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Articles by Yan Kennon, Naval Hospital Jacksonville

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Women’s health essential to force readiness

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10/11/2016
Women with a U.S. Marine Female Engagement Team operating in Europe demonstrated their capabilities in Marine Corps martial arts, non-lethal weapons, foreign weapons handling and combat lifesaving to Romanian and U.S. Women comprise more than 27 percent of U.S. Marine Corps and Navy personnel, making women’s health essential to force readiness. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Michelle Reif)

Women comprise more than 16 percent of U.S. Navy, and 6 percent of Marine Corps personnel respectively

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Take charge for Men's Health Month

Article
6/8/2016
Navy Lt. Blair Townsend, Naval Branch Health Clinic, Kings Bay undersea medical officer, checks the heart rhythm of Navy Fire Control Technician 1st Class Nicholas Mershon, from USS Georgia.

June is Men's Health Month, a time to encourage early detection and treatment of disease

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Naval Hospital Jacksonville kicks-off 2016 mentoring program

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11/13/2015
Matthew Alderman (center), a Darnell-Cookman School of the Medical Arts student, observes Navy Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Daniel Anderson (right), of Naval Hospital Jacksonville’s physical therapy department, performing lower-back therapy on Allyson VanHook. Alderman is participating in the hospital’s annual Science, Service, Medicine and Mentoring (S2M2) program. The program allows selected students to receive real-world experiences in patient care areas—from the operating room and emergency department to pharmacy and physical and occupational therapy. (U.S. Navy file photo by Jacob Sippel).

Eight Naval Hospital Jacksonville clinicians – a pharmacist, dentist, general surgeon, nurse, obstetrician/gynecologist, independent duty corpsman and two family medicine physicians – shared their stories in Navy medicine

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