The Defense Health Agency (DHA) Research and Development Directorate released a grant opportunity to support research aimed at improving health care and military readiness within the Military Health System.
The Military Health System Research Program’s (MHSRP) Notice of Funding Opportunity amplifies how DHA is a learning organization committed to fostering high-value research that supports better care, better health, and increased readiness, with lower costs.
First established in 2019, the program provides funding for competitive intramural and extramural research awards. Prior awardees focused include: Dartmouth College, Pennsylvania State University, Brown University, Naval Postgraduate School, Naval Health Research Center, and the U.S. Army Institute for Surgical Research.
Latest Surface Navy Sleep Policy Aims for Better-Rested, More Alert, Healthier Crews
January 29, 2021 3:38 PM
Cmdr. Jeffrey Servello, executive officer aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Paul Ignatius (DDG-117), conducts a berthing inspection on Sept. 5, 2020. US Navy Photo
The Navy’s surface fleet has a new set of orders that updates a sleep policy to give sailors on watch rotations a bit more sleep and create a culture supporting a more ready, rested and focused seagoing force.
The “Comprehensive Crew Endurance Management Policy,” signed off Dec. 11 by Naval Surface Force Pacific and Naval Surface Force Atlantic, is the first update to the joint instruction issued just months after two 2017 fatal at-sea collisions rocked the Navy.
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While the popularity of wearable sleep trackers is at an all time high, research shows that they aren’t 100 percent accurate in terms of sleep stages, total sleep time, total wake time, and sleep efficiency.
However, sleep trackers can be helpful in paying attention to trends and patterns in your sleep data may point to underlying sleep issues, such as sleep apnea.
To get a better night’s sleep, it’s important to go to bed and wake up at a consistent time every day, work out during the day, and avoid caffeine and screen time before bed.
6 FORT DETRICK, MD – The U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity, in partnership with BioFire Defense LLC, announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration marketing approvals for the Next Generation Diagnostics System Increment 1 Infectious Disease Panel, also known as the Global Fever Panel, and the associated External Control Kit.
The FilmArray® Global Fever Panel is a commercially available single-use, fully enclosed test for use with the BioFire® FilmArray 2.0 instrument to aid in the diagnosis of malaria, dengue fever, chikungunya fever and leptospirosis.
Although these diseases are rare in the United States, they are common in other parts of the world where U.S. Service Members are or may be deployed.
Spouses: Help researchers delve into long-term effects of military life January 11 DoD researchers are recruiting spouses for a new round of study on the effects of military life on spouses. Here, an air crew member from the 391st Fighter Squadron returns from a deployment to Southwest Asia in April, 2019, at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho. (Airman 1st Class JaNae Capuno/Air Force) Military spouses: watch your mail. You may be among those invited to participate in the next round of a unique long-term study of the effects of military life on career, stress, well-being, health and adjustment. The invitations to participate in the DoD Millennium Cohort Family Study are coming this month by mail, from Department of Defense addresses. Researchers are hoping to recruit up to 50,000 military spouses in the continuing long-term study. The spouse survey takes about 45 minutes to complete, and participants are asked to take a follow-up survey every three to five years, over seve