Friday Health.mil News Round-Up: The Ticking Timeline; DoD Seeks to Eliminate Stigma for Seeing Mental Health Care; Army Reserve mission provides medical training, community support

Friday Health.mil News Round-Up: The Ticking Timeline; DoD Seeks to Eliminate Stigma for Seeing Mental Health Care; Army Reserve mission provides medical training, community support

The Ticking Timeline

Last week, galvanized by the Ebola epidemic, 194 Member States of the World Health Assembly quietly, but unanimously, agreed to provide support for West African, Central African and other at-risk states to achieve the capacity they need to prevent, detect and rapidly respond to infectious disease threats by 2019. Read More ...

DoD Seeks to Eliminate Stigma for Seeing Mental Health Care

The Defense Department wants service members to know there’s no stigma in seeking mental health care, a DoD Health Affairs official said. Read More ...

Army Reserve mission provides medical training, community support

Members of the Army Reserve’s 3rd Medical Command (Deployment Support) and U.S. Navy medical Corps inventoried and packaged dental and optical kits at the 99th Regional Support Command’s Equipment Concentration Site 99 here for an Innovative Readiness Training mission. Read More ...