A farewell dinner for a Navy hospital corpsman turned into a real-world emergency response Aug. 21 when 10 hospital corpsmen and several Marines rushed to the scene of a house explosion in Twentynine Palms, helping pull an injured man from a burning, collapsing home, evacuate neighboring residences and provide medical care until civilian emergency ...

Student interns with the Science and Engineering Apprenticeship Program, and college students with the Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program presented findings from their summer research at Naval Medical Research Command’s STEM expo on Aug. 14.

U.S. Airmen from the 944th Aeromedical Staging Squadron completed a two-week Medical Readiness Training Exercise in Honduras in June 2026, gaining hands-on experience providing patient care in resource-limited environments alongside U.S. and Honduran medical professionals.

The 1st Global Field Medical Laboratory, the only global expeditionary laboratory in the U.S. Army, hosted Brig. Gen. Bill O. Soliz, director of Enterprise Operations, Medical Readiness, and Training, J-3/5/7 for the Defense Health Agency, on Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, Aug. 18, 2026.

Thank you for demonstrating your resiliency and building upon that resiliency over these two days of training. Thank you for making us more resilient, and I guarantee that when we do go downrange, we will be more successful and get the job done. We will make our nation proud.” These are words spoken by Lt. Cmdr. Jeremy Sweeten, Expeditionary Medical ...

Two Airmen from the Kentucky Air National Guard’s traveled to Ecuador in April to share information about the unit’s Critical Care Air Transport Teams with their Ecuadorian colleagues.

Walking into a mental health clinic and asking for help can be difficult. Walking out without the specialty mental health appointment you expected can leave you wondering what happens next.

A former USU Summer Scholar returned as an Army officer and incoming doctoral student as the 2026 military medicine program closed.

Focused on improving pain management and avoiding substance use disorder, the National Capital Region Pain Initiative at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center recently hosted the 2026 Combined Pain Care Skills Training and SUD Symposium.

For Mikaela Altis, a physician assistant in Munson Army Health Center’s Department of Primary Care, adopting ambient listening technology has meant more eye contact with patients, more time for follow-up questions and fewer hours spent completing clinical notes after the workday ends.

The Connecticut National Guard has partnered with the Connecticut Department of Veterans Affairs in a new pilot program to help streamline post-deployment VA services for its guardsmen by integrating the department’s mobile medical unit into the Guard’s Reverse Soldier Readiness Processing (RSRP) for soldiers and airmen returning home from overseas ...

Uniformed Services University graduate students design, edit, and publish the fourth edition of their student-run scientific journal.

A newly developed fitness app is giving service members across the Department of War a single tool to build training programs tailored to their fitness test requirements at Yokota Air Base, Japan, Aug. 11.

Leadership from U.S. Army Public Health Command Europe and the German military, or Bundeswehr, met Aug. 12-13 to prepare a modernized Memorandum of Understanding, renewing a decades-long partnership focused on military public health and veterinary services.

More than 110 Medical Service Corps healthcare administrators, clinicians, scientists and military leaders from across Southern California gathered at the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Officers’ Club Aug. 7, for the 2026 Southern California Medical Service Corps Officers’ Association Leadership Symposium, focused on strengthening leadership, ...