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The Military Training Network transitions to the Defense Health Agency

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10/11/2019
The Military Training Network or MTN transferred from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences to the Defense Health Agency in September 2019. MTN oversees basic, advanced, and pediatric life-support training for more than 350,000 medical and non-medical personnel at 345 military facilities around the globe. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Alexandra Singer)

Shift speeds training where it’s needed most

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The Head, Hand, and Heart of Women’s Health

Article
10/4/2019
Maintaining peak health is critical for all military personnel. This month, we focus on women whose health concerns and symptoms may be different from those in men. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Roger Jackson)

Health is universal for military personnel and civilians, but some health concerns affect women differently. Here are a few examples.

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Health Readiness | Preventive Health | Women's Health

DoD, FDA collaborate on behalf of service member health protection, care

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9/26/2019
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs,Tom McCaffery, met with Food and Drug Administration Acting Commissioner Dr. Ned Sharpless during the FDA-DoD Semi-Annual Meeting. (MHS photo)

The DoD and FDA work together to improve battlefield trauma response

Autumn ushers in season of falling under the weather with flu

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9/26/2019
A bronze bench and statue near the America Building at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, memorializes military dependent Trevor Lin. The 7-year-old's death in the fall of 2009 was attributed to influenza. (Photo courtesy of Walter Reed-Bethesda)

Health care experts: Everyone 6 months and older should get vaccine

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DoD, HHS implement Executive Order to modernize flu vaccines

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9/25/2019
Health care experts recommend that everyone 6 months and older – including the elderly, chronically ill people, and expectant mothers – receive the flu vaccine as soon as it becomes available. (DoD photo)

New task force aims to increase efficiency, effectiveness

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Unleashing innovation to support field medics, corpsmen

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9/13/2019
A drone lifts off during the Hive Final Mile demonstration on Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia. Drones are one of the autonomous technologies that might soon be helping medics provide care for warfighters on distant battlefields. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Jacqueline A. Clifford)

Imagine unmanned vehicles bringing medical supplies or blood products to support a field medic’s care of wounded soldiers, or even transporting a wounded warfighter to safety. Researchers at the Army’s Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, or TATRC, are collaborating with the Services, academia and private industry to make such scenarios a reality.

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Research and Innovation | Innovation

Proper pain management with a proper scale

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9/12/2019
The Defense and Veteran’s Pain Rating Scale

A new pain scale that measures intensity and effects on daily life helps providers and patients better understand pain

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Health agencies investigating severe lung illnesses linked to e-cigarette use

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9/12/2019
"While the CDC investigation of the possible cases of lung illness and deaths reportedly associated with the use of e-cigarette products is ongoing, Service members and their families or dependents are encouraged not to use e-cigarette products,” advised Dr. Terry Adirim, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Health Services Policy and Oversight. (DoD photo)

Thirty-three states report 450 possible cases, six deaths

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MHS GENESIS goes live at next wave of Military Treatment Facilities

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9/7/2019
Sean Harap, Tripler Army Medical Center physician, performs a physical exam for U.S. Air Force Capt. Joshua Gscheidmeier, 128th Air Refueling Wing, at Tripler Army Medical Center May 8, 2014, in Honolulu. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Christopher Hubenthal)

Three sites in California, one in Idaho deploy new electronic health care delivery system

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A change in leadership for the Defense Health Agency

Article
9/3/2019
Army Lt. Gen. Ronald Place, the incoming director of the Defense Health Agency, previously served in DHA as director of the National Capital Region Medical Directorate, the transitional Intermediate Management Organization, and the interim assistant director for health care administration. (MHS photo)

Army Lt. Gen. Place installed as third director

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VADM Raquel Bono: The end of a brilliant tenure, the beginning of a new chapter

Article
8/30/2019
Vice Admiral Raquel C. Bono

As she completes a 36-year career, Bono looks ahead to “disrupt” health care

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McCaffery sworn in as new ASDHA

Article
8/29/2019
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs Thomas McCaffery was formally sworn into office on August 28, 2019

He will oversee the transfer of management of hundreds of military hospitals and clinics from the Army, Navy and Air Force to the Defense Health Agency

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DoD to begin next major phase of military hospital consolidation

Article
8/26/2019
Lt. Col. Juli Fung-Hayes (center), a U.S. Army Reserve emergency medicine physician with the 2nd Medical Brigade, leads a medic team from the 396th Combat Support Hospital, headquartered at Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington, through a trauma and critical care scenario in a field hospital during a promotional photo shoot for Army Reserve marketing and recruiting at Fort Hunter Liggett, California, July 18, 2018. (U.S. Army Reserve photo by Master Sgt. Michel Sauret)

Congress mandated that a single agency will be responsible for the administration and management of all military hospitals and clinics

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Young Investigator competition, poster session award winners announced on final day of 2019 MHSRS

Article
8/22/2019
Dr. Briana Vecchio-Pagan from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland accepts her poster presentation award on Thursday, August 22nd from Dr. Terry Rauch, acting deputy assistant secretary of defense for health readiness policy and oversight at DHA. (MHS photo)

Record number of competition abstracts received; almost 1,500 posters presented

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MHSRS 2019

Supporting the warfighter of today with innovation of tomorrow

Article
8/22/2019
Air Force Maj. Gen. Lee Payne, assistant director of DHA's Combat Support Agency, moderates a panel presentation on Wednesday, August 21 at MHSRS. (MHS photo)

Air Force Maj. Gen. Payne, panelists describe Defense Health Agency combat support role

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