Sailors assigned to Naval Medical Forces Atlantic (NMFL) hosted a Sailor 360 stress management training for mental wellness on board Naval Support Activity (NSA) Hampton Roads – Portsmouth Annex, Jan. 24, 2024. The training began with a presentation of resources available locally to Sailors to...

Okinawa, Japan: This week on Camp Foster, medical personnel from all over the island gathered together in a large audience to attend a two-day refresher course on Military Tropical Medicine (MTM). LCDR Vlad Stanila from U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa (USNO), Preventive Medicine Specialist, coordinated...

By James A. BlackWRNMMC Office of Command CommunicationsWomen Physicians: Pioneering Health Care and Patient-Centered ServiceFor more than a century, women physicians have contributed to the success of medical care in the United States, playing vital roles in saving the lives of children,...

Near the Christmas holiday 2023, on a small island in the Pacific Ocean, a young woman prepared for her child’s birth, her emotions obscured behind an unreadable mask. At the same moment, a U.S. Navy midwife entered the delivery room at the last chance she had before going to the next island on her...

NORFOLK, Va. (Jan. 9, 2024) – One hundred twenty-six Sailors participated in a historic bioskills procedure lab onboard Naval Station Norfolk, Jan. 9.Sailors from 29 different commands attended the lab, which was held to provide realistic training to operational forces to prepare for upcoming...

It’s dusk and you are alone in the forest. It’s been two hours since you were forced to eject from your aircraft, which turned into a fiery ball of metal after being hit by an enemysurface to air missile. You are shaken and lost, but still mobile. This is when your training and mental preparation...

The hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) Supply department, comprised of approximately 150 Sailors, along with four Pacific Partnership 2024-1 mission supply personnel, medical team planners and civilian mariners, worked together to provide logistical support for Pacific Partnership, the largest...

SAN DIEGO – Personnel with Naval Medical Research Command (NMRC) provided training on biological attack response and mitigation to Sailors aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Boxer (LHD 4) from January 24-25.The training provides shipboard medical laboratory technicians with biological warfare...

During some medical crises a healthcare professional may also end up being a patient at the facility that they serve at. For Naval Medical Center San Diego’s (NMCSD) Chief Hospital Corpsman Charlene Green, that is exactly what transpired for her during the recent holiday period.Green, who serves as...

By Bernard S. LittleWRNMMC Command CommunicationsNavy Capt. (Dr.) Thanh Hoang, program director for the National Capital Consortium (NCC) Endocrinology Fellowship and on staff at Walter Reed, recently spoke at the American Thyroid Association Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., discussing his noted...