A Navy Corpsman received the Navy Special Salute Award at the USO- Metro Awards Dinner held at the MGM National Harbor Hotel in Forest Heights, Maryland December 7th.Hospital Corpsman Second Class Amos L. Bogs received the honor for providing COVID-19 medical care during a deployment to Ochsner...

The Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center’s (NMCPHC) Expeditionary Platforms Department (EXPLAT) of the Preventive Medicine Directorate hosted a joint service training course to service members from both the Navy and Army, with critical updates necessary for conducting occupational and...

SAN ANTONIO, Texas – Rear Adm. Cynthia Kuehner, commander of Naval Medical Forces Support Command, and Command Master Chief Jason Reynolds had an office call with San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg, Dec. 14.This is the first formal meeting between the two leaders, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.“It was...

If someone has a fever and feeling fatigue, do they have COVID-19? If someone has a cough and a runny nose, is it allergies? If someone has a headache and a sore throat, it must be the flu. Right? Wrong!“With COVID-19, the flu and allergies having similar symptoms, it can be difficult to tell them...

Naval Medical Center Portsmouth (NMCP) is the first Navy military treatment facility (MTF) to be awarded the American Nursing Credentialing Center (ANCC) Pathway to Excellence designation, Dec. 10.It was a three-year journey to not only be the first MTF in Navy Medicine to achieve this goal, but...

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas – (Dec. 10, 2021) Biomedical engineers from Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio are working on developing a portable device with the capability of sterilizing medical instruments on the battlefield or in austere environments which will help...

Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune’s Communication Center works similar to a human heart. Like a heart pumps blood to the rest of the body, employees of the Communication Center say they help pump information to the rest of the medical treatment facility.The main purpose of the center is establishing...

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas – (Dec. 8, 2021) – Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio hosted senior leaders from Navy Medicine Training Support Center (NMTSC) for a command briefing and tour, Dec. 8.NMTSC’s commanding officer, executive officer, and command master chief...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (December 8, 2021) – Naval Medical Center Portsmouth’s (NMCP) leadership and members of the Command Executive Board devoted time to the NMCP’s galley serving lines for a holiday meal, Dec. 8.The menu included shrimp cocktail, New England clam chowder, roast turkey, ribeye, and ham,...

Holiday blues, seasonal depression, and other terms have been used to describe what is now known as Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), and more often than not, many factors play a role on an individual’s ability to be affected by this disorder each year around the holidays.In most cases, SAD...