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The Military Health System (MHS) is an interconnected network of Service Members whose mission is to support the lives and families of those who support our country. Everyday in the MHS advancements are made in the lab, in the field, and here at home. These are just a few articles highlighting those accomplishments that don't always make it to the front page of local papers.

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Years of blood and tissue samples helps DoD make major contribution to Cancer Moonshot

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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.

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

Mixing supplements and medications

Article
10/20/2016
Interactions between drugs and supplements can result in either an increase or decrease in the effectiveness of your medications. In other words, you could be getting too much or too little of the medications that you need, which can be dangerous to your health. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Hailey R. Staker)

Interactions between drugs and supplements can result in either an increase or decrease in the effectiveness of your medications

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Human Performance Resource Center, Integrative Wellness, TRICARE Pharmacy Program

Prostate Cancer: What you should know

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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)

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

Army honors wounded, ill and injured Soldiers during Warrior Care Month

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10/19/2016
November is Warrior Care Month

Each November the Army honors wounded, ill and injured Soldiers and their families by commemorating Warrior Care Month

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Warrior Care

Navy Shock Trauma Platoon rehearses pediatric care, procedures

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10/18/2016
A series of Broselow pediatric emergency kits, weight-based resuscitation medical kits for children, lie atop a stretcher during pediatric malady training. Shock Trauma Platoon, Combat Logistics Battalion 31, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit conducted the training during PHIBLEX 33 to prepare its Sailors to treat child patients. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Tiffany Edwards)

U.S. Navy medical officers and corpsmen conducted pediatric malady training

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Health Readiness, Children's Health

Bono to women surgeons: Leadership means helping everyone live up to their potential

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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.

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.

Navy Medicine is prepared to care for women at sea

Article
10/17/2016
Navy Medicine treats and prevents women’s health issues around the world, including ships at sea, using innovative technology and research. The fleet ensures that its ships are equipped to support basic women’s health needs. While the depth of resources depends on the size and mission of each ship, all are equipped with emergency and routine birth control options, basic testing for sexually transmitted infections, equipment for well-woman exams and sick call examinations, and most importantly a professionally trained medical provider. (U.S. Navy photo)

Navy Medicine treats and prevents women’s health issues around the world, including at sea, using innovative technology and research

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Health Readiness, Women's Health

International leaders to discuss 21st century military health, warrior care priorities

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10/17/2016
National flags representing the 13 countries who attended the 2015 Warrior Care in the 21st Century symposium were on display at last year's event in Bethesda, Maryland

Established in 2015, the Warrior Care in the 21st Century coalition simplifies global sharing of warrior care best practices and lessons learned

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Warrior Care

Ten defendants charged in $100 Million TRICARE fraud scheme

Article
10/17/2016
Image of the TRICARE logo.

Special agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Defense Criminal Investigative Service arrested nine defendants this week in connection with their roles in a $100 million health care fraud conspiracy perpetrated against TRICARE

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TRICARE Health Program, TRICARE Pharmacy Program, Program Integrity, Program Integrity

Fight Song: Army singer belts out beautiful tune despite PTSD

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10/17/2016
Army Staff Sgt. Tierra Brown, a 392nd Army Band vocalist, was seen by millions singing the National Anthem during the CNN Town Hall with President Barack Obama at Fort Lee, Virginia, Sept. 28. Brown, a Soldier of 14 years, has battled post-traumatic stress disorder for years. (U.S. Army photo by T. Anthony Bell)

Army Staff Sgt. Tierra Brown sang the national anthem to open the nationally televised CNN town hall featuring President Barack Obama

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Military health cybersecurity officials warn of possible pitfalls of easy access to information

Article
10/14/2016
woman looking at a laptop

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.

Bono to AFCEA: New electronic health record is key for future of engaging military health patients

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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)

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

Army Medicine fights cancer with advanced treatments

Article
10/13/2016
Early detection of the breast cancer can provide early treatment for the service member and or their beneficiaries. For those women diagnosed with localized (Stage 1) breast cancer there is a more than 98 percent probability that they will survive five or more years. (U.S. Air Force photo by L.A. Shively)

Army Medicine is diagnosing and treating service members with cancer using state-of-the-art techniques and tools that many civilian hospitals can't provide

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Women's Health, Military Hospitals and Clinics

Organized chaos: Corpsmen conduct hands-on training

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10/13/2016
Navy corpsmen treat a notional casualty during a training evolution on Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. The Navy Medical Augmentation Program Sustainment Training brings corpsmen from up and down the east coast to Camp Lejeune to get hands-on training. The corpsmen are all attached to the 2nd Medical Battalion but are assigned at different stations throughout the east coast. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Jon Sosner)

Corpsmen converged on Camp Lejeune for the Navy Medical Augmentation Program Sustainment Training where they practiced skills unique to a combat zone

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Health Readiness

MHS GENESIS to launch in February 2017

Article
10/13/2016
Genesis Logo

The initial deployment of MHS GENESIS, the Military Health System’s electronic health record, will take place at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., in February 2017

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Military Health System Electronic Health Record, MHS GENESIS, Electronic Health Record Modernization & Interoperability
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