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  • U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Trey Garner, center, 60th Medical Group cardiology services manager provides an overview of a cardio suite while Lt. Gen. Dorothy Hogg, left, Air Force Surgeon General, looks on during a tour through the Heart, Lung and Vascular Center, David Grant USAF Medical Center at Travis Air Force Base, California, Feb. 10, 2020. Hogg visited with 60th Medical Group Airmen and recognized the positive impact they have on their community through their innovative medical practices. (U.S. Air Force photo by Heide Couch

    Air Force Surgeon General visits DGMC

    U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Dorothy Hogg, Air Force Surgeon General, and Chief Master Sgt. G. Steve Cum, Chief, Medical Enlisted Force and Enlisted Corps Chief, visited David Grant USAF Medical Center, Travis Air Force Base, California.
  • Airmen participate in a group fitness exercise.

    Musculoskeletal injury top threat to Airmen readiness, lethality: Interventions support fitness improvement plan

    Mission readiness is key to the execution of the National Defense strategy, and the Air Force Materiel Command is operating on the front lines ensuring Airmen are fit to fight.The Department of Defense defines readiness as the ability of military forces to fight and meet the demands of assigned missions. A closer look at possible reasons for low
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    Ready to respond: 78th SFS member takes prompt action to save man’s life

    Tech. Sgt. Scott Brakefield and his wife had recently moved to Middle Georgia from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, when a leisurely shopping trip turned into a life-saving event. Brakefield, who joined the 78th Security Forces Squadron in early January, had both hands full of shopping bags when he heard a woman calling out for help for her husband who had sustained an accidental, self-inflicted gunshot wound while in the bathroom of the local department store.
  • (From left) Tech. Sgt. Victor Kipping, public health non-commissioned officer in charge, Maj. Kisha Wood, The Center for the Sustainment of Trauma Readiness Skills Omaha deputy director, and Lt. Col. Elizabeth Schnaubelt, C-STARS Omaha director, assemble the portable patient isolation device on Bob Valentine, C-STARS Omaha administrator, to prepare for transport at The University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, Jan. 3, 2020. The U.S. Air Force’s C-STARS Omaha program, which was established in 2018, partners with The University of Nebraska Medical Center, focusing on advancing the training of medical Airmen in infectious diseases that they might see during deployment. (Courtesy photo)

    Air Force partners with University of Nebraska Medical Center for infectious disease proficiency

    The Air Force is creating a program to best prepare medical Airmen to respond to infectious disease threats that could impact military personnel and operations. The U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine is developing a training program with the University of Nebraska Medical Center through the Center for Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills Omaha program. The program launched in 2018 and Airmen are set to begin taking classes in October.
  • The Air Force Surgeon General has announced the recipients of the 2019 Air Force Medical Service individual and team awards. (U.S. Air Force graphic)

    Air Force Medical Service 2019 Award Winners announced

    The Air Force Surgeon General is proud to announce the recipients of the 2019 Air Force Medical Service individual and team awards.
  • Staff Sgt. Joseph Deguino, 56th Operational Medicine Readiness Squadron Public Health communicable disease noncommissioned officer in charge, examines tomatoes during a monthly inspection Jan. 27, 2020, in Club 5/6 at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz. Every restaurant and food store on base, checking for discrepancies and ensuring that staff use mandated gear. Public health helps keep Airmen healthy, ready to train and deploy by inspecting facilities for food quality, performing audiograms and more. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class by Brooke Moeder)

    Luke Public Health team maintains Airmen medical readiness

    A variety of factors can hinder Airmen from successfully completing the mission or deploying, whether it be sickness, poor eating and sleeping habits or unfamiliarity with the job. Airmen in the 56th Operational Medical Readiness Squadron Public Health unit help mitigate those factors, thus ensuring safety of the community and ensuring Airmen are ready to deploy.
  • Between 5,000 and 8,000 blood serum, fecal, urine, viral and respiratory samples arrive six days a week from U.S. Air Force hospitals and clinics worldwide, as well as some other Department of Defense facilities, for analysis at the Epidemiology Laboratory Service, also known as the "Epi Lab" at the 711th Human Performance Wing’s United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine and Public Health at Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio.The lab is a Department of Defense reference laboratory offering clinical diagnostic, public health, and force health screening and testing. (U.S. Air Force photo by J.M. Eddins Jr.)

    AFRL’s Epidemiology Lab supports world health officials in flu vaccine development

    The United States is currently in the midst of influenza season, but the medical readiness of Airmen across the Air Force is being supported by a DoD-wide respiratory pathogen surveillance program located at the United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reporting 19 million cases, 180,000 hospitalizations, and 10,000 deaths in the U.S. alone.
  • U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Abelardo Ezquivel, 52nd Aerospace Medicine Squadron Bioenvironmental Engineering technician, left, and Airman 1st Class Kaden Simonton, 52nd AMDS Bioenvironmental Engineering technician, right, conduct training on an air flow vacuum at Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, January 24, 2020. The air flow vacuum pulls radiation particles onto a filter that is later examined using an ADM-300, a multi-functional survey instrument, to determine if dangerous alpha or beta radioactive particles are present. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Kyle Cope)

    A day in the life: 52nd Aerospace Medical Squadron bioenvironmental engineering

    On the third floor of building 175 on Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, 17 members of the 52nd Aerospace Medicine Squadron Bioenvironmental Engineering flight work to ensure the long-term safety and health of members of the 52nd Fighter Wing.
  • Students from the 312th Training Squadron arrive to a simulated emergency scene during the Emergency Medical Responders course, Jan. 28, 2020, at the Louis F. Garland Department of Defense Fire Academy on Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas. The EMR course consists of both classroom lecture and hands-on skills training which covers patient assessment, treatment, and use of various medical equipment. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Robyn Hunsinger)

    Goodfellow AFB's 312th TRS modernizes emergency medical responders course

    The 312th Training Squadron at Goodfellow Air Force Base recently acquired new and improved HAL Manikins as a training tool in the Emergency Medical Responders course.
  • The U.S. Central Command’s clinical operations team poses for a photo during an awards ceremony at the annual meeting of AMSUS, the Society of Federal Health Professionals, Dec. 5, 2019.

    USCENTCOM military treatment facilities recognized for infection control

    USCENTCOM military treatment facilities earned a prestigious 2019 Advancement Toward a High Reliability Health Care Award at a ceremony during the annual meeting of AMSUS, the Society of Federal Health Professionals in National Harbor, Maryland, Dec. 5, 2019.
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