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2022 DEC 3 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- Fresh data on military and defense are presented in a new report. [...]

Home The annual rate of inflation, impelled by energy costs, rose to 9 per cent, its highest since 1982. Unemployment fell to 1.2 million, 3.7 per cent, its lowest since [...]

The United States has been involved in armed conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan over the last 12 years, (1) and during this time there have been changes in the nature [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When most people think of the Battle of the Plans of Abraham, they picture a confrontation between two generals, Louis-Joseph de Montcalm and James Wolfe. This […]

BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq--It's 4 a.m. at one of the busiest trauma centers in the world and Capt. Shelly Garceau, an emergency room nurse, is finally taking a breather. Moments […]

It is not something normally associated with the sprawling campus at the United States Military Academy at West Point, with its towering buildings and thousands of cadets running from class [...]

PFC. Kevin Henderson turned his back to the crowd and began to walk. The damp grass colored the tips of his brown leather boots chocolate. The sun, off to his […]

THE face of the Army in Europe has been changing dramatically since the fall of communism nearly two decades ago. U.S. installations have closed as a result of the Department […]

Insurgents aren't the only enemies you face in Southwest Asia. You'll also be battling ticks, mites, chiggers, mosquitoes and other biting insects. One of the worst threats comes from sand [...]

Treating a patient who has suffered a traumatic wound in a sterile environment can be very stressful, But trying to provide medical care for an injured person in ice-cold rain, […]

The biggest fear that most brave men and women who volunteer to serve our country through military service have is that they could be killed in action while fighting overseas, [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IT'S fair to say that 2007 was a year of challenges and changes for Army medicine. Army medical personnel responded to the challenges with determination and energy and […]

I come from a family with a long history of serving its country. My dad was a marine, my brother a sailor, one grandfather a soldier, the other a sailor, [...]

Practice nurses help in promoting health in the armed and military forces. They are required to provide primary and community care for the British soldiers and their families, to run the nurse-led clinics, to assist with occupational medicals, health promotion and staff low-dependency beds.

SERGEANT 1st Class Vince Jacques dangled upside down with his legs trapped under the dashboard of the Humvee in which he'd been riding. The vehicle was a mangled mess after […]

SOLDIERS and their Families are entitled to the same quality of life afforded the society they are pledged to defend. The mission of the Army's Family and Morale, Welfare and […]

Allegations of poor care for wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center has led lawmakers to express bipartisan outrage during five oversight hearings and pressurize top Army officials for drastic changes. Congressional Democrats suggest the situation is due to the administration's lack of prewar planning, but few concrete solutions are forthcoming on the issue.

Since 1881, Samaritan Medical Center (SMC) has dedicated itself to meeting the diverse medical needs of northern New York. In 2006, we will celebrate its 125th anniversary. The hospital has [...]

The Armed Services YMCA could mark the month of April as its 144th birthday. Although historians can trace the Y's history with the armed services back further, it was in […]

LASER eye surgery has become increasingly popular in the United States and abroad, as more people share their positive stories about being able to see without cumbersome glasses or contact […]

Six people ran to help Cpl. Nathan Cirillo. They were strangers back then. They are not now. On Oct.22, a beautiful fall day, Barbara Winters, Margaret Lerhe and Martin Magnan--all [...]

In December 1943 Prime Minister Winston Churchill was homeward bound after meetings in the Middle East. He was 69 years old, overweight, and a drinker and smoker with a bad [...]