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The Military Health System is an interconnected network of service members whose mission is to support the lives and families of those who support our country. Everyday in the MHS advancements are made in the lab, in the field, and here at home. These are just a few articles highlighting those accomplishments that don't always make it to the front page of local papers.

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Oct. 1, 2024

Update: Routine Screening for Antibodies to Human Immunodeficiency Virus in the U.S. Armed Forces, Active and Reserve Components, January 2019–June 2024

This annual report summarizes numbers and trends of newly identified HIV-antibody seropositivity, from January 1, 2019 through June 30, 2024, among military members of five services under the active and reserve components of the U.S. Armed Forces, in addition to the Army and Air Force National Guard.

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Oct. 1, 2024

Guest Editorial: Health Policy Analysis: Improving HIV PrEP Implementation to Help End the HIV Epidemic in the U.S. Military

This guest editorial presents a policy analysis that suggests HIV PrEP coverage in the Military Health System remains suboptimal, and evaluates several available interventions could result in substantial increases in PrEP coverage that could further reduce new service member HIV infections and increase medical readiness.

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Oct. 1, 2024

NASA Honors Air Force Physical Therapist with Silver Snoopy Award

U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Danielle Anderson poses with her Silver Snoopy Award at the space vehicle mockup facility located within NASA’s Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, Sept. 20, 2024. Since September 2021, Anderson has led the musculoskeletal medicine and rehabilitation team for Space Medicine Operations at Johnson Space Center. (Photo by U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Danielle Anderson)

Behind the scenes of every space flight are hundreds of individuals at NASA who ensure the safety and success of its astronauts from start to finish. One of those individuals is U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Danielle Anderson, the USAF’s first physical therapist stationed at NASA, for her work in musculoskeletal medicine and rehabilitation.

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Sept. 30, 2024

10 Years Later: Looking Back on Naval Medical Research Center Ebola Response in West Africa

U.S. Navy Lt. Andrea McCoy reviews specimen documentation and recording data in laboratory log-book at a Naval Medical Research Center mobile laboratory at Bushrod Island, Liberia.

In March of 2014, the West African nation of Guinea declared an outbreak of Ebola disease. Because Ebola symptoms mirror other indigenous diseases such as malaria, influenza, food-borne poisoning, basic diarrhea and Lassa hemorrhagic fever, cases went undiagnosed for three months, which quickly overwhelmed the local health care systems of Guinea and ...

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