Mental Health Disorders are Leading Cause of Hospital Bed Days and Second...
Mental Health disorders are the leading cause of hospital bed days and the second leading cause of medical encounters among active component service members in the U.S. Military, according to a new study.
View ArticleA New Study Shows Residing in High Altitude Military Facilities Protects...
SILVER SPRING, MD, April 16, 2014 - Overweight U.S. service members are 41 percent less likely to transition to clinical obesity when stationed at military facilities located at high altitude,...
View ArticleA New Report for First Time Examines Morbidity Burdens Among Non-Service...
The report is the first to estimate the overall morbidity burdens among non-service member beneficiaries of the MHS and was published in the April issue of Medical Surveillance Monthly Report from the...
View ArticleA New Report Estimates Numbers and Proportions of U.S. Military Service...
Approximately 1 in 29 active component U.S. military service members were in treatment for mental disorders at any given time during 2012, which is 2.5 times higher than the an estimate for 2000,...
View ArticleA New Report Finds Clinically Significant Sunburns Highest Among Female and...
Females, white non-Hispanic, and younger service members had the highest incidence rates of sunburn diagnoses among active component service members, according to a new health surveillance report...
View ArticleA New Report Examines First Reported Spread of Vaccinia Virus Through Shaving...
A 30-year-old unvaccinated male security forces student is the first reported case of spreading the smallpox vaccine virus (vaccinia) across his face by shaving after he had inadvertently acquired the...
View ArticleA New Report Examines Erectile Dysfunction Among Male Active Component...
SILVER SPRING, MD, September 30, 2014 - An average of approximately 10,000 active component service members were diagnosed with erectile dysfunction each year during a 10-year surveillance period and...
View ArticleA New Study Examines Web-Based Biosurveillance Systems in Identifying Disease...
SILVER SPRING, MD, October 20, 2014 - Little quantitative evidence exists to show that electronic event-based biosurveillance systems that gather near real-time information to identify infectious...
View ArticleService Members Diagnosed with Chronic Insomnia May Face Increased Risk of...
Service members diagnosed with chronic insomnia had a two times higher risk of developing hypertension and type II diabetes than military personnel who had not been diagnosed with the condition,...
View ArticleA New Report Shows Slight Increase in the rate of Diagnoses of Glaucoma among...
The incidence rate of diagnoses of glaucoma among service members younger than 30 years of age increased slightly during a 15-year surveillance period, most likely reflecting improved screening for the...
View ArticleMSMR Analysis Examines TBI and PTSD Diagnoses among Service Members from...
SILVER SPRING, MD, March 9, 2015 - If Department of Defense expansion of military programs and resources for diagnoses and treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury...
View ArticleMSMR Analyses Examine Illnesses and Injuries Linked to Heat Stress and...
The annual incidence rates of heat stroke, exertional rhabdomyolysis and exertional hyponatremia among service members in the active component rose slightly in 2014, according to newly released health...
View ArticleMSMR Celebrates 20th Anniversary with Analysis on Healthcare Burdens of...
SILVER SPRING, MD, April 29, 2015 - The Medical Surveillance Monthly Report (MSMR) marked its 20th anniversary this month with the publication of its annual issue examining several healthcare burden...
View ArticleMSMR Analysis Shows Increasing Rates of Joint Replacements in All Age Groups...
The overall incidence rate for joint replacements among U.S. active component service members increased during an 11-year surveillance period, and service members in their 30s and early 40s are having...
View ArticleCombating Dengue with Infectious Disease Forecasting
Dengue viruses are on the move. Spread among humans by mosquitoes, and across geographic boundaries through travel, the virus affects up to an estimated 390 million people every year around the world....
View ArticleMSMR Analysis Shows Incidence Rates for Accidental Drownings Among Service...
The annual incidence rates for accidental drownings among U.S. active component service members decreased during a 10-year surveillance period, but death rates remained relatively stable, according to...
View ArticleMSMR Analysis of Post Deployment Health Assessment Forms Indicates Risks of...
An analysis of responses to questionnaires administered to U.S. active component service members who had returned from deployment during a 7-year surveillance period found that 3.4 percent and 4.8...
View ArticleArmed Forces Health Surveillance Branch Joins Defense Health Agency
SILVER SPRING, MD, August 23, 2015 - The Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC) joins the Defense Health Agency (DHA) today, and brings its expertise in tracking injuries and illnesses among...
View ArticleHealth Surveillance Analysis Shows Service Members Diagnosed with HIV-1...
In a new analysis of military health surveillance data during 1990-2013, service members diagnosed with HIV-1 in more recent years have tended to remain on active duty longer than those who became...
View ArticleMSMR Analysis Reports Significant Increases in Incident Rates of Syphilis...
The crude annual incidence rates for syphilis among U.S. service members rose 49.1 percent over a health surveillance period from 2010 to 2014, according to a new analysis published in the September...
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