By Paul Ross, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Public Affairs Editor’s note: This is part of a three-part series featuring individuals who serve as Navy hospital corpsmen. A 16-year-old picks up a magazine and flips through the glossy pages. He stops at an article about a heroic sailor — a Navy corpsman — [...]
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By Barbara Lyon, Naval Medical Center San Diego volunteer yoga instructor Have you ever found yourself in a position you never thought that you would be in? Twenty eight years ago I walked into a yoga studio, encouraged by my husband to give it a try. Why would I want to try yoga? It did [...]
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By Lt. Cmdr. Michael Mercado, MC, USN U.S. Naval Hospital Guam; interview by Joshua Wick, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Public Affairs Editor’s note: Several Navy Medicine personnel, medical treatment facilities (MTFs), units and programs were recognized this year by the Military Health System (MHS) awards program in February. The MHS awards aims to showcase [...]
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By Allen Wright, staff epidemiologist, Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center Here at the Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center (NMCPHC), the Navy’s hub for health surveillance, we are supporting you by continuously monitoring the health of our Navy so that we may advocate for and recommend improved force health protection guidance to [...]
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By Capt. Scott L. Johnston, MSC, USN, director, Naval Center for Combat & Operational Stress Control As Sailors, each of us has a responsibility to look out for our Shipmates, especially in relation to the stress injuries that can be brought on by the unrelenting high-tempo operations we now experience at sea and on land. [...]
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