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DHA's e-caregiver directory puts resources at your fingertips

The Defense Health Agency's electronic Caregiver Resource Directory provides more than 2,000 resources for caregivers of wounded warriors within three taps on their mobile phone, their computer, or tablet.
When your friend is having a tough time and you don’t know how to reach out, retired U.S. Public Health Service Capt. (Dr.) Joshua Morganstein, deputy director at the Center for Study of Traumatic Stress in the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences and vice chair of the University’s department of psychiatry, offers three tips: (1) Set the stage for a conversation. (2) Find the words. (3) Follow-up. (Photo By Sara Barger, MHS Communications)
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Ask the Doc: Mental health tips for you or a loved one

Below are different scenarios military service members can experience. For each scenario, we share a key video from Morganstein’s mental health series with answers.
A sign for the Military and Veterans Crisis Line reading “Dial 988 then Press 1” at the entrance to the Nebraska National Guard air base in Lincoln, Nebraska, on Sept. 9, 2022. If you or someone you know is experiencing thoughts of suicide, you are not alone and someone is always available to listen. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Lisa Crawford).
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988 Crisis Line: 1 million veterans, service members called in a year

This article deals with suicide. If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, call the 988 National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline and press “1”, or text 838255, or chatfor the dedicated Veterans Crisis Line and Military Crisis Line. For Spanish, press “2”.
As the holiday season approaches, the Armed Services Blood Program invites you to give a gift that transcends monetary value—the gift of life by donating blood. (credit: Swati Agane)
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This holiday, give one priceless gift of life: Donate blood

The holiday season is a time when we come together to celebrate with our loved ones and exchange special gifts. For many, there is one gift that means the most to those you never meet—the act of donating blood, which gives the gift of life.
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How do chiropractors know which vertebra to adjust?

An examiner’s use of the sense of touch to gain clinical information is called palpation. In chiropractic palpation, the examiner is usually searching for significant asymmetries.
The Warfighter Brain Health Initiative specifically focuses on assessing cognitive capabilities, monitoring brain threats, to include blast overpressure, and minimizing the effects and risk from exposures and TBIs to improve a warfighter’s overall performance.
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DHA Health Hazard Assessment Team doing critical work to improve Warfighter Brain Health

A little over a year ago, in June 2022, the Department of Defense launched the Warfighter Brain Health Initiative to bring together the operational and medical communities in a more unified approach toward optimizing service member brain health and countering traumatic brain injuries.
In the aftermath of a death by suicide, those left behind often benefit greatly from help processing their grief over the loss of their loved one, friend, or colleague, according to the Department of Defense Suicide Prevention Office.
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Postvention promotes healing in aftermath of death by suicide

In the aftermath of a death by suicide, those left behind often benefit greatly from help processing their grief over the loss of their loved one, friend, or colleague, according to the Department of Defense Suicide Prevention Officeopens DSPO.mil.
A GENESIS onsite instructor helps a student. Photo by Isaac Savitz
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U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa enjoys a lucky smooth transition to MHS GENESIS

U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa (USNHO) kicked off the deployment of the Military Health System's new electronic health records system, MHS GENESIS, with full steam ahead.
Amanda Lapointe, a mammography technologist at Naval Hospital Jacksonville, assists a patient during a mammogram on Sept. 15, 2023. Lapointe, a native of Jacksonville, Florida, says, “Early detection saves lives.” (U.S. Navy photo by Deidre Smith, Naval Hospital Jacksonville)
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Ask the doc: How often do I need mammograms to fight breast cancer?

I try to practice self-care, but sometimes I’m not as focused on myself as I am on my service duties and making my family’s hectic schedules work.
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Mental Notes with Hilary Valdez: Holidaze drinking

Hi beer drinkers! You may think that your poison pick is a safe bet in terms of health and sobriety, but there is more than meets the eye.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Each year, around 200,000 women get breast cancer in the U.S. (U.S. Air Force graphic by Amanda Dick)
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Breast Cancer Awareness: I’m still here 10 years later

The month of October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, but it also marks a big anniversary for me – 10 years since being diagnosed with cancer and my 10-year cancer “freeversary” in December.
U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Joshua Thomas, 33rd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron nondestructive inspection technician, uses protective eye gear while he tests aircraft equipment for surface cracks and delamination on May 5, 2021, at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. Many eye injuries sustained by service members can be prevented, according to the Defense Health Agency’s Vision Center of Excellence, (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman Colleen Coulthard)
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Preventing eye injuries improves military readiness

There are nearly 2,000 eye injuries in the U.S. each day, and almost all of these injuries can be prevented, according to the Defense Health Agency’s Vision Center of Excellenceopens Vision Center of Excellence.
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Real life falls not a laughing matter; protect your body, ego

TV and cartoons typically portray slips or falls as comical accidents. But falls are no laughing matter. Falls often cause injuries that require emergency room visits.
The Brandon Act ensures any active duty service member may seek mental health assistance confidentially, for any reason, at any time, and in any environment, and aims to reduce the stigma associated with seeking mental health care. (Courtesy graphic)
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U.S. Military departments implement Brandon Act to improve mental health support

The three military departments have officially implemented phase one of the Brandon Act with their own policies and procedures to initiate support to service members’ request for mental health assistance.
The Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs have many nonclinical resources to help service members, veterans, and families 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.(Photo: Keith Pannell, U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany)
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Suicide prevention resources that can help

How can we help ourselves, loved ones, and others in the military family who may be at risk of suicide?
In this “Ask the Doc” article, learn about how HPV vaccination is the best way to prevent infection, and HPV vaccines in the U.S are highly effective at preventing infection from nine of the most serious types of HPV viruses. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend that all children get the HPV vaccine at a well-child pre-teen visit between ages 9 and 12. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Jordan Hack)
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Ask the Doc: Should my child get the HPV vaccine?

Dear Doc: I’ve heard about HPV—I know it’s a sexually transmitted disease, and can cause some health problems, but not much more.