SILVER SPRING, Md. – Staff of Naval Medical Research Center (NMRC) hosted an 80th birthday celebration to recognize the past accomplishments and future mission of the command on Oct. 27.The celebration capped off NMRC’s Commander Leadership Conference, a three-day gathering of staff from across the...

Retired Chief Storekeeper Steven Elliott received the 2022 Department of Defense (DoD) Outstanding Employee/Service Member Annual Disability Award for his work as Naval Special Warfare Group (NSWG) 1’s medical supply program manager...

SAN DIEGO – More than 70 medical professionals participated in-person and virtually in the Fleet Health Integration Panel (FHIP), Oct. 11-14, at U.S. 3rd Fleet Headquarters.The biannual medical panel identifies gaps in readiness, standardizes practices and organizes the delivery of capabilities to...

Now hear this!With October designated as Audiology Awareness Month, now is the time for everyone to listen up, heed the call, and harken to the need for healthy hearing.Amid the noisy industrial working environment of Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, hearing conservation is considered mission essential...

MIAMI (Oct. 23, 2022) – Hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) departed from Miami after commencing Continuing Promise 2022, Oct. 23, 2022.During Comfort’s time in Miami, the ship hosted over 200 guests, including distinguished visitors from more than 15 countries and local and national media outlets...

“I do not know what you have heard about NMRI as to its reputation among those who can evaluate research. From what I have heard it appears that it has already attained a stature in the scientific world and has made contributions to research in its short life of which a much older institution might...

ATLANTIC OCEAN — “My aunt passed away in 2008 from breast cancer,” said Lt. Nyasia Jenkins, from Unci, New York, assigned to USS Gerald R. Ford’s (CVN 78) medical department. “It was detected late so there was really no chance for us to see her.”One in eight women will face cancer in their life...

(Oct. 16, 2022) ATLANTIC OCEAN — “When we responded, all we could hear was screaming,” Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Blaine Grandfield, from Merritt, Texas, says, recalling a time a Sailor fell three stories off a scaffolding onto a floating barge while serving aboard USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). A...

It was back in early September that Gunner’s Mate 1st Class Tristan Brayman along with Hospital Corpsmen 1st Class Cyrus Cunningham, Ferrell Jenkins and Sonnypaul Soriano, were notified by command leadership that they were chosen to be part of Fiscal Year 2023 Navy Chief Petty Officer ranks.That...

For Elma Faye Miller, infection prevention and control nurse at Naval Hospital Bremerton, recognizing Oct. 16-22, 2022, as International Infection Prevention Week, is a great reminder of the importance attached to the awareness campaign.One that is applicable for all 52 weeks in the year.“Knowing...