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Public Health Supports the Warfighter, Military Community Worldwide

Article
4/4/2023
U.S. Public Health Service Rear Adm. Brandon Taylor reflects on his first year as director of Defense Health Agency Public Health. He recently led a town hall discussion on the transformation and reorganization of public health capabilities within the DOD at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland.

U.S. Public Health Service Rear Adm. Brandon Taylor reflects on his first year as director of Defense Health Agency Public Health.

Combat Casualty Care Course (C4)

Video
4/3/2023
Combat Casualty Care Course (C4)

C4 is a continuing medical education program designed to enhance the operational medical readiness and pre-deployment trauma training skills of tri-service, medical officers. Learn more at www.health.mil/C4 Video features 2nd Lt Nathan Cunningham, Maj. Simon Domenech, Lt. Richard Gonzales, Sgt. Shawn Collins

Welcome to DHA

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4/3/2023
Welcome to DHA

DHA Director Lt. Gen. Telita Crosland shares a welcome message with new DHA headquarters employees on DHA’s mission, vision and priorities. Interested in joining our team? Visit https://dha.usajobs.gov/.

37th Airlift Squadron Pilot and Physician Paves Way for Women in Aviation

Article Around MHS
4/3/2023
U.S. Air Force Maj. Sandra Salzman, 37th Airlift Squadron pilot and physician, sits in the cockpit of a C-130J Super Hercules aircraft over Zaragoza, Spain, on Jan. 27. The training exercise included three C-130Js aircraft assigned to the 37th Air Squadron. (Photo by U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Madelyn Keech)

She just wouldn't take "no" for an answer, and that's how this wife and mom made history as the first female pilot-physician in the Air Force.

U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Bruce Gillingham Retires as Navy's 39th Surgeon General

Article Around MHS
4/3/2023
U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Bruce Gillingham salutes the American flag as U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Matthew Case presents it to him during a flag-folding ceremony for Gillingham's retirement event. (Photo by BUMED PAO)

U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Bruce Gillingham, the Navy’s 39th Surgeon General, celebrates the culmination of 40 years of active duty service at a retirement ceremony at the Uniformed Services University.

Heat Illnesses and Sequelae

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4/1/2023
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Recruit trainees often endure hot and humid conditions putting them in danger of heat illnesses and their sequelae.

Update: Exertional Rhabdomyolysis Among Active Component Members of the U.S. Armed Forces, 2018–2022

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4/1/2023
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This annual summary of the numbers, rates, trends, risk factors, and locations of exertional heat injury occurences including exertional rhabdomyolysis includes data from 2018 to 2022.

The Military Relevance of Heat Illnesses and Their Sequelae

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4/1/2023
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An introduction to this issue of the MSMR, which provides an annual update on adverse health consequences most often associated with training or operations in high heat environments

Update: Heat Exhaustion and Heat Stroke Among Active Component Members of the U.S. Armed Forces, 2018–2022

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4/1/2023
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This year's annual update on the incidence of heat illness among U.S. active duty service members presents the case counts and incidence rates of heat illnesses between 2018 and 2022, as well as the locations of heat illness case occurrences during this period. Heat stroke and heat exhaustion are summarized separately.

Update: Exertional Hyponatremia Among Active Component Members of the U.S. Armed Forces, 2007–2022

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4/1/2023
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This annual update of the incidence of extertional hyponatremia summarizes the frequencies, rates, trends, geographic locations, and both demographic and military characteristics of incident cases of exertional hyponatremia among active component service members, from 2007 to 2022.

Lt. Gen. Telita Crosland Thanks MHS Nurses During Nurses Week

Video
3/31/2023
Lt. Gen. Telita Crosland Thanks MHS Nurses During Nurses Week

Defense Health Agency Director U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Telita Crosland offers remarks on the impact of nurses and nursing in improving health and building readiness in the Military Health System. DHA will celebrate how nurses make a difference – anytime, anywhere—always – during National Nurses Week May 6-12, 2023. National Nurses Week recognizes how nurses – whether in uniform, civilians or contractors -- exemplify excellence in the DHA. National Nurses Week is an opportunity to showcase how nurses are a critical part of the integrated health care team delivering exceptional health care experiences to military health beneficiaries. Nurses remain central to DHA’s support for the National Defense Strategy, helping maintain military readiness to defend the nation.

Laughlin’s Aerospace Physiology: The Team Before the Flight

Article Around MHS
3/31/2023
U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Jada Peters instructs students how to correctly use aircraft equipment in the altitude chamber at Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas, on Feb. 24. The altitude chamber is one of the first training steps for all new pilots and aircrew to demonstrate and know the symptoms of hypoxia. (Photo by U.S. Air Force Senior Airman David Phaff)

Pilots perform one of the most exciting - yet dangerous - jobs in the military. But what happens if equipment fails and pilots' lives hang in the balance? Meet the team who trains pilots in lifesaving skills when things go wrong during flight.

Operation Iraqi Freedom – Two Decades After from Naval Hospital Bremerton

Article Around MHS
3/31/2023
U.S. Marine Senior Chief Hospital Corpsman Cameron Wink (then as a hospital corpsman first class) was assigned to the Marines 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion on the opening days of Operation Iraqi Freedom, which took him from the Kuwaiti/Iraq border on the initial push north up to Saddam Hussein's home town of Tikrit.  (Courtesy photo)

Twenty years later, hospital corpsmen share memories of their deployments in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Find out how those experiences shaped their their chosen Navy Medicine professions, in their own words.

National Doctors Day Salutes Those Who Answered 'A special calling'

Article Around MHS
3/30/2023
U.S. Army Col. Jason M.Blaylock, director for Medical Services, and professor of medicine at Uniformed Service University of Health Sciences, poses for photo as part of WRNMMC Doctors Day Celebration. (DOD photo by Ricardo J. Reyes)

National Doctors Day is March 30 to honor physicians for their dedication and contributions to the health and wellbeing of society and the community in which they serve.

Protecting the Warfighter's Health and Readiness, Now and Into the Future

Article Around MHS
3/30/2023
An anopheles mosquito specimen sample sits under the microscope during a demonstration of the U.S. Army’s medical technology development and modernization efforts, Fort Detrick, Maryland, on Feb. 23. (Photo by Summer Abdoh, U.S. Army)

A cure for a debilitating and sometimes deadly disease, new treatments for working military dogs, a snakebite antidote, and a treatment for respiratory disease! See how years of research collaborations are providing protections for warfighters in remote places like never before.

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