MSMR publishes a monthly update for reportable medical events among active component service members as well as other beneficiaries of the U.S. Military Health System.

This historical review discusses the contextual factors that led to differing U.S. Army immunization strategies as well as outcomes for tetanus and diphtheria during the Second World War.

This study characterizes all medically diagnosed bites and stings in U.S. active component service members from snakes, venomous fish, other venomous marine animals, arthropods, and insects identified through medical data from the Defense Medical Surveillance System.

This study examines the trend in annual incidence of hypertension and hypertensive disease, as well as annual percentages of recorded high blood pressure measurements, among U.S. service members between 2018 and 2023, utilizing data from the Defense Medical Surveillance System.

This study addresses an important gap in epidemiological data on 11 arboviruses present in Papua New Guinea by providing updated serology data from 185 Papua New Guinea military personnel.

Leaders from Bayne-Jones Army Community Hospital and the Alexandria VA Health Care System met July 18 to explore opportunities for collaboration aimed at improving access to care for veterans and active duty service members across Central Louisiana.

In times of crisis, U.S. Air Force fighter pilots, aircrews, and missile crews lead the charge in defending the nation with medical professionals by their side committed to keeping them healthy and ready for the operational mission. Among members of this warfighting team are aeromedical physician assistants assigned to flying and operational units, ...

When a young Theresa “Terri” Lavoie told her father—a U.S. Navy officer—that she wanted to become a nurse, he disagreed. He reminded her she had been afraid of taking medicine when she was sick as a child and instead encouraged her to pursue business. But Lavoie knew where her heart belonged.

“I’m here because I didn’t give up,” said U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Davonte Mccraven, who will soon be meritoriously promoted to chief petty officer after winning Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Sailor of the Year, for Fiscal Year 2024.

U.S. Air Force airmen assigned to the 18th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron and 35th Medical Group, partnered with the 36th Airlift Squadron and Japan Air Self-Defense Force Misawa Medical Squadron, to conduct a mass casualty exercise and subject matter expert exchange during Resolute Force Pacific 2025 at Misawa Air Base, July 23.

Patients have ranked 16 Defense Health Network Central clinics, providers and support staff as the "best of the best" in the Military Health System for patient experience and customer care, according to a recent Joint Outpatient Experience Survey, or JOES, quarterly report.

U.S. Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Guam hosted a “Nurse Corps Takeover” event as part of its Sailor 360 program in February, aiming to empower enlisted personnel to pursue commissioning as Navy Nurse Corps officers.

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Luka Ndungu becomes Uniformed Services University’s first active duty enlisted Ph.D. graduate in Environmental Health Sciences, leading the way in military medical research to safeguard warfighter health.

U.S. Navy Reserve medical personnel applied their lifesaving skills during a battlefield stress test July 24 at Fort Drum’s Bridgewater-Vaccaro Medical Simulation Training Center.

The South Pacific Island nation of Fiji might seem a world away for a U.S. Navy hospital corpsman from Queens, New York. Pacific Partnership 2025 made such a unique opportunity possible.