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  • Managing Mental Health over the Holidays

    Holidays are a time when families come together to eat good food and spend quality time. They also can be a time of stress whether you are worried about having enough money, hosting the largest family get-together of the year, or traveling long distances.According to the Centers for Disease Control

  • Protect Your Skin in the Colder Months

    It’s cold outside and you might think that sun protection is for the summer.  Even though the temperature is cooler, the sun is still powerful, so continue to wear sunscreen with sun protective factor (SPF) of at least 15 with both UVA and UVB protection every day.Though you may want that sun-kissed

  • Air Force Medical Service engages patients with online toolkit

    The Air Force Medical Service has launched a new online Patient and Family Engagement Toolkit aimed at engaging patients and their families and providing a “one-stop shop” for all the different ways patients can better partner with their healthcare provider. This toolkit can help patients learn how

  • Life after loss: One Air Force family’s journey to recovery

    Nine months ago, Air Force Lt. Col. Melchizedek “Kato” Martinez, a career tactical communications officer, was welcomed home from another combat deployment, a constant in the Martinez family. His wife, Gail, along with their four children, had planned a family retreat to their second home, the one

  • 60th Anniversary of Dependent Care

    The Dependents’ Medical Care Act, effective since Dec. 7, 1956, enabled dependents of military personnel to be treated by civilian doctors in cases of pregnancy, serious injuries, or illnesses requiring hospitalization. The law also opened up medical facilities of all services and the U.S. Public

  • Brandon Waller: remake your in-shape

    Brandon Waller has a youthful, energetic personality and a goofy sense of humor. His toned facial features suggest a high-energy lifestyle, which fits his new position as director of the 374th Aerospace Medicine Squadron Health Promotion Flight.   The Health Promotion Flight, formerly known as the

  • 5 MDOS: Emergency responders

    The 5th Medical Operations Squadron ambulance services department provides emergency medical response and medical technician support for Team Minot. These Airmen also administer immunizations and assist during aeromedical evacuations. (U.S. Air Force photos/Airman 1st Class Jonathan McElderry)

  • 59 MDW on ‘ALRT’: Medics sustain patient in the air

    The Air Force’s 59th Medical Wing sprang into action Dec. 12 when military medics transported a patient with cystic fibrosis from San Antonio to California.The 59th Medical Wing’s Acute Lung Rescue Transport team provided medical care for a military dependent, during the four-hour flight.Because of

  • Air Force nurses of today lay wreaths to honor nurses of the past

    On Dec. 8, the Society of Air Force Nurses gathered a group of active duty and retired nurses from around the area and headed to Arlington National Cemetery to lay wreaths on the tombstones of the nurses buried there. The Society of Air Force Nurses is a Veterans program with more than 1,500 members

  • Medical memories from 7 December 1941: ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR

     Edited from 7 December 1941: An Air Force StoryFrom the first moments of the attack until the close of the day, Hickam's small new hospital, which had opened only a few weeks before, was the focal point of activity on the base.  Capt Frank H. Lane, the acting hospital commander, was an Army Air

  • Embedded medics protect the health of remote weapon warriors

    The 2016 AMSUS Continuing Education Meeting featured a wide variety of exhibits, speeches from high ranking military officials, and important presentations. One such presentation reflected on the value of embedding medics within the 480th Intelligence, Reconnaissance, and Surveillance Wing. The

  • TRICARE Continues to Expand Coverage

    TRICARE constantly seeks to improve health care coverage. Effective early December, we will expand TRICARE coverage to include the care and treatment of beneficiaries requiring an auditory osseointegrated implant (AOI) to non-active duty family members, and we will also cover the services and

  • Special Operations surgical team saves hundreds during deployment

    If they stood on the roof of the abandoned one-story home they were working out of, at night they could see bombs dropping on the city three kilometers north. Limited resources, limited manpower, limited backup, and limited time didn’t stop this Air Force Special Operations Surgical Team from

  • Trusted Care is the path to better medical care

    Trusted Care is all about transforming the Air Force Medical Service into an organization that consistently produces outcomes better than expected no matter what the operational environment. This means training medical Airmen to better engage with their patients, provide better overall care, reduce

  • Medical professionals gather to talk about the future of healthcare

    The 2016 AMSUS Continuing Education Meeting is underway at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor. AMSUS is the Society of Federal Health Professionals and has members throughout the Department of Defense, Department of Veterans Affairs and the private sector. The

  • Wounded Warrior Program goes beyond medical needs to provide support

    The Air Force Medical Service provides medical care for Airmen, but sometimes they need  more than healthcare to be whole again. The Air Force’s Wounded Warrior Program leaves medical care to the AFMS and provides an entirely different, but still essential, kind of support to seriously wounded or

  • TRICARE and the Affordable Care Act

    With the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010, TRICARE beneficiaries have had questions about how it will affect them. The ACA and TRICARE are very different, governed by two different pieces of legislation so changes in one have no effect on the other. The

  • New Peer-Support Service Launches

    The DoD “BeThere” peer support call and outreach center is staffed by peers who are veteran service members and family members of veterans, and aims to provide support for everyday problem-solving of career and general life challenges.