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Military spouses can take these steps if a service member has mental health concerns
The entire military community is needed to overcome the suicide epidemic affecting service members, says this Air Force spouse.
By Aleha Landry
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One Air Force spouse’s take on suicide, depression and mental health concerns in the military
An Air Force wife says she thinks spouses a key in the fight against the suicide epidemic affecting members of the military.
By Aleha Landry
The mental health community: A terrible mindset
To fix the veterans suicide crisis, tackle the problem from a special operations mindset, says the author of this commentary.
By Ken Falke
Explainer: When will there be a coronavirus vaccine?
Five questions answered by two top experts.
By Dr. Aubree Gordon, University of Michigan and Dr. Florian Krammer, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
The Latest: Fuss over Thai navy officers’ return from China
An update on the outbreak of a new virus from China.
No, Lyme disease is not an escaped bioweapon
An op-ed from one of the world's top experts on tick-borne diseases demolishes a conspiracy theory.
By Sam Telford, Tufts University
The Navy’s Ex Ex and a legacy of military naturalists
On Aug. 18, 1838, the Exploring Expedition led by Navy Lt. Charles Wilkes embarked on a world cruise of scientific discovery. He fit well into a class of armed scientists, military naturalists who rose to prominence in the 18th and 19th centuries.
By Richard Conniff, HistoryNet
VP Pence lauds Coast Guard crew for massive cocaine haul
The Coast Guard cutter Murno returned this week from a three-month drug interdiction deployment in the Eastern Pacific.
Admiral: LCS will hunt drug smugglers
The LCS will pick up a mission held by Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigates until 2015.
How historical disease detectives are solving the mysteries of the World War I flu epidemic
The centennial of the 1918 pandemic is a good time to take stock of how far the world has come since this historic health disaster – and to face the sobering fact that several key mysteries have yet to be resolved.
By Gerardo Chowell, Georgia State University; Cecile Viboud, National Institutes of Health, and Lone Simonsen, Roskilde University
Battlefield acupuncture? Yes, it exists, and the military is using it to fight troops’ pain
Like the rest of the nation, the U.S. military is struggling to fight the opioid epidemic. And it’s embracing an ancient holistic therapy to do it.
By Nicole Bauke