By Shoshona Pilip-Florea, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Public Affairs U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, the flagship command for all of Navy and Marine Corps medicine, started relocating its staff May 30 from Washington, D.C., to Falls Church, Va., as part of the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Act of [...]
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By Robyn Mincher, DCoE The newest mobile application from National Center for Telehealth and Technology (T2) encourages you to get moving. Designed for those experiencing post-combat stress, “Positive Activity Jackpot,” available for Android systems, helps users creatively plan fun activities using “pleasant events scheduling,” a behavioral health therapy used to help regulate emotions and cope [...]
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By Paul Ross, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Public Affairs and Editor, Navy Medicine Magazine When my kid brother left for Iraq he was just that — a kid. He returned home shattered inside. The “dark pit,” as he calls it, was hidden underneath his gruff, infantry-tattooed exterior. No one in our family [...]
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By Cmdr. Dixie Aune, WHNP, Specialty Leader for WHNP/CNM, Naval Hospital Beaufort May is National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month, and it’s important to know that as women age, we are at increased risk of osteoporosis (brittle bones). In fact, about one in two women over the age of 50 will break a bone due [...]
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By Vice Adm. Matthew Nathan, U.S. Navy Surgeon General My focus as your Surgeon General is to ensure that Navy Medicine is supporting our forward deployed forces. The U.S. Navy’s global mission is to be a power projection platform, and we provide expeditionary Force Health Protection for the men and women that makeup that platform. [...]
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