By Cmdr. Jim Keck, Naval Hospital Jacksonville family medicine physician March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, so it’s a good time to get familiar with this disease and how you can prevent it. Colorectal cancer affects the colon or rectum—the lower part of your digestive system. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, [...]
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By Ms. Dawn Whiting, Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center We all know that “lucky” person in our life … the one who can eat whatever they want and not gain an ounce. Those of us who regularly eat healthy and exercise can only watch with envy as they seem to burn off the [...]
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As we celebrate the holidays and ring in the New Year, all of the Service Surgeons General and Health Affairs leadership would like to take a moment to celebrate the successes of our Military Health System team and thank you for all of your hard work over this past year. Your efforts have helped to [...]
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By Vice Adm. Matthew L. Nathan, U.S. Navy Surgeon General As the year comes to a close and we approach the New Year, we have much to be thankful for and many milestones of this past year on which to reflect. First, I would like to personally thank each of you, the Navy and Marine [...]
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By Andre Sobocinski, historian, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery The end of the Spanish American War (1898) marked the emergence of the United States as a global military power and the beginning of the Navy’s long history in global health engagement. At the start of the twentieth century, the Navy expanded into American Samoa [...]
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