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  • Double Deuce Day Calls Attention to Suicide Awareness and Prevention

    Twenty Second Air Force Headquarters Airmen gathered April 22, 2016 here at 11:11 a.m. to perform 22 push-ups and participate in a fitness challenge in an effort to promote awareness of veteran suicides.The 22nd AF staff has dubbed the 22nd day of each month, “Double Deuce Day,” a day set aside to

  • Miller takes command of AFMOA

    Brig. Gen. Robert I. Miller took charge of the Air Force Medical Operations Agency during a May 6 change-of-command ceremony at nearby Port San Antonio.Miller takes charge of the executing agency responsible for Air Force medical operations worldwide. He replaces Brig. Gen. Lee E. Payne, who was

  • AFMS celebrates nurse, medical tech week

    Each year in May, nearly 3.4 million registered nurses, constituting our nation's largest health care profession in the United States, begin a week-long celebration recognizing the contributions nurse's make to healthcare.The week begins today, marked as National Nurse's Day, and ends on Thursday,

  • National Women’s Health Week: Make Time to Stay Healthy

    In this world of busy days trying to balance work and family life, many women still don’t take time to meet their own needs, especially when it comes to their health. Women’s Health Week, which starts with Mother’s Day, is a national reminder for women to find the time they need to give themselves

  • AF leader shares life-long love of nursing

    As a young girl, Air Force Deputy Surgeon General and Chief of the Nurse Corps Maj. Gen. Dorothy Hogg always found herself placing band-aides on dolls and requesting doctor kits and microscopes.In the upper east corner of Maine, in the town of Limestone, the general was born the dependent of an

  • Plan for Proper Care this Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month

    May is peak season for asthma and allergy sufferers. This month, educate yourself and your loved ones about proper care and treatment for these diseases.More than 50 million Americans suffer from different kinds of allergies – pollen, skin, latex and more. And unfortunately, the rate of allergies is

  • Airmen, Soldiers save lives in local fire

    Service members from 51st Fighter Wing, 8th Fighter Wing and the 35th Air Defense Artillery Brigade stepped in to aid four local community members and an Airman escape from a building fire in the Songtan shopping district outside Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea, April 29, 2016. With no help and

  • Program teaches parents to PLAY with autistic child

    An intervention program at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base for autistic children is teaching parents effective ways to interact with their children through playing with them.Lt. Col. (Dr.) Daniel Schulteis, a developmental-behavioral pediatrician and director of the base's Behavioral Health and

  • Take the first step toward better mental health

    When a colleague has the flu or breaks a bone you naturally expect them to take time off from work to get medical attention and recover. It may be harder to detect a mental health concern in a colleague or even in ourselves. However, when a mental health concern impacts daily functioning it is

  • Ceremony marks completion of 2-year modernization project

    Officials here held a ribbon-cutting ceremony April 21 to mark the completion of a $12.5 million modernization project covering more than 3,700 square feet to Hanscom's Medical Treatment Facility.The project's scope included both administrative and clinical areas in Building 1900, the main medical

  • Air Force doctor joins White House summit

    An Air Force doctor currently based at Madigan joined in a White House summit on April 13 to take part in discussions centered on supporting military-connected students.Lt. Col. Eric Flake, Madigan’s Program Director of Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics, served as one of ten moderators for the

  • AF family shares experience with child’s autism

    (This is the sixth AFMS article for the Military Children’s Health Month series)  Four year-old Dawson Stock loves music and instruments –his mother says he is obsessed with the violin. He knows the alphabet forwards and backwards and is ready to read. Dawson is teaching himself the sign-language

  • Leading the next generation of warrior medics

    It’s a little after 7:30 a.m. and the stampede has finally cleared the hallways. Finally, a moment of silence, the first since arriving to work three hours prior. The five-story building is nearly desolate now, but a multitude of paperwork and tasks remain to be done before the 800-plus military

  • New Urgent Care Pilot Program for Prime Beneficiaries

    To increase access to care, the Department of Defense is launching an Urgent Care Pilot Program for TRICARE Prime beneficiaries. This program allows Prime enrollees two visits to a network or TRICARE authorized provider without a referral or prior authorization.The Urgent Care Pilot Program,

  • Little heroes: April is Month of the Military Child

    During April, Andersen families celebrate the Month of the Military Child with activities planned in conjunction with the Department of Defense Education Activity schools and Child Development Center.With frequent deployments, temporary duty assignments, permanent change of stations and extended