Navy Medicine has conducted its first pilot test of the Operational Medicine Care Delivery Platform (OpMed CDP) aboard the ...

Children often follow in the footsteps of their parents and Angela Stanley, a retired commander in the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps is no exception. She spent two years in Okinawa, Japan during her military ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Rear Adm. Rebecca McCormick-Boyle, Navy chief of staff, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, and a 1981 graduate of the UB School of Nursing, recently came back to her alma mater to receive ...

Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC) onboard Naval Support Activity Bethesda (NSAB) celebrated the 106th birthday of the Navy Nurse Corps on May 13 with a cake-cutting ceremony in the ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Few people grasp the cost of war. But, military nurses do. “It was a rude awakening to see what they suffered as far as what their injuries were — too many amputees, burns. Napalm ...

When Alene B. Duerk enlisted in the Navy Nurse Corps, leaving her nursing job at a Toledo, Ohio, department store at the height of World War II, she envisioned a few months' service to her country ...

For 36 years, retired U.S. Navy nurse Ruby Brooks patched up the wounded – first as staff nurse, then a surgical nurse. World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War kept her very busy and very ...

A Navy doctor holds a feeding tube used to deliver a can of Ensure up the nose, down the back of the throat and into the stomach of a prison camp hunger striker on June 26, 2013 at the U.S. Navy base ...

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (Tribune News Service) — In March of 1945, there was a parade honoring the homecoming of Lt. Margaret “Peggy” Nash, a U.S. Navy nurse who had served in the Philippines, where she was ...

Five Navy Nurse Corps officers assigned to Navy Medicine Training Support Center (NMTSC) and Navy Medicine Education, Training and Logistics Command (NMETLC) recently visited the San Antonio Brookdale ...

The Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society received its largest-ever donation in May. The gift didn't come from a wealthy benefactor or from the proceeds of the previous year's Army-Navy Game. It was ...