SAFEGUARD, new suicide prevention initiative for U.S. Army Soldiers deemed to be highest risk for suicide-related behavior, has begun controlled studies for suicide prevention interventions led by the Uniformed Services University.

In a day marked by two milestones, Lt. Cmdr. Robert Johnson, Medical Officer Programs and Scholarships officer assigned to Navy Talent Acquisition Group Great Lakes, commissioned two newly selected officers into the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps.

By 8 a.m., the pediatric department at Naval Hospital (NH) Jacksonville is already running on its usual rhythm while four Sailors moved through it carrying more than their duty assignments.

It is 1976. You are aboard the Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier USS America, slicing through the Mediterranean during high-stakes fleet exercises, when disaster strikes: a heavy wrench falls deep into the ship's massive turbine, completely disabling the vessel.

Whether he’s pressing 150 pounds overhead with one hand at Louisiana’s Strongest Man competition, or representing the U.S. Army Reserve on the NATO stage, Capt. Tyler Davis is actively in motion.

Scientists from six NATO countries met at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences on July 6, 2026, for a summit on battlefield fatigue and its effect on troop performance. Army Col. Daniel Kearney, who commanded an infantry company through 15 months of combat in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley, offered a firsthand perspective on what ...

Air Force dental providers and technicians from the 21st Medical Group received a briefing on the importance of dental treatment in the combat environment during a field dentistry presentation on Aug. 7, 2026.

USU’s MTBI² co-authored the first update in 25 years to penetrating TBI care, moving treatment from watchful waiting to immediate surgery.

More than 100 active-duty and Air National Guard medics from seven units trained to provide expeditionary medical care under the threat of unmanned aerial vehicles during Northern Strike 26-2 at the Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center.

Ensuring warfighters are medically ready to deploy across the vast Pacific region requires more than routine care. It demands a culture that constantly finds ways to do our operational processes better. That drive to improve was the focus of the 2026 Naval Medical Forces Pacific Continuous Process Improvement Project Competition.

U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Matthew Case, acting surgeon general of the Navy and acting chief, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, joined more than 80 Sailors in Billings, Montana, to kick off the city’s first-ever Navy Week, Aug. 20-22.

Walter Reed National Military Medical Center’s Murtha Cancer Center was recently approved to deliver an advanced form of treatment for cancer. The therapy, known as Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell therapy, allows Walter Reed to treat patients with forms of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and acute lymphoblastic leukemia by reprogramming their own blood cells ...

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.

Investigating an innovative procedure to save service members’ lives on the battlefield by controlling bleeding at or near the point of injury, Military Health System leadership recently recognized a Walter Reed National Military Medical Center general surgery resident with the Young Investigators Award.

Arleen Hidalgo Morales, of Moca, Puerto Rico, is participating in the Office of Naval Research’s Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program at Naval Medical Research Unit San Antonio.