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  • Affordable Care Act has little effect on TRICARE beneficiaries

    The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is now in effect. The new law has some military members, retirees and TRICARE beneficiaries wondering how it will affect them. For most TRICARE beneficiaries, it won't have any effect. Beneficiaries who receive benefits under any TRICARE program meet

  • Air Force medical facilities earn top honors from The Joint Commission

    Three Air Force Medical Service military treatment facilities (MTFs) earned top accreditation honors recently by The Joint Commission, the leading accreditor of health care organizations in America, for exemplary performance and were named among the nation's Top Performers on Key Quality

  • AF selects 87 for medical squadron command

    More than 80 officers from five medical career fields have been selected for squadron command, Air Force Personnel Center officials announced. The 87 selected were among 127 candidates selected by developmental teams that convened in June. Candidates who are not on the selection list will remain

  • Not just an average drug store

    Keeping base personnel healthy is a team effort for the 380th Expeditionary Medical Group. Public health ensures the base common areas stay clean, doctors and independent duty medical technicians diagnose and treat patients and dental ensures members keep chomping along. The last stop for many

  • Diagnosis fails to stop Airman, Reservist in her tracks

    Ashley Bean had become interested in running marathons after participating in two overseas. She even planned on running in two more this year. Bean was preparing for an upcoming marathon and made a goal to beat her old time, but that all changed this summer.After having migraines and dizzy spells at

  • Early detection is essential to fight breast cancer

    October turns pink here in order to raise awareness for the more than 39,000 women who could potentially die from breast cancer, the second most common type of cancer in women.According to the American Cancer Society, more than 295,000 new cases of breast cancer will be diagnosed in women throughout

  • Violators of PII will have AFNET accounts locked

    Individuals who inappropriately store and transmit Personally Identifiable Information over the Air Force Network will now have their accounts locked in response to the violation. "We are taking several steps to improve notification and reporting of PII incidents," said General William L. Shelton,

  • Maintaining healthy gums can lead to better overall health

    More and more today physicians are focusing on overall bodily health as opposed to treating only specific ailments as they occur, to improve quality and longevity of life. This concept has also become more important to dentists as well since research during the past two decades has shed light on the

  • Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine welcomes Canadian instructors

    An international agreement signed last year that promotes mutual cooperation and interoperability between armed forces' aeromedical evacuation (AE) assets in the United States, Australia, Canada and Great Britain has gone into effect, resulting in some new faces at the U.S. Air Force School of

  • Son of deployed Airman helps start 2013 World Series

    When Lindsey Miller, wife of Capt. Garrett Miller, received a call from the Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., Airman and Family Readiness Center Oct. 22, little did she know she was about to answer a call from destiny.A member from the Boston Red Sox staff was on the other end offering her an

  • AFI change simplifies fitness appeal process

    Airmen who fail their fitness assessment now may appeal to their wing commanders rather than submit an appeal to the Air Force Board for Corrections of Military Records, Air Force Personnel Center officials said.The appeal process change is one of several updates to Air Force Instruction 36-2905,

  • Aerospace Physiologist Achieves Air Force Research Laboratory Fellow Status

    Dr. Thomas Morgan of the 711th Human Performance Wing's Human Performance Integration Directorate has been selected as a 2013 Fellow of Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). He, along with six others, will be honored by the Laboratory at an induction ceremony at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base on

  • Medical Enterprise Service Desk improves service and efficiency

    As most Air Force military treatment facilities transition information management, information technology (IM/IT) support to the Medical Enterprise Service Desk (MESD), what does this mean for the future of medical IM/IT? Speculating the answer to this question has caused some anxiety for systems

  • DGMC specialist recognized for safety

     Sean Zortman, 60th Medical Group safety and occupational health specialist at David Grant USAF Medical Center, was recently recognized by the National Safety Council as one of forty Rising Stars of Safety during a ceremony presented by DuPont Sustainable Solutions in Chicago earlier this month. The

  • 18th Medical Group trains for contingencies

    Master Sgt. Geisha Patton, 18th Medical Support Squadron in-place patient decontamination team chief, and Airman 1st Class Tiffany Speth, 18th Medical Operations Squadron medical technician, set up a decontamination tent for training at Kadena Air Base, Japan, Oct. 17, 2013. The tent is used to

  • Note to breast cancer: 'I am not your victim'

    I'm sure by now most people don't need to be reminded that October is breast cancer awareness month. How could you have missed it? With all the ribbons, "Save the Ta-Tas" T-shirts, bracelets, earrings, shoe laces and other pink doodads it's fairly hard to forget. Don't get me wrong, this is not a

  • Americans, Norwegians work together to establish critical care unit

    Members of the Norwegian Armed Forces medical branch visited aeromedical evacuation assets assigned here, Oct. 2-4.A three-person team from the Norwegian armed forces medical branch visited Ramstein Air Base to get an overview of how the U.S. Air Force's AE and critical care aeromedical

  • Military website teaches parenting skills

    Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash.--A new website from the Defense Department is helping parents communicate with their children. MilitaryParenting.org is a free, online course that gives a "boot camp" approach to the basics of parenting."The demands of parenting are difficult, especially for a

  • Joint Task Force-Bravo Provides Medical Care to more than 900 in Honduras

    Honduras - Joint Task Force-Bravo's Medical Element partnered with the Honduran Ministry of Health, the Honduran military and the San Pedro Sula Medical School to provide medical care to more than 900 people in two remote villages during a Medical Readiness Exercise, Oct. 16-18."This exercise gave