Courtesy story, Navy and Marine Corps Public Health CenterStress is a part of life and affects us all. Most times we recognize it and other times we may not, but one thing remains constant, the effect in can have on us. While a little stress is okay - some stress is actually beneficial - too much...

While the month of February is known as heart health month, the subject it highlights is a year round concern, particularly in the United States where it’s leading cause of death in men and women in America. Every year nearly 785,000 Americans have their first heart attack. Another 470,000 people...

Located deep in the tropics approximately 55 miles from the eastern tip of Cuba, United States Coast Guard (USCG) Base Great Inagua is a nine-acre forward operating base renowned for search and rescue operations. The personnel of this small but vital facility serve as heroes to many in their various...

The Navy Environmental Preventive Medicine Unit FIVE (NEPMU-5) Forward Deployable Preventive Medicine Units (FDPMU’s) exercised their knowledge and skills developed through extensive field training to provide support and expertise during Operation Allies Refuge (OAR)/Welcome (W) mission. The...

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...

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...

Sailors from the Navy Environmental and Preventive Medicine Unit 2 (NEPMU-2), gathered for a nine mile “Operation Turkey Trot” on November 24th. The event was a ruck march themed food drive, where each participant filled their backpacks with non-perishable foods to donate much needed items going...

Tobacco comes in a variety of forms, from chewing tobacco, cigars, pipes, hookah, heat not burn products, vaping, nicotine pouches, and cigarettes…, then add all the various flavors and marketing, and methods to consume it. Add service members across the DoD and what do you get? A recipe for a...

In the early hours of September 17th, Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Mari Williams stood at a registration table in a parking lot across from the Virginia Beach Aquarium, greeting active duty service members and veterans participating in a day-long hike up and down the ocean front. The group she’s...