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10/26/2016
![Dr. Karen Guice, Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, provided remarks at the first day of the second annual Warrior Care in the 21st Century Symposium in Tampa, Florida. “We fight together and we heal together,” she said of the collaborative approach and engagement that was represented by attendees. “Sharing our approaches and our research in solving the kind of problems that lead to innovative ways to address and solve each one together – this work never stops. Now is not the time to become complacent or reduce our focus, nor is it the time to limit investments.” (Courtesy photo)](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20161101115004im_/https://www.health.mil/~/media/MHS/Photos/DSC_0033a.ashx?mw=120)
Karen Guice, Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, along with James Rodriguez Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Office of Warrior Care Policy, Office of the Secretary of Defense provided opening remarks for attendees
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Warrior Care
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10/21/2016
![Image of the TRICARE logo.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20161101115004im_/https://www.health.mil/~/media/MHS/Photos/TRICARE%20Logo.ashx?mw=120)
The Defense Health Agency updated its policies, making 25 additional laboratory developed tests available to TRICARE patients
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TRICARE Health Program
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10/20/2016
![Army Col. Craig Shriver is director of the John P. Murtha Cancer Center at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20161101115004im_/https://www.health.mil/~/media/MHS/Photos/shriver%20cancer.ashx?mw=120)
For more than 25 years, the military has collected and stored blood serum from all of its members and tissues from many. All that material is now playing a key role in the national Cancer Moonshot.
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Armed Forces Health Surveillance Branch, DoD Serum Repository
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10/19/2016
![Air Force Master Sgt. Sam Mullins, second from the left, participated in an organized event earlier in September to raise awareness for prostate cancer. He was joined by his wife, Sharon, and his children, Audrey and Ethan. Dr. Matthew Stringer, far left, who helped operate on Mullin’s cancer, participated in the event as well. (Photo Courtesy of Sam Mullins)](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20161101115004im_/https://www.health.mil/~/media/MHS/Photos/Prostate%20Cancer%20Awareness.ashx?mw=120)
Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers among men. Here’s what the experts want you to know about it
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Preventive Health, Men's Health
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10/18/2016
![Navy Vice Adm. Raquel Bono, director of the Defense Health Agency, talks to the Association of Women Surgeons meeting in Washington, D.C.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20161101115004im_/https://www.health.mil/~/media/MHS/Photos/BonoAWS.ashx?mw=120)
Navy Vice Adm. Raquel Bono, director of the Defense Health Agency, related her story of how she became a female surgeon during the Association of Women Surgeons meeting in Washington, D.C.
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10/14/2016
![woman looking at a laptop](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20161101115004im_/https://www.health.mil/~/media/MHS/Photos/cybersecurity.ashx?mw=120)
There’s more information than ever before available online. While there are advantages to that, Military Health System officials warn to be careful with the data.
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10/14/2016
![Navy Vice Adm. Raquel Bono, director of the Defense Health Agency, said military members have to be ready to go anywhere in the world on short notice. To help solve the complexity of care with that readiness aspect, Bono pointed to the Military Health System’s new electronic health record, MHS GENESIS, as key to helping conversations between doctors and patients, no matter where people are. (Courtesy photo)](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20161101115004im_/https://www.health.mil/~/media/MHS/Photos/afcea.ashx?mw=120)
Navy Vice Adm. Raquel Bono, director of the Defense Health Agency, spoke at the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association’s Health IT Day 2016, a gathering of approximately 1,000 federal government workers, including the Departments of Defense, Veterans Affairs, and Health and Human Services, as well as private IT industry representatives.
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Technology, Military Health System Electronic Health Record, MHS GENESIS
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10/7/2016
![A sailor returning from a seven-month deployment reunites with his family. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Andre T. Richard)](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20161101115004im_/https://www.health.mil/~/media/MHS/Photos/MHS%20Deployment%20Issues%20Photo.ashx?mw=120)
While deployments can be stressful on the families of those deployed, there are a few tips families can follow to help alleviate some of the stress and resources they can turn to for support
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Mental Health Care, Deployment Health
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