Cornell provides vital assistance ...

Cancer care is a readiness mission, and that guided discussions as the John P. Murtha Cancer Center (MCC) at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, the Department of War’s only Center of Excellence for Cancer Care and Research, hosted its Blood Cancer Summit recently at the hospital. The summit brought together experts, caregivers, and ...

For the thousands of U.S. Army ROTC cadets who converge on Fort Knox every summer, the "CST” or Cadet Summer Training experience is a rite of passage. According to the U.S. Army Cadet Command, the event is the Army’s largest annual training event, serving as the final crucible before the students commission as officers. While the training is designed ...

Col. William Lordan Keller spent more than five decades in the U.S. Army, innovating in the operating room and putting patients first — earning the moniker the “Grand Old Man of Army Medicine.”

MAJ Tatyana Ellison direct commissioned into the U.S. Army Medical Corps as a 60W Psychiatrist through the Culver City recruiting company. A naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Leningrad, Russia, she previously served as an enlisted Soldier before pursuing extensive medical education at institutions including Texas Tech, UT Arlington, Baylor ...

Leadership through change was a key theme during Army Medical Logistics Command’s operational update to senior leaders at the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command on Jan. 29.

Inside an operating room at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, the environment is quiet and controlled. Medical instruments are sprawled out with careful precision alongside the surgical team moving deliberately to prep the room. However, for Maj. Matthew Van Hoof, 86th Dental Squadron oral and maxillofacial surgeon, the work happening here is never ...

Each month, MSMR publishes a reportable medical event update for active component service members as well as Military Health System beneficiaries, documented through the Disease Reporting System internet.

This report describes the trends of tuberculosis testing and latent tuberculosis infection positivity in U.S. Army active component soldiers during the first decade following the 2013 U.S. Army Medical Command policy revision to a targeted, risk-based tuberculosis testing strategy.

This Surveillance Snapshot evaluates adherence to official guidance for disease and injury data reporting during two 2024 exercises, African Lion and Flintlock, in the U.S. Africa Command area of responsibility.

This historical review discusses how the primary challenge presented by malaria infections in the Pacific theater during World War II was an inability to return recovered soldiers quickly to their units, with nearly one percent of malaria patients repatriated for ‘chronic malaria’.

This editorial presents an overview of the CHAMPS database, illustrating the utility and opportunities for research provided by CHAMPS.

Airmen from the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Airlift Wing are transporting medical patients and healthcare providers to and from clinics and hospitals after Winter Storm Fern dumped around 10 inches of snow and ice in Louisville, Kentucky, Jan. 24 and 25, leaving many secondary roads and parking lots impassable with two-wheel-drive vehicles.

The National Museum of Health and Medicine welcomed visitors on Jan. 11 for a public lecture on Ebola virus disease by Dr. Mike Bray, a former U.S. Army medical researcher and long-time expert in infectious diseases. His talk marked 50 years since the first known Ebola outbreak. He explained how the virus spreads, why outbreaks can grow quickly, and ...

The CPGs are designed to help primary care health professionals use the most up-to-date and evidence-based disease identification and treatment options.