Courtesy Story | Defense Centers for Public Health-Aberdeen | 11.18.2022
Many common infections are becoming harder and sometimes impossible to treat as routine antibiotics become less effective. When antibiotics become less effective, people are then at risk of severe illness or even death from infections that have previously been curable, such as tuberculosis, pneumonia and gonorrhea....
Story by Lisa Bistreich-Wolfe | Army Research Laboratory | 05.03.2021
A new medical technology stops traumatic bleeding without requiring wound compression for Soldiers on the battlefield. Hemorrhaging is a leading cause of preventable death for Soldiers in combat. The simplicity, potential for deployability and proposed affordability of this technology under development allows Soldiers to carry a life-saving solution in their pocket....
Courtesy Story | Defense Threat Reduction Agency's Chemical and Biological Technologies Department | 10.06.2020
“I woke up with a cough and a sore throat. What should I do? Should I go to work? Should I see a doctor?” Without answers, these questions promote uncertainty, stress, and the potential for the symptoms to become worse, and during the COVID-19 pandemic, the answers are even more necessary as close to symptom onset as possible. If the cause of the illness is bacterial, then an antibiotic is......
Story by Kirstin Grace-Simons | Madigan Army Medical Center | 07.24.2020
The Armed Services Blood Bank Center-Pacific NW at Madigan Army Medical Center is supporting the Department of Defense's effort to collect 10,000 unit of convalescent plasma for the treatment of COVID-19 patients. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs Thomas McCaffery visits the center on Joint Base Lewis-McChord on July 15....
Story by Jaimi Chafin | Air Force Reserve Command | 06.06.2017
Ransomware attacks effect computers by encrypting all of the information on the devices, and the hackers demand a ransom, usually paid in the form of bitcoins, in return for the decryption key. Generally if a payment isn’t made, the hackers leave them permanently encrypted with no way to pay the ransom to unlock the encrypted files....
Story by Leejay Lockhart | Fort Campbell Public Affairs Office | 03.23.2017
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. – Since Fort Campbell’s Intrepid Spirit Center opened more than two years ago, it has allowed staff to take a multidisciplinary approach to treating traumatic brain injuries and associated conditions....
Story by Ilka Cole | 96th Test Wing | 01.13.2016
The 96th Medical Group’s laboratory provided the first-ever human-blood sample of a spirochete bacteria, borrelia turicatae, known to cause tick-borne relapsing fever to be cultured at the Centers for Disease Control....
Story by Staff Sgt. Kristen Duus | 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division | 04.16.2015
Imagine falling asleep one night and waking up six weeks later, missing a leg. That is exactly what happened to 1st Lt. Christopher Parks, a physician assistant, now recovering at the Warrior Transition Battalion at Fort Hood....
