This report documents the frequencies, rates, trends, and characteristics of ambulatory health care visits in 2023 of active component members of the U.S. Armed Forces in 2023.

Reportable Medical Events are documented in the Disease Reporting System internet by health care providers and public health officials throughout the Military Health System to monitor, control, and prevent the occurrence and spread of diseases of public health interest or readiness importance.

This annual summary article uses several health care burden measures to quantify the impacts in 2023 of various illnesses and injuries among members of the active component of the U.S. Armed Forces.

What you need to hear about the expanded hearing protection fit testing requirement.

Medical Readiness Command, West held its Best Leader, Best Squad competition May 13-17. This year, MRC - W teamed up with the Medical Center of Excellence to hold the first consolidated competition where the participants could also earn their Expert Field Medical Badge and the German Armed Forces Proficiency Badge.

By being physically fit, airmen, Guardians, Marines, sailors, and soldiers ensure they are physically ready to meet the demands of their job duties. Being in shape can also reduce the risk of developing many chronic illnesses and even shows improved mental health.

Hearing problems—such as hearing loss and tinnitus, a ringing or buzzing in the ears—are the leading conditions for service-connected disability compensation. To prevent these conditions, the military requires routine hearing readiness testing which has been limited by the use of specialized booths. To increase testing ability, military audiology ...

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 ...

It was a friendly competition designed to individually motivate and collectively encourage. It was an event which once concluded involved almost 20 percent of the command who crunched their way through the Crews Into Shape Challenge at Navy Medicine Readiness Training Command Bremerton.

MSMR annually publishes an update on the incidence of malaria among U.S. service members.

This retrospective analysis describes active duty U.S. Army soldiers who died from 2014 to 2019, utilizing administrative data sources to calculate mortality rates, assess trends by category of death, and identify leading causes of death within subpopulations.

This report describes an investigation of a respiratory outbreak at the Armed Forces of the Philippines Health Service Education and Training Center by the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research-Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences and Armed Forces of the Philippines Collaborative Molecular Laboratory, demonstrating a common source ...

This report summarizes the results and lessons from the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Division Integrated Biosurveillance forecasts for the 2022-2023 respiratory illness forecasting season.