April 16, 2024

BAMC recognizes volunteers for extraordinary service

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas — Brooke Army Medical Center Volunteer Appreciation Week culminated with a ceremony April 5 to honor

April 16, 2024

McDonald Army Health Center Pharmacy: Tough times, Tougher People

JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. — McDonald Army Health Center's Pharmacy Staff bands together to provide safe and reliable healthcare to their beneficiaries during tough times.

April 15, 2024

Harpist Provides Volunteer Performances at Walter Reed to Enhance Therapeutic Patient Care

Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Md. — Dr. Anastasia Pike, a classically trained harpist and music professor in the Graduate School of Education at Columbia University, volunteers her time and talent at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, lifting the spirits of others by playing her harp in designated areas throughout the America Building.

April 12, 2024

Darnall invites the community to bring awareness during Sexual Assault Awareness Prevention Month

FORT CAVAZOS, Texas – The Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center began Sexual Assault Awareness Prevention Month with it’s “Do Your Part” blood drive, one of a few planned events that will allow the community to help bring awareness to preventing sexual assaults and harassment. “This year’s theme is Change Through Unity: Empower. Protect. Prevent.” Following the initial observance of Domestic Violence Awareness Month in October, advocates of sexual assault survivors sought to create a similar awareness event more specific to sexual violence. What started out as an awareness week in April, grew into a month-long consciousness-raising event.

April 12, 2024

From the clinic to the stage: A Tripler physician performs in local theater

Tripler Army Medical Center — When U.S. Army Capt. David Samsel, a physician, is not working at Warrior Ohana Medical Home in Kapolei, he can often be found acting on a local theater stage. This year, he played Eddie McCune in the Diamond Head Theatre’s production of “The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940,” which ran Feb. 2-24. The play is a fast-paced and deliriously funny farce that takes place in an isolated mansion in the middle of a snowstorm. The characters are cut off from the outside world with only a deranged murderer, the Stage Door Slasher, for company.

April 11, 2024

Military Pharmacies Restored to Full Operations After Change Healthcare Cyberattack

FALLS CHURCH, Va. — Military pharmacies have returned to normal operations following a February cyberattack on the nation's largest commercial prescription processor, Change Healthcare.

April 11, 2024

Research symposium brings together minds dedicated to advancing military medicine

CAMP LEJEUNE, North Carolina — Medical professionals gathered April 11, 2024, on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune for the Annual Research Symposium.

April 11, 2024

Walter Reed Medics Earn Prestigious Expert Field Medical Badge

Expert Field Medical Badge: A Test of Knowledge, Stamina and Resilience Over 100 service members from across the Defense Health Agency (DHA) competed to earn the U.S. Army’s Expert Field Medical Badge (EFMB) in March after undergoing a series of challenging written exams and grueling physical trainings at Fort Walker, Virginia.

April 10, 2024

Walter Reed’s Department of Simulation participates in STEM Expo

Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Md. — Walter Reed National Military Medical Center’s Department of Simulation participated in the Navy League of the U.S. STEM Expo on April 7 at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in Oxon Hill, Maryland.

April 9, 2024

Health care delivery system becomes virtual, digital

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. — The 96th Medical Group is one of a few Defense Health Agency medical facilities collaborating to create a new, patient-centric health care model. The intent of the innovative model is to change how patients access care and how providers deliver care.