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Articles by Sharon Renee Taylor, Public Affairs Staff Writer, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

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Keep your mouth healthy

Article
10/25/2016
A well-balanced diet and good oral hygiene throughout your lifetime will reduce your risk of gum disease and cavities, explained Navy Capt. Kevin T. Prince, Chief of the Department of Dentistry at Walter Reed Bethesda.

A well-balanced diet and good, consistent oral hygiene will keep your mouth young and healthy

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Preventive Health

Model Program aims to prevent effects of trauma on children and families of patients

Article
9/13/2016
After 2003, a large number of injured service members, their children and families arrived to the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center and they needed Operation BRAVE Families help. (U.S. Army photo)

As a part of the injured service member’s care team, OBF receives information about who arrives to the hospital, whether they have children, how many, and if the children are at WRNMMC with the parent or not

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Preventive Health, Warrior Care

Speech-Language Pathologists aid Wounded Warriors

Article
6/16/2016
A Marine takes a hearing test (U.S. Army photo)

Up to 20 percent of military active duty service members traumatically injured during deployments who were admitted to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center exhibited difficulty swallowing and eating, a condition called dysphagia

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Admiral talks healthy aging

Article
8/13/2015
Navy Rear Adm. Raquel Bono, a physician and director of the Defense Health Agency’s (DHA) National Capital Region Medical Directorate, speaks at the Healthy Aging Summit in Washington, D.C., July 27, 2015. (Photo by Sharon Renee Taylor, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Public Affairs)

Navy Rear Adm. Raquel Bono, a physician and director of the Defense Health Agency’s (DHA) National Capital Region Medical Directorate, told attendees of the Healthy Aging Summit that what we do now affects how we will live later.

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Army nurse sails high seas on USNS Comfort

Article
7/6/2015
Operating room nurse Army Capt. Rory Walton, left, and nurse anesthetist Navy Lt. Cmdr. William Rolfes prepare to move a Salvadoran patient after surgery aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort in Acajutla, El Salvador, during Continuing Promise, June 18, 2015. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Derek Paumen

The operating room nurse assigned to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center is one of 43 Walter Reed staffers aboard the hospital ship USNS Comfort, deployed for the Continuing Promise 2015 humanitarian mission to Central America, the Caribbean and South America.

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Health Readiness

The History of US Military Nursing – Part II

Article
5/13/2015
Nurses of the Army Nurse Corps are pictured here during World War II. More than 56,000 nurses served in World War II. It was the largest group of nurses to serve in the Army Nurse Corps. Photo Credit: U.S. AMEDD, Office of Medical History

The history of military nurses is explained in the second of a three-part series by the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

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Nurses Week Special: The History of U.S. Military Nursing

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5/11/2015
Pictured in 1864 are Civil War volunteer nurse Abby Gibbons of New York City, her daughter Sarah and officers in the main eastern theater of war, Grant's Wilderness Campaign. (Courtesy: Library of Congress)

Part I of a series to honor Nurses Week, May 6 – 12, will review the early history of the military nurse, along with the role of nurses in the Revolutionary War, the Civil War and the Spanish-American War.

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Binding Wounds, Fighting to Serve: African-Americans in Military Medicine

Article
2/24/2015
In 1970, Dr. Joseph Alexander (second from right) led a team of five other transplant surgeons at the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., to perform the Army's first kidney transplant operation. (Walter Reed Army Medical Center Photo)

In the final part of our series, we look at African-Americans’ service after integration in the U.S. military’s medical services.

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Military Medical History

Binding Wounds, Fighting to Serve: African-Americans in Military Medicine

Article
2/11/2015
African-American nurses exit a plane at Tuskegee Army Air Field. Approximately 29 black nurses served at the air field. (Tuskegee Army Nurses Project)

In part two of our series, we look at African-Americans’ service in the U.S. military’s medical services

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Military Medical History

Binding Wounds, Fighting to Serve: African-Americans in Military Medicine

Article
1/30/2015
Fugitive slaves, known as "contraband" worked for the Union Army as nurses, cooks, laundresses, and laborers. Pictured are contraband who served with the 13th Massachusetts Infantry from 1863-1865. (U.S. Military History Institute)

In the first of a series, we look at the history of African-Americans through the Civil War.

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Heart Health, Military Medical History
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