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Why having a pet helps with anxiety

Anxiety is something that I’ve struggled with for as long as I can remember. For anyone who battles with anxiety, you know the feeling of drowning in self-doubt, constant worry, and panic attacks.
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DoD announces efforts to ensure access to reproductive health care

Today, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III announced the Department will take all appropriate action, within its authority and consistent with applicable federal law, as soon as possible to ensure that Service members and their families can access reproductive health care and health care providers can operate effectively. 
Day one of DHITS 2022 closed with a discussion about harnessing the power of data, transforming health care delivery, and clinical care at MTF’s. Photo is afternoon panel consisting of Bill Tinston, Holly Joers, Dr. Leslie Sofocleous, and Chris Ruefer (Photo by: Patrick Moore, Military Health System).
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Technology and medicine: The digital age of health care

The Defense Health Agency continues to integrate systems across the Military Health System, including the new electronic health record and other IT resources. 
Shetland, one of USU med school’s two facility dogs, gets attention and provides some fun interactions with med school students. (Photo: Courtesy of Kameha Bell, assistant dean, Well-Being Program, USU School of Medicine Office of Student Affairs)
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USU facility dogs help de-stress USU med students

Shetland and Grover’s mission is to promote wellness on campus as well as the benefits and responsible use of animal-assisted interventions in health care, referred to broadly as pet therapy.
Army Maj. (Dr.) Kayla Jaeger, Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine chief, discusses contraception options with patient, Air Force Capt. Jacqueline Wade, while Benesha Jackson, licensed vocational nurse, gathers instruments for an exam at the CPT Jennifer M. Moreno Primary Care Clinic, Fort Sam Houston, Texas. (U.S. Army photo by Jason W. Edwards)
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DOD officials: Women’s health care unchanged by supreme court decision

While last month's Supreme Court opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization means each state now makes its own laws regarding abortion services, the health care that the Defense Department provides to service members has not changed, the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness said.
U.S. Army Soldiers load a simulated patient on to a New Jersey National Guard UH-60L Black Hawk helicopter during a combat lifesaver course run by the Medical Simulation Training Center on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, April 14, 2022. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Matt Hecht)
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How health care providers can mitigate burnout

When the demands of the mission mount up, all military service members can be at risk of burnout.
Deployment Readiness Education for Servicewomen, one-stop resource for some of the most common questions and concerns that servicewomen have around deployment. (Photo: Connected Health)
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New app addresses service women's health care needs

The Deployment Readiness Education for Service women app gives service women a one-stop resource for some of the most common questions and concerns before, during, and after deployment.
Navy Lt. Cmdr. Kathryn Lipscomb, the urology department head at U.S. Naval Hospital Rota in Spain, waves to staff in USNH Naples, Italy during the first virtual cystoscopy between both hospitals in Jan 2021. (Photo: Navy Cmdr. Ryan Nations)
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Top military health care leader looks to the future of medicine

Years ago, surgeons removed patients' gall bladders by making a large incision and cutting through abdominal muscles. If the procedure went well, the patient went home about 10 days later.
Following a 2021 DHA procedural instruction to standardize clinical care processes and resources to prevent and treat post-partum hemorrhage incidents across the Military Health System, the Women’s Health Clinical Management Team drove a campaign to educate and train care staff and implement a post-partum hemorrhage bundle at 12 military hospitals in two initial waves. (Photo: Jacob Sippel, Naval Hospital Jacksonville/Released)
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How health care for new mothers is improving across the MHS

For years the Military Health System has provided new mothers with high-quality care that consistently tops the civilian health care sector.
The online, self-paced Women’s Health Transition Training provides important information for transitioning servicewomen on women’s health care services available from VA post-separation from the military (Photo by: graphic courtesy of the Department of Veterans Affairs).
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Service women: Plan for your future health care now

Service women, have you thought about how you'll get your health care after you separate from the military?
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Two breakfast recipes to get your day off to a good start

German Pancakes: 1. Break eggs into a small bowl, add the milk, salt and pepper and beat with a fork until egg yolks and whites are combined and the milk is well blended.
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Kitchen fun: Let's make pop tarts with kids

Whether you have kids or not, pop tarts are a blast to make! Scroll down just a little further to find the links to my favorite ingredients and baking tools that we used for this fun project.
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Taste of Okinawa: Start the year off with a Japanese tradition

Although there are many “good luck foods” for the new year in this world, the majority of locals in Okinawa have only one thing in their mind New Year’s Eve: Okinawa soba.
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Taste 2023 the right way: Okinawa delicacies

New Year’s is Japan’s biggest and longest holiday. People take Dec. 29 through Jan. 3 off from work to celebrate the first three days of the year praying at temples and shrines for the coming year.
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Taste 2023 the right way: Japan delicacies

New Year’s is Japan’s biggest and longest holiday. People take Dec. 29 to Jan. 3 off from work to celebrate the first three days of the year praying at temples and shrines for the coming year.
Photo by Shoji Kudaka
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Taste of Okinawa: Have a happy (and sticky) new year with Muchi

Given that it’s made from sticky rice, just like the Japanese rice cake, and how similar the names are, it’s understandable to assume mochi and Okinawan muchi are the same.