Active duty U.S. Air Force and U.S. Army personnel sourced from 15 locations around the globe arrived to Filadelfia, Paraguay, on July 29, 2024, in support of AMISTAD24, the first ever active duty-led U.S. military medical assistance mission in the country.

A team of five medical experts from Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Germany, travelled to Kaunus, Lithuania, recently where they spent a week discussing delayed evacuation casualty care with members of the Lithuanian Military Medicine Center of Excellence.

When an Angolan woman suddenly went into cardiac arrest in the Luanda military hospital, U.S. Army Spc. Joshua Ford knew exactly what to do.

The Defense Department’s patient movement system ensures the expedited transport and en route medical care of service members — anywhere, any time.

On June 19, while conducting a medical readiness exercise at the Garnison Military Hospital in N’Djamena two U.S. Army Reserves Soldiers assisted three Chadian citizens injured from an ammunition depot explosion on June 18.

A Public Health Command Europe Director of Environmental Health Sciences was recently inducted into the Order of Military Medical Merit for his accomplishments during his career.

Using innovative technology in the delivery of health care and creating effective partnerships were two big topics among Defense Health Agency senior leaders and staff that spoke at the annual HIMSS Conference in Orlando the week of March 11 – 15, 2024.

U.S. Army Sgt. Karinna Matthews is used to seeing the world from the air. When she’s not caring for patients as a nurse in the 328th Field Support Hospital, 330th Medical Brigade, 807th Medical Command, she spends her days as a helicopter tour pilot, excited to share the joy of aviation with others. When she arrived in Barbados for TRADEWINDS 24, she ...

For the first time in U.S. Army medicine history, an Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 32-bed field hospital was activated and issued. In in APS-2 history, it was also the first time an equipment configuration and hand-off area were established at Dülmen, Germany, to support this mission.

Operating in extreme artic temperatures can be extremely challenging. Performing tactical combat casualty care treatment even more difficult as casualties, donned with large amounts of clothing layers, can make wound assessment and applying medical care problematic. Operation Ice Camp 2024 is an operation that allows the U.S. Navy to assess its ...

U.S. Army Lt. Col. Karl Coutinho and his coalition partners performed a significant surgical feat at Erbil Air Base’s, coalition medical facility in Iraq on April 19, 2024.

On Feb. 27, 2024, U.S. Navy Capt. Bradley Deafenbaugh, an orthopedic surgeon with Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Portsmouth, and U.S. Navy Capt. Jamie Fitch, a general surgeon with Camp Lejeune, conducted an operation reconnecting 19-year-old Renaldo Muñoz severed tendon.

"I'm here to give back to my continent," said U.S. Army Spc. Israel Osagie, a practical nursing specialist with the 425th Medical Detachment, 176th Medical Brigade, 807th Medical Command.

Augustus Wayne Amos’ father passed away during a liver surgery in another country four days before Augustus received his own vascular surgery, one performed by members of the U.S. Air Force Lesser Antilles Medical Assistance Team on Feb. 26, 2024, in St. Lucia. The LAMAT team has been in St. Lucia since Feb. 26, working to complement host nation ...

The Lesser Antilles Medical Assistance Team mission is underway for a second year of health engagements across four nations, beginning in Suriname, February 19, 2024.