This annual summary uses several health care burden measures to quantify the impacts of various illnesses and injuries in 2022 among members of the active component of the U.S. Armed Forces. Health care burden metrics include the total number of medical encounters, individuals affected, and hospital bed days.

This report employs the same disease classification system and health care burden measures as employed in the MSMR burden analysis of the U.S. Armed Forces active component to quantify the impacts of various illnesses and injuries among members of the active component of the U.S. Coast Guard in 2022.

This report documents the frequencies, rates, trends, and characteristics of ambulatory health care visits in 2022 of active component members of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps.

MSMR provides data on Reportable Medical Events within the Military Health System in every issue, listing not only list the most recent case counts but trends of incidence for the prior two months, year-to-date, and over the preceding year.

This report documents the frequencies, rates, trends, and distributions of hospitalization among active component members of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps during calendar year 2022.

U.S. Army pharmacists and pharmacy specialists from across the country traveled to Camp Bullis, Texas, this week to participate in a 40-hour deployment readiness course hosted by the U.S. Army Medical Center of Excellence. The course is designed to prepare personnel to provide efficient pharmaceutical in an austere, multi-domain, large-scale operating ...

How regularly you sleep, not just the length of sleep, has a connection to your heart health.

Sailors from Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Portsmouth enhanced a casualty receiving treatment and amphibious assault ship USS Bataan and conducted a three-day certification exercise as part of a continued commitment to mission readiness, March 21.

The Air Force Medical Service is expanding its MEDIC-X initiative across the U.S. Air Force to ensure all airmen assigned to medical treatment facilities are adaptable and ready for a dynamic future battlefield.

More than 450 military and civilian personnel from across the Military Health System attended a recent “Understanding and Evaluating Military Environmental Exposures” webinar offered by the Defense Health Agency’s Continuing Education Program Office within the Education and Training Directorate.

Army Medicine, Defense Health Agency, and TRICARE East region contractor Humana Military representatives welcomed local TRICARE network health care providers to the Sabalauski Air Assault School on Fort Campbell, Kentucky, on April 13.

Nutritional Fitness is your ability to sustain your performance through foods, dietary supplements, and beverages in adequate quantities, quality, and proportions.

The Uniformed Services University's Graduate School of Nursing developed a new course, “Child and Adolescent Mental Health,” to address the mental health needs of military children in medicine.

For the first time, medical representatives from the Defense Health Agency participated in a combatant command movement exercise, the Ultimate Caduceus 2023 held in March. The objective was to test the Department of Defense’s aeromedical evacuation and critical care transport capabilities.