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  • 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.

  • Airman’s project receives top honor for improving patient care

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Evidence-based practice is an approach to improve a process for patient care based on current data and practices. After observing a procedure the nurses and medical technicians provided patients at the 88th Medical Group, one Airman’s curiosity has earned her

  • Secure Messaging makes communicating with your Air Force doctor simple

    In today’s connected world, we expect most communication to be convenient and instantaneous. Why should communicating with your health provider be any different? That is why the Air Force Medical Service offers a secure messaging platform for patients and families to communicate safely and quickly

  • Healthy eating starts with taking small steps

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – In conjunction with March’s National Nutrition Month, the 88th Medical Group Nutrition Clinic is offering tips on how to achieve a healthier eating lifestyle. The United States Department of Agriculture recommends each meal should include whole grains, lean

  • Unseen threads run through historic career

    A background which includes threads of both typical and atypical events, led to the appointment of Col. Robert Marks, Headquarters Air Force Materiel Command Surgeon, as the first male Nurse Corps general officer, as well as the first male chief nurse of the Air Force Nurse Corps.