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On the Front Line of Improving Treatment for Wounded Warriors
By Dr. Madelaine Paredes, research scientist, NAMRU-SA, Combat Casualty Care and Operational Medicine I was determined to pursue a career in science, so I decided to join the Cellular and Structural...
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Adaptive Treatment for Wounded, Ill, and Injured Sailors and Marines
By Helen Metzger, Health and Wellness Department Head at Naval Medical Center San Diego, and Health Promotion and Wellness Department at Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center At NMCSD, we provide...
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Intrepid Dynamic Exoskeletal Orthosis
By Brian Zalewski and Richard Miltenberger, Naval Medical Center San Diego Comprehensive Combat and Complex Casualty Care Our team goal at Comprehensive Combat and Complex Casualty Care is to treat...
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Adaptive Treatment for Wounded, Ill, and Injured Sailors and Marines
By Ms. Helen Metzger, Health and Wellness Department Head at Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD), and the Health Promotion and Wellness (HPW) Department at Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center...
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Top 10 of 2014
Navy Medicine is a global health care network of more than 63,000 Navy medical personnel around the world who provide high quality health care to more than one million eligible beneficiaries. Our...
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Supporting the Wounded Warrior Pacific Trials
By Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Krystal Cavett The trials have brought together approximately 60 seriously wounded, ill and injured Sailors and Coast Guardsmen from across the country. HM1 Cavett helps...
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Restoring and Optimizing Human Functional Mobility
Physical therapy focuses on restoring and optimizing human functional mobility. By Lt. David Groves, Naval Hospital Guam Keeping a machine running at optimal performance requires ongoing maintenance....
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Navy Medicine Perspective: Moral Injury
By Lt. Cmdr. Miller Kerr, MD, psychiatry resident and Lt. Cmdr. Mathew Rariden, staff psychologist at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth Wounds of war are not always physical – they can be psychological,...
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Navy Medicine Researcher Studies Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
By Lt. Jacob Norris Banner3-284×138 Dr. Usmah Kawoos and Lt. Norris review how the neurotrauma department applies telemetry in monitoring the physiological response to blast-induced traumatic brain...
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Celebrating National Nurses Week 2015
Today the Navy Nurse Corps is comprised of more than 4,200 Sailors and 1,200 civilians working in diverse health care settings around the world. By Rear Adm. Rebecca McCormick-Boyle, commander, Navy...
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Is It OK To Drink After A Concussion?
A concussion – also known as a mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) – is a disruption of normal brain function that occurs when the skull is hit, suddenly thrust out of position, penetrated, or struck by...
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Warrior Games: Two Corpsmen and a Navy Doctor Pt. 1
By Steve Van Der Werff, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Throughout the games, the athletes stayed positive, supported each other and acknowledged their physical and medical challenges as the...
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Take Steps to Protect Yourself From the Sun
By Lt. Cmdr. Richard Langton, division officer, Occupational Health Medicine Division, Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center Skin cancer usually occurs in men above the age of 50, but...
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Warrior Games: Two Corpsmen and a Navy Doctor Pt. 2
By Steve Van Der Werff, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Combat wounded and second year competitor retired Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class (FMF) Nate Hamilton competes for the many friends who will...
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Warrior Games: Two Corpsmen and a Navy Doctor Pt. 3
By Steve Van Der Werff, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Durakovich joined the Navy nearly three years ago in 2012, opting for what the Navy had to offer: a sense of pride, discipline and a...
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Warrior Games: Two Corpsmen and a Navy Doctor Pt. 4
By Steve Van Der Werff, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Meet Cmdr. John C. Biery, Jr., commander, Naval Instillations Command (CNIC), Navy Wounded Warrior – Safe Harbor senior medical advisor...
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Navy Clinical Psychologist Makes a Difference for Military Families
By Jenny Collins, Naval Center for Combat & Operational Stress Control Public Affairs When a child is physically hurt, they go to a nurse or physician to help them heal. When a child is mentally or...
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A Medical Device for the Ages: Historical Notes on Admiral Stokes’ Stretcher
By André B. Sobocinski, historian, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Unlike “ambulance cots” and “transferring boards” that were commonly used by the Navy at the end of the nineteenth century,...
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I am Navy Medicine: Capt. Jonathan M. Stahl, DC
I serve as a full-time biomedical researcher at the Naval Medical Research Unit in San Antonio (NAMRU-SA). A few words from a Navy Medicine Research Dentist Just over twenty years ago as a new dental...
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NCCOSC Contributes to Medical Research
By Naval Center for Combat & Operational Stress Control Public Affairs Capt. Scott Johnston, NCCOSC director, discusses electronic data capture for improving patient care at the 2014 Combat &...
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