Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune welcomed its first baby of 2022. Lilly Lee was welcomed into the world at 11:29 p.m. on January 01, 2022 by her proud parents, United States Marine Corps Lance Corporal Elizabeta Lee and Lance Corporal Marcus Lee. Lilly weighed 6 pounds, 11 ounces and measured at...

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...

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...

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...