Courtesy Story Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs/Military Health System Air Force Brig. Gen. (Dr.) John R. Andrus recently served as the Joint Staff Surgeon, culminating a 37-year career in military health. Like his predecessors, he brought deep experience and insight to advise top leadership within the Department of Defense on […]
Story by Airman 1st Class Maria Washler AFN Tokyo BATURAJA, Indonesia – U.S. Army surgeons from multiple units visited Indonesian civilian and military hospitals during Super Garuda Shield 25 in Baturaja, Indonesia, Aug. 26, 2025. “We went out into the local community to see how they operate; how they perform medicine in this part of […]
Story by Robert Hammer Defense Health Agency With the theme of “Empowering Care, Enhancing Readiness: Harnessing Health IT Innovation,” the 2025 Defense Health Information Technology Symposium kicked off in Nashville, Tennessee, with Pat Flanders, chief information officer for the Defense Health Agency, addressing more than 2,300 attendees Aug. 26. Besides his role as the DHA […]
Story by Susan McGovern U.S. Army Program Executive Office Enterprise FORT DETRICK, Md. – U.S. Army Program Executive Office Enterprise’s Operational Medicine Information Systems – Army (OMIS-A) developed and piloted a web-based application that eliminates key challenges associated with the deployment and maintenance of the current Health Assessment Lite Operations (HALO) electronic health record (EHR) […]
Story by Jason W. Edwards Defense Health Network Central JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Aug. 28, 2025 – Service members from several units participated in a medical air transport training flight, Aug. 21. Members of the 59th Medical Wing’s Critical Care Air Transport Teams flew alongside the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research Burn Flight […]
Story by Ann Brandstadter Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Dr. Wanda D. Foxx, a staff pediatrician at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, dedicated nearly 25 of her 45-year career to the hospital, shaping the future of military medicine. A longtime member of the Pediatric Primary Care Medical Home’s “Green Team,” she mentored and […]
Story by Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Hernandez Army Reserve Medical Command WASHINGTON, D.C. – More than 40 Army Reserve Soldiers of the Staten Island, New York-based Northeast Medical Area Readiness Support Group and other direct reporting units from the Army Reserve Medical Command hierarchy took part in two concurrent rotations of the annual Medical Readiness […]
Story by Aleece Williams Naval Medical Research Command SILVER SPRING, Md. – Yoann Le Breton, with Naval Medical Research Command (NMRC), and Evelina Angov, with the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR), submitted a provisional patent application for an antimicrobial, non-antibiotic solution to wound care on July 17. Le Breton and Angov, both microbiologists, […]
Story by Senior Master Sgt. Julie Avey 168th Wing FORT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska – Airmen from the 168th Wing Medical Group engaged in an advanced, rigorous combat-casualty-care exercise at Fort Wainwright, Alaska, designed to sharpen their skills in delivering lifesaving care under hostile conditions, Aug 5, 2025. The training, conducted in coordination with the U.S. Army […]
Story by Spc. Abreanna Goodrich 28th Public Affairs Detachment CAMP ITAMI, Japan — Medical personnel from the U.S., Japan and Australia worked side by side during exercise Yama Sakura 89 to keep troops healthy and mission-ready. Staff Sgt. Bobbie Herrera, a medic with the 7456th Medical Operations Readiness Unit out of Iowa, said the combined […]