SAN DIEGO - Researchers from Naval Health Research Center (NHRC) are investigating whether vitamin D-fortified Performance Readiness Bars can prevent broken bones and fatigue among U.S. Marine recruits.Recent studies indicate that recruits arrive at boot camp with dangerously low levels of vitamin...

PORTSMOUTH, Va – Navy Medicine is modernizing expeditionary medical (EXMED) logistics to support the Fleet and Marine Corps in contested environments. During the 2026 Navy Medicine Logistics Symposium, leaders focused on sustaining scalable, modular systems designed to handle prolonged care and...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. – As operational requirements continue to expand across the Fleet and joint force, the Navy Medicine Enterprise is facing an increasing need for medical logistics officers according to Cmdr. Rannie Gibson, assistant specialty leader for Navy medical logisticians and assigned to Naval...

For today’s Sailors the summons from their command’s urinalysis coordinator is as routine as morning colors: "The following personnel have been selected by the Navy Drug Screening Program to provide a sample...."While Benjamin Franklin famously limited life’s certainties to “death and taxes,” those...

What started out as lighthearted recognition idea became a rinsing reality for Naval Hospital Bremerton’s Sterile Processing Department.SPD staff members – primarily Navy Nurse Corps officers and hospital corpsmen with surgical technologist specialty training in attendance – held a ribbon-cutting...

TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. — Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Twentynine Palms recognized Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Jason Pollick as Junior Sailor of the Quarter for the second quarter of 2026, highlighting his contributions to operational readiness and occupational medicine...

CAMP LEJEUNE, North Carolina – Blast exposure is unavoidable for most Marines. One doctor in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina is working to outpace blast exposure before it leads to irreparable hearing loss.“Marines, in particular, are exposed to a high level of noise and blasts as part of their job...

SAN DIEGO — Capt. Elizabeth Adriano, director of Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD), has been honored by the American Hospital Association (AHA) with the 2026 Federal Health Care Executive Award for Excellence.The award, announced on April 17, recognizes uniformed and non-uniformed federal...

Courtesy story by Lt. j. g. Taylor Worley, Navy Office of Community OutreachMILLINGTON, Tenn. – Cmdr. Narda Heywood, a native of Lauderdale Lakes, Florida, serves the U.S. Navy assigned to U.S. Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.“The values of integrity and...

They began with a distinctive group in 1908 known as the Sacred Twenty.From those initial plank owners in one of the five distinctive Navy Medicine corps, U.S. Navy Nurse Corps officers continue their calling of caring for warfighters from bedside to the battlefield.While continuing their daily...