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Women's health remains priority for doctors turned medical museum volunteers | Health.mil

Women's health remains priority for doctors turned medical museum volunteers | Health.mil

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Women's health remains priority for doctors turned medical museum volunteers

The National Museum of Health and Medicine promotes the science and history of medicine, with a special emphasis on tri-service American military medicine. The museum identifies, collects and preserves important and unique resources to support a broad agenda of innovative exhibits, educational programs and scientific, historical and medical research. The museum maintains a national landmark collection of objects that sustains and promotes military medical history, tradition, and research to the Department of Defense and civilian communities. (NMHM graphic)

The National Museum of Health and Medicine promotes the science and history of medicine, with a special emphasis on tri-service American military medicine. The museum identifies, collects and preserves important and unique resources to support a broad agenda of innovative exhibits, educational programs and scientific, historical and medical research. The museum maintains a national landmark collection of objects that sustains and promotes military medical history, tradition, and research to the Department of Defense and civilian communities. (NMHM graphic)



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10/23/2018
Air Force Lt. Col. Michelle Nash is joined by her husband and three of her four children at the Think Pink Fun Run, a breast cancer awareness event held earlier this month at the U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado. (Courtesy photo)
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Military Midwives Advance Medicine

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Military midwives as educators

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10/15/2018
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10/11/2018
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Military Midwives in Leadership Roles

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10/5/2018
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10/4/2018
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Military medical museum archives acquires historic hospital newspaper series

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8/30/2018
Trenton Streck-Havill, assistant archivist in the National Museum of Health and Medicine’s Otis Historical Archives (OHA), finishes identifying Service Stripe newspaper source photos by searching through film negatives from the Walter Reed Army Medical Center Archives that are included in the OHA’s collections. In May 2018, the OHA acquired 64 bound volumes of Service Stripe and 87 bound volumes of Stripe from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. The weekly newspaper ceased publication in 2011. (National Museum of Health and Medicine photo by Matthew Breitbart)
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5/1/2018
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Navy Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Robert Hall studies a blood sample with a microscope at Naval Branch Health Clinic Kings Bay’s laboratory. Blood tests and pap smears are commonly used ways to diagnose sexually transmitted infections. (U.S. Navy photo by Jacob Sippel)
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Fort Belvoir corpsman comes through for moms

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4/20/2018
Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Talena Epling proudly serves in her role as a Fort Belvoir Community Hospital board-certified lactation consultant, a rarity among enlisted service members. (Department of Defense photos by Reese Brown)
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The fight against cervical cancer

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1/24/2018
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1/18/2018
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Cold weather injuries during deployments, July 2012 – June 2017

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1/18/2018
During the 5-year surveillance period, 105 cold weather injuries were diagnosed and treated in service members deployed outside the U.S. of these, 39 (37%) were immersion injuries; 33 (31%) were frostbite; 16 (15%) were hypothermia; and 17 (16%) were “unspecified” cold weather injuries. Pie chart for cold weather injuries during deployments displays depicting the information above. Number of cold weather injuries bar chart: Of all 105 cold weather injuries during the surveillance period, 68% occurred during the first two cold seasons. Bar chart shows the number of cold weather injuries by year: • 2012-2013 cold season had 35 cold weather injuries • 2013-2014 cold season had 100 cold weather injuries • 2014 -2015 cold season had 13 cold weather injuries • 2015-2016 cold season had 11 cold weather injuries • 2016 – 2017 had 10 cold weather injuries Access the full report in the October 2017 MSMR (Vol. 24, No. 10). Go to: www.Health.mil/MSMR #ColdReadiness
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