NAVAL AIR STATION SIGONELLA, Italy – In late May, Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) EURAFCENT researchers and partners in Tunisia published a study in the journal Medical and Veterinary Entomology , identifying key locations and seasonal patterns of the invasive mosquito Aedes albopictus, a vector...

Team members with the Defense Health Agency’s Warfighter Readiness, Performance, and Brain Health team hosted an end-user touchpoint at the Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Tactical Medicine Training Center, June 30, 2026.The event brought together U.S. Navy corpsmen and medical officers from across...

U.S. Naval Hospital (USNH) Guam is expanding medical care for newborns and children with several new programs that aim to improve the health of their youngest patients, reduce medical evacuations, and enhance medical readiness across the Indo-Pacific. The expanded services will include home light...

SUFFOLK, Va. — Two Master-at-Arms assigned to Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Twentynine Palms completed Combat Skills Training (CST) on June 12 in Suffolk, Virginia. The weeklong course for Expeditionary Medicine (ExMed) Sailors, standardized by Naval Medical Forces Pacific and...

Prominently displayed in the executive conference room at the U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) headquarters in Falls Church, Virginia, is a portrait of Vice Adm. James Zimble, the Navy Surgeon General from 1987 to 1991. At first glance, you may not see anything unusual in the oil...

BREMERTON, Wash. – Navy Hospital Corpsmen are routinely expected to provide life-saving medical care in high-stress operational and emergency environments – scenarios that demand rapid decision-making, seamless teamwork, and decisive leadership. However, tactical medical and expeditionary skills can...

Navy Force Master Chief PatrickPaul “PaP” C. Mangaran, command senior enlisted leader for the Defense Health Agency, visited Naval Health Clinic Cherry Point on Friday, June 26, 2026. Mangaran toured NHCCP for an update on latest development to facilities for patients and staff. NHCCP serves as the...

NAVAL AIR STATION SIGONELLA, Italy - Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) EURAFCENT welcomed Senior Chief Hospital Corpsman Essozimna Andjo as its new command senior enlisted leader (CSEL) on June 17.Andjo, who brings more than two decades of operational and medical experience to the command, is...

CAMP LEJEUNE, NC – Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune graduates its newest class of family medicine residents, interns, and sports medicine fellows into the military medicine ranks. The Graduate Medical Education Directorate of the medical center (NMCCL) hosted the ceremony on June 30, 2026, at...

LIMA, Peru – Miguel Ramirez, head of information management/information technology at Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) SOUTH, has been selected for the 2025 Captain Joan Dooling Information Professional Lifetime Achievement Award.The award, which will be formally recognized during the 2026...