Air Force Identifies Seemingly Higher Rate of Rare Brain Cancer Among Children at New Mexico Base A new Air Force study has found what appears to be a higher rate of a rare brain and spinal cord cancer among children of...
Veteran Prescriptions for Addictive ADHD Drugs Are Not Being Properly Vetted and Tracked, Watchdog Says The inspector general found that VA providers aren't always documenting patient assessments before prescribing the stimulant...
Vets Say Weight Loss Drugs Have Improved Their Health, But New Patients Are Out of Luck Wegovy patients at the VA say the medication has turned their health around and erased their once-constant "food noise." But...
Defense Department to Begin Tracking Drug Overdoses, Providing Antidote Drug Naloxone Previously, overdoses within the military -- fatal and non-fatal -- weren't systematically tracked.
Military Couples Trying to Start Families Face Fear, Frustration Following Alabama Fertility Care Ruling Some service members and their spouses are concerned they may soon be forced to choose between military service and having a...
Traumatic Brain Injury Bill Calls for Sweeping Changes in Military Health Care, Training, Safety to Protect Troops The 46-page bill comes amid growing evidence that troops are at risk of exposure to potentially dangerous blasts not just...
Medical Beard Waivers Nearly Double in Air Force and Space Force in Just 3 Years Between 2021 and 2023, the number of active-duty airmen with shaving waivers due to pseudofolliculitis barbae, a skin...
An Introduction to 'Intuitive Eating' and a Better Relationship with Food Maybe instead of thinking about our food options as "good" or "bad" and feeling the guilt associated with "cheating on the...
More Specialty Drugs Cost Less with New Pharmacy's Addition to Tricare Home Delivery Tricare beneficiaries with prescriptions for specialty drugs can now get more of them at the lower copays of Tricare Home...
Pentagon Policy Paying Travel Costs for Abortions, Other Health Care Was Used Only 12 Times from June to December Paying for transportation, lodging and meals for those 12 round trips from a service member's home station to the location of...
Top Enlisted Leader at Air Force Special Operations Command Fired, Facing Investigation Chief Master Sgt. Anthony Green, who advised on the readiness, training and quality of life of enlisted air commandos, was...
Army to Soldiers: Reenlist by Monday if You Want to Claim Incentives While it is not unusual for the Army to curtail incentives after meeting its retention goals, the troops were given little...
Former Air Force Commander Punished with 21 Days' Confinement, Forfeiture of Pay After Guilty Plea Col. Christopher Meeker, the former commander of Wright-Patterson's 88th Air Base Wing, was sentenced Tuesday evening after...
New Air Force Academy Mission Statement Drops Educate, Adds a Different Focus The Air Force Academy has rolled out a new mission statement that drops the word "educate" and adds in a focus on winning...
The Army Is Getting Rid of Athletic Trainers The Army is set to phase out its unit-level athletic trainers -- civilian specialists tasked with providing immediate care...
