• Air Force Military Treatment Facilities pilot medical readiness

    Air Force Medicine has a non-stop global readiness mission. Medical Airmen must be prepared to deploy on short notice to provide life-saving and performance-enhancing healthcare in diverse, austere, and isolated locations, and all Airmen must be medically ready to deploy. To achieve this readiness

  • Pet Therapy provides comfort for both patients and staff

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The 88th Medical Group in partnership with the Miami Valley Pet Therapy Association, offers pet therapy for their patients and staff members to help reduce stress, ease anxieties and reduce loneliness.  “From the fearful child getting bloodwork drawn, to a

  • New annual Mental Health Assessment requirement begins July 31

    Starting July 31, 2017, Airmen undergoing their annual Periodic Health Assessment may notice something new. A Mental Health Assessment will now be part of every annual PHA, to help ensure that Airmen suffering from undiagnosed mental health issues are referred to the necessary care. Mental health

  • 88th Dental Lab solves problem for ejection seat research

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- The subjects of dental appliances and ejection seats may seem worlds apart to most, but for two Wright-Patterson Air Force Base organizations they met to solve a persistent research obstacle at the 711th Human Performance Wing.It was Tech. Sgt. Jeffery

  • Respiratory therapist now battlefield medic

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- An explosion near his quarters while he was deployed to Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, on Nov. 12, 2016, set Senior Airman Joshua O’Sullivan into motion.There was no hesitation from the respiratory therapist from the 88th Medical Group, Wright-Patterson Air

  • New Air Force health mobile app available for patients

    The Air Force Medical Service has launched a new mobile app to connect Airmen and patients to news and information about the AFMS. The new app is a mobile version of the AFMS website, and lets users customize their experience based on the Air Force military treatment facility (MTF) they use. This

  • One of the most important doctors you’ll never meet

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – It started in the stairwell of a New York City subway station. “So, I was coming up out of the subway and I was climbing up the stairs. Some of the stations in the city have huge flights of stairs,” said Maj. (Dr.) Luisa Watts.Then a civilian, Watts was

  • Nephrology Clinic provides treatment and care of kidney disease

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The 88th Medical Group nephrology clinic offers evaluation and treatment of renal (kidney) diseases. The most common conditions patients are seen for at the clinic are chronic kidney disease, elevated creatinine, acute kidney injury, hypertension, and kidney

  • Red Cross volunteers help Airmen at base medical center, overseas

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The Red Cross service to the armed forces helps military members, veterans and their families prepare for, cope with and respond to the challenges of military service. Emergency communications, training, support to wounded warriors and veterans, and access to