Brooke Army Medical Center News

It was for the needs of the Army that Capt. Karen White one year ago decided to leave the U.S. Army Reserve for active duty as a nurse.

Steeped in the customs of a Scotch-Irish family during her youth in Australia, Shirley Adcock has woven things with knitting needles since she was 4 years old.

Brooke Army Medical Center is a staple in the San Antonio community, but if one doesn't work or receive treatment there, one may not be aware of the medical miracles that happen there every day.

With each step he learns to take he is that much closer to achieving independence.

From a high rise medical center in Los Angeles, UCLA physicians will be able to examine the war wounds of veterans in a military hospital in Texas or as far east as Maryland and even across the Atlantic Ocean and into Germany.

Iraq War veteran, "Dancing with the Stars" Season 13 winner, motivational speaker, actor and author J.R. Martinez won over the hearts of the several hundred guests attending the Baton Rouge General's Excellence in General Gala Nov. 6 at the Crowne Plaza.

Pat Prince was practically living in the family waiting room of the Baton Rouge General Regional Burn Center as husband Walter recovered from burns received when a propane tank exploded at his fishing camp in the fall of 2011.

Micah Andersen is living proof that America is still fighting a war in Afghanistan - emphasis on living.

He often feels like someone is sitting on his chest. And when he climbs stairs, he said, it's like breathing through a straw.

Jauregui will join others from Operation Mend and march down Fifth Avenue in New York City for the America's Parade.

Retired Army Sgt. Matthew King has come a long way since May 3, 2005, when doctors at Kandahar Air Field told him "not to freak out" if he woke up from surgery without his left leg.

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UCLA has launched the first university-based military medicine center on the West Coast, thanks to a generous donation from two sons in honor their father, the inventor, entrepreneur and philanthropist Ronald A. Katz.

Army Pfc. Jeremiah Wright of Port Angeles was formally awarded the Purple Heart and a combat action badge straight from the hands of Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter.

Rusk residents Dennis and Pat Schwartz have been bike enthusiasts since the early days of their marriage, and it wasn't unusual to see the couple out on a spin, with a son each riding behind them.