BETHESDA, Md. – Naval Medical Research Center (NMRC)’s Clinical Trials Center is looking for 200 volunteer test subjects for a new clinical study that investigates the immune response to seasonal flu vaccination.Clinical staff will look at different aspects of participants’ immune systems before and...

Diane Hebert couldn’t make it when her son, Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Joshua Hebert, was being recognized as Navy Medicine Readiness Training Command Bremerton’s Junior Sailor of the Quarter.Not because she was like many parents who are several time zones or states away from their children serving...

(Nov 11, 2022) Plenty of attention has been given lately to multiple underwater Navy reenlistments. But a Navy Hospital Corpsman took reenlistments to a new height on Nov. 10.Petty Officer 1st Class Kyle Hugo, a Biomedical Equipment Quality Assurance technician, piloted his way into six more years...

November 10, 2022 (NAS LEMOORE) -- “Our daughter was born in this building when it was a hospital,” Command Master Chief Hospital Corpsman Christina Wood reminisces about time she spent in the clinic on her final days while assigned to Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Lemoore. “Lemoore...

On November 7, 2022, Vice Adm. John Mateczun, the former Commander of Joint Task Force National Capital Region Medical and Deputy Surgeon General of the Navy died. He was 76.Vice Adm. Mateczun charted a military career like none other.Over the course of 38 years in uniform, he served as an U.S. Army...

Elements of Naval Medical Forces Pacific (NMFP) recently travelled to Okinawa prefecture, Japan, and began participation in exercise Keen Sword 23 (KS23), Nov. 12...

(Oct. 31, 2022) It was another humid day in Puerto Barrios, Guatemala, and there was the smell of a rainstorm brewing in the air. The light beige and aged building of the Japan-Guatemala Friendship Hospital became more prominent as Chief Hospital Corpsman Shawn Burnette, from Pittsburgh,...

CARTAGENA, Colombia (Nov. 11, 2022) – Hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) arrived in Cartagena, Colombia, in support of U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command/U.S. 4th Fleet’s Continuing Promise 2022 (CP22) mission, Nov. 11.This visit marks the third of five mission stops as part of CP22 and the...

Each year on November 11th we honor generations of Veterans that have courageously defended our freedom. Past and present servicemembers will have different answers about what serving in the military means to them. However, what unifies all who wear the uniform of the United States is they answered...

SEATTLE – Staff from the Naval Medical Research & Development enterprise took part in the 2022 American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) Annual Meeting earlier this month, from Oct. 30 to Nov. 3.Enterprise attendees, comprised of military and civilian research, medical and support...