Walter Reed Army Medical Center News

While watching fireworks or sharing pie with family this Fourth of July, don't forget to honor the brave men and women who have protected our country.

U.S. combat troops officially withdrew from all Iraqi cities this week, and the Iraqi government declared a national holiday to commemorate the event.

Marcie Bacchus found herself at ground zero of the Metro train collision. She was in the first car of the train that slammed into the back of the other one.

A colonel who underwent surgery at Walter Reed Army Medical Center to remove a cancerous breast says her physician operated on the wrong side of her body, mistakenly removing several healthy lymph nodes and disfiguring her.

The Rev. Dan Farley has faced danger before; in fact, he's survived it many times.

Several Walter Reed Army Medical Center staffers survived the deadliest accident in Washington Metrorail's 33-year history Monday.

Submitted by SHNS on Tue, 06/23/2009 - 15:22. "CLARA ET MOI." Many good foreign movies are never released in the United States, neither into theaters nor on home video.

In recent years, the military has invested millions of dollars in mental health care, fueling a proliferation of treatment programs while attempting to reshape fundamental attitudes about mental illness.

The Army Officers' Wives Club of the Greater Washington Area presented 45 scholarships on June 9 at Quarters 1 on Fort Myer, the home of Army Chief of Staff Gen.

Medtronic disclosed on Tuesday that it's been subpoenaed by federal prosecutors for documents related to Dr.

ST. PAUL, Minn. - The Rev. Tim Vakoc, a Minnesota priest who was gravely wounded by a roadside bomb in Iraq five years ago, has died, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St.

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates today commended the work of the volunteers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center here, saying they set the example for the rest of the country.

Five years after he was gravely wounded by a roadside bomb in Iraq, the Rev. Tim Vakoc died Saturday night in a New Hope nursing home, according to his family.

A veteran who lost three limbs in Iraq will not get the keys to a new home, after a nonprofit group said the family concealed that they already own two homes.

In a crowded operating room deep inside St. Agnes Hospital on June 3, Dr. JesA1s Esquivel carefully sliced cancer tissue from a patient's appendix and out of his abdomen.

Led by Michelle Obama, top members of the Obama administration will fan out across the country next week to participate in community service projects as part of a high-profile effort to spark volunteer work through the summer.

When a group of children at Fort Detrick's Forest Glen Annex Child Development Center met Army Chief of Staff Gen.

The Veterans Affairs Department appears poised to hit a milestone it would rather avoid: 1 million claims to process.

Photo credit Adam Skoczylas, Pentagram Staff Photographer As part of the Army birthday, Army Secretary Pete Geren introduces Cordymay, a certified pet therapy dog from Walter Reed Army Medical Center, to children at Fort Myer's Cody Child Development Center.

Less than a month after Spc. David Hutchinson arrived in Afghanistan for his first combat tour, he got into his first firefight.