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  • Disabled veteran trains for inaugural Warrior Games

    Doctors once told Matthew Bilancia that playing sports and competing in athletic competition would be difficult, if not nearly impossible. But the Air Force veteran is defying those odds with a demanding workout regimen and by being selected to participate in the inaugural Warrior Games slated for

  • Theater hospital wall preserves memory, sacrifice

    The 20-by 30-foot flag thousands of patients have passed under on their way to the Air Force Theater Hospital at Joint Base Balad often is photographed in military circles. But lesser known, though no less poignant, are the walls of the Contingency Aeromedical Staging Facility's recreation room.

  • 81st Medical Group Hospital "Excellent," awaits TJC accreditation

    In a word, the 81st Medical Group is "Excellent."That is the result the Headquarters Air Force Inspection Agency (AFIA) passed to a standing-room-only audience of medical group members during the team's official Health Service Inspection (HSI) out brief March 12.A day earlier, surveyors from The

  • Elmendorf hospital adds animal-assisted therapy to arsenal of treatments

    The U.S. military has partnered with canines to detect drugs, locate explosives and catch criminals since before World War II. However, recent research indicates a new potential for the relationship between dogs and humans.Elmendorf's hospital became the fourth Air Force medical group to offer

  • Kyrgyz military working dog gets root canal at Transit Center medical group

    All military working dogs work hard and play hard. When they "attack" a ball during training or play time, their teeth often hit the hard ground or rocks. Alicia, a military working dog employed by the Kyrgyz presidential guard, did just that. She hit the ball so hard she broke her lower left canine

  • Air Force Medical Service - Trusted Care Anywhere

    NOTE: This article was published in U.S. Medicine's "This Year in Federal Medicine: Outlook 2010." It appears here with the publisher's permission."Trusted Care Anywhere" is the Air Force Medical Service's vision for 2010 and beyond. In every domain of Air, Space and Cyberspace, our medics

  • 21st MDG receives highest inspection score in the Air Force

    Less than 10 days after the 21st Force Support Squadron and the Peterson/Thule Chapel was named best in the Air Force, members of the 21st Medical Group cheered with excitement March 19 as the Air Force Inspection Agency medical team chief announced they had received the highest inspection score in

  • Airmen, Chileans treat patients at new expeditionary hospital

    Just five days after their arrival in Chile, Airmen from an Air Force Expeditionary Medical Support team along with Chilean medics are treating patients at the newly built mobile hospital March 15 here. Chilean surgeons and anesthesiologists worked side-by-side with their Air Force counterparts to

  • Air Force medics deploy to support Chilean medical efforts

    An Air Force Expeditionary Medical Support team composed of more than 80 Airmen deployed to Chile March 8 from here to aid local medics in their response to victims of the 8.8 magnitude earthquake Feb. 27 in Chile.The Airmen from 13 different bases left Lackland Air Force Base aboard C-17

  • Brain Injury Awareness Month highlights facts about head trauma

    Traumatic brain injury, or TBI, has been labeled a "signature injury" of the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. It also occurs in non-combat settings in association with motor vehicle accidents, sports injuries, assaults and falls. In 2009, Department of Defense officials reported 20,199

  • 617th AOC Airmen orchestrate African aeromedical evacuation

    When the 617th Air and Space Operations Center's Aeromedical Evacuation Control Team picks up the phone, the clock starts to work against them.AECT Airmen coordinate and transport patients who need a higher level of care from Africa to locations where necessary medical care is available as part of

  • AF cross country teams win Armed Forces title

    The Air Force men's and women's cross country teams won the Armed Forces Cross Country Championship Feb. 13 at Plantes Ferry Sports Complex, Spokane Valley, Wash."This was the most talented men's and women's team I've been a part of in seven years. I was proud of how well everyone performed," said

  • Kirkuk Airmen train Iraqi medics

    Members of the 506th Expeditionary Medical Squadron here are helping train Iraqi medics at the K-1 Iraqi medical clinic on basic emergency procedures.Iraqi Expert Field Medical Batch training is a four-week course offered to Iraqi medics in order to provide the experience they will need in

  • Airmen help thousands in Philippines

    Operation Pacific Angel 10-1 officially ended Feb. 22 after seven days of civic assistance projects here that provided medical care to nearly 14,000 patients, veterinary care to more than 3,300 animals, and new classrooms for approximately 480 local children.Operation Pacific Angel is a joint and

  • Air Force officials remain vigilant in PTSD treatment

    With a commitment to taking care of Airmen and their families, Air Force officials said they will maintain a focus on the prevention, mitigation and treatment of deployment-related post-traumatic stress disorder.Air Force officials use a three-pronged approach to promote psychological health and

  • Medical teams, volunteers help patients during weather-related delays

    Airmen from the 375th Aeromedical Staging Flight quickly assembled to receive 44 patients, 22 of them on litters, after an aeromedical flight originating in Germany had to divert Feb. 7, here, because of more than 20 inches of snow in Washington D.C.These 44 patients joined several others who were

  • PACAF commander presents medallion to World War II nurse

    Gen. Gary North, Pacific Air Forces commander, presented a medal to a member of the "Greatest Generation" during a ceremony here Feb. 5.Doris Avery accepted the Noncommissioned Officers' Association World War II Veterans Medallion, for her service as a lieutenant in the Army Nurse Corps during World

  • New radiation oncology clinic opens in March

    The staff of Keesler Medical Center's new radiation oncology clinic is gearing up to begin treating patients in March, said Maj. (Dr.) Clayton Chen, 81st Medical Operations Squadron chief of radiation oncology. Plans are already underway for a formal ribbon-cutting for the new facility in the near

  • Medical teams render assistance after Afghanistan avalanches

    A series of avalanches struck a high pass in the Parwan Province of Afghanistan and reportedly killed or injured hundreds of Afghan travelers. The avalanches, which occurred Feb. 8 and 9th, cut off a major route between Kabul and northern Afghanistan. Afghan doctors and coalition members of Task