• C-STARS visit highlights trauma training

    Assessing and treating critically injured warfighters is no easy task for Air Force medics with two feet firmly planted on the ground. At 35,000 feet in the air, the ability to provide care is even more of a challenge, requiring in-depth, realistic training and readiness for medic team success. The

  • 2017 Drinking Water Confidence Report Released

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The Bioenvironmental Engineering Office at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base recently released the 2017 Drinking Water Consumer Confidence Report, and its findings confirm the base drinking water systems meet all health standards for the U.S. and Ohio

  • Retiring Surgeon General saw revolution in expeditionary care

    Air Force Medicine has changed significantly since 1986, when Lt. Gen. Mark Ediger left his family medicine practice in Missouri to join the Air Force. Ediger, the U.S. Air Force Surgeon General, retires June 1, after a 32-year career that took him around the world, through numerous postings and

  • Medical Airmen recognized as 2018 Heroes of Military Medicine

    On May 3, the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine recognized four distinguished medical Airmen for their dedication to our nation’s service members at the 2018 Heroes of Military Medicine Awards held in Washington, D.C.

  • Nurse Transition Program Celebrates 10 years at UC Medical Center

    CINCINNATTI, Ohio – UC Health Cardiac Nurse Elaine Philipp hasn’t forgotten the three weeks in 2007 that her son, then a Marine Corps member, spent in a Baghdad hospital after he was injured in an explosion. It was three weeks that Philipp had to rely on strangers on the other side of the world to

  • Research network works to combat number one disability claim among veterans

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Military service often requires duty in noisy environments that can cause hearing loss and it doesn’t just happen during combat operations at deployed locations far from home station.From flight line operations to firearms qualification ranges, aircraft

  • Air Force lab puts medical devices through their paces

    “We break stuff,” said Lt. Col. Brandi Ritter, chief of the Air Force Medical Evaluation Support Activity, showing off the facility where her unit tests the devices medical Airmen use to complete their mission.