Story by Janet A. Aker | Defense Health Agency | 03.27.2024
Pregnancy and hormones play a role in women’s increased risk of heart disease and life expectancy.
Story by Bernard Little | Walter Reed National Military Medical Center | 03.11.2024
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center physicians, Army Lt. Col. (Dr.) John Symons, a cardiac electrophysiologist, and Army Maj. (Dr.) John Schacht, Walter Reed genetics chief, are credited with saving the life of a local gym patron after he suffered a heart attack while working out....
Story by Douglas Stutz | Naval Hospital Bremerton/Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Bremerton | 09.19.2022
By Douglas H Stutz, NHB/NMRTC Bremerton public affairs officer -- After suffering through a serious bout of sepsis, followed by a heart attack necessitating open-heart surgery and then repair for an excruciating hernia, there was just one obvious course of recuperation for Pat Flaherty to follow....
Story by Janet A. Aker | Defense Health Agency | 02.11.2022
Heart disease and heart attacks are the number one global killer of both men and women. But women often experience symptoms other than the classic crushing chest pain and left arm pain that typically afflict men having heart attacks....
Story by Senior Airman Kristine Gruwell | 19th Airlift Wing | 10.29.2019
U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Brett Bibel, 19th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron aerospace propulsion craftsman, responded with a sense of urgency to a man showing symptoms of cardiac arrest after his rugby match in Little Rock, Arkansas, October 5, 2019....
Courtesy Story | U.S. Army Fort Lee | 08.13.2019
FORT LEE, Va. (Aug. 13, 2019) -– “They are truly good Samaritans,” proclaimed Rev. Michael Fields, senior pastor at Newville Baptist Church, Waverly. “Lt. Col. (Keil) Scott and his wife, Rosalyn, literally saved Phil Romeo’s life. What a blessing this is.”...
Story by Sgt. Austin Pearce | South Dakota National Guard Public Affairs | 09.14.2017
It’s a Monday morning in June and two South Dakota Army National Guard Soldiers are at the track at Sioux Park in Rapid City for an Army Physical Fitness Test. Two minutes of push-ups, two minutes of sit-ups, and a two-mile run – something Sgt. David Rodarte has done at least twice a year since joining the National Guard more than 13 years ago. Released by the SD National Guard Public......
Story by Kristen Long | Alexander T. Augusta Military Medical Center | 02.15.2017
On September 23, 2016, the Pentagon’s DiLorenzo TRICARE Health Clinic (DTHC) Emergency Response Team 1 was called to respond to a 911 emergency at the Pentagon Athletic Center (PAC) racquetball courts. The lifesaving DTHC Emergency Response Team was honored in an award ceremony at the clinic on February 9, 2017....
