TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. — Naval Hospital Twentynine Palms has been awarded the Blue-H Award at the Gold Star level for the 14th consecutive year, a recognition from the Navy Surgeon General that highlights excellence in health promotion and wellness across Navy Medicine.The “H” in the Blue H stands...

SILVER SPRING, Md. – Yoann Le Breton, with Naval Medical Research Command (NMRC), and Evelina Angov, with the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR), submitted a provisional patent application for an antimicrobial, non-antibiotic solution to wound care on July 17.Le Breton and Angov, both...

By Lt. Katie Parizek, Medical Service CorpsFor the first time, Navy Reserve Medical Service Corps (MSC) officers assigned to the U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) Headquarters participated in the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps-led Large Scale Exercise (LSE) 2025, July 30 - August...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. - Eddie S. Cain, a native of Jacksonville, Florida, and retired U.S. Air Force veteran, has been promoted to receiving supervisor at Naval Medical Readiness Logistics Command (NMRLC), on Cheatham Annex, Williamsburg, Virginia.With more than 27 years of combined military and civil...

Naval Health Research Center (NHRC) is a partner with the Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program (NREIP). The naval internship program places college and university students pursuing Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) careers in U.S. Navy laboratories across the country,...

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas – The Naval Medical Forces Development Command is mission driven and most importantly people powered! Today, we highlight Hospital Corpsman Chief Petty Officer Bernardo Figueroa, leading chief petty officer for the command’s Future Operations...

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON – (Aug. 26, 2025) – The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Hazard Communication standard 1910.1200 requires Safety Data Sheets (SDSs) to be readily accessible during each work shift for all hazardous chemicals in the workplace.Naval Medical...

CAMP LEMONNIER, Djibouti (Aug. 25, 2025) — Hospital Corpsman Chief Select Kazia Marecheau, a Midcoast Maine native, has been selected for advancement to chief petty officer and for a direct commission into the Medical Service Corps after 15 years of naval service.While forward-deployed to Camp...

When the U.S. Navy Dental Corps was officially birthed, August 22, 1912, Sailors were drilled that individual oral health was crucial in putting their bite in the fight for operational readiness.In acknowledging that founding, the 113th birthday theme, “The Roots of Readiness: Setting the Foundation...

BOSTON – Growing up in Pakistan, Dr. Basmah Jalil developed a love for science and desire to helppeople from an early age. This would lead Jalil to attend Agakhan University in Karachi, Pakistan andeventually to the Navy Medical Corps. She said her father, a former captain and doctor in the...