Friday Health.mil News Round-Up: DoD Helps Protect Beneficiaries from Deceptive Pharmacy Practices; Nurse Advice Line Provides Medical Expertise, Peace of Mind; Defense Health Agency legal team holds mock trial for local students

The following articles were recently posted on Health.mil:

DoD Helps Protect Beneficiaries from Deceptive Pharmacy Practices
May 14, 2015

In the face of recent aggressive and deceptive marketing practices of some compounding pharmacies targeting TRICARE, the Defense Health Agency is taking aggressive action to help TRICARE beneficiaries, DHA’s chief of pharmacy operations said in a recent interview.

Full story: www.health.mil/News/Articles/2015/05/14/DoD-Helps-Protect-Beneficiaries-from-Deceptive-Pharmacy-Practices

Nurse Advice Line Provides Medical Expertise, Peace of Mind
May 14, 2015

For Air Force Capt. Stephanie Raps, Easter weekend went from fun excursion to ordeal in a matter of hours. That’s how long it took for her two small children to become ill as her own sinus infection worsened.

“We were nine hours from home, traveling in rural Ohio, and I knew we were at least two hours away from the nearest military treatment facility at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base,” she said.

Full story: www.health.mil/News/Articles/2015/05/14/Nurse-Advice-Line-Provides-Medical-Expertise-Peace-of-Mind

Defense Health Agency legal team holds mock trial for local students
May 14, 2015

Members of the Defense Health Agency (DHA) legal team held a mock trial at the Fort Belvoir Elementary School May 1, 2015, in honor of Law Day. Another team from the DHA’s office in Colorado talked to students at the Stargate School in Thornton, Colorado, about the U.S. Constitution and presented each of the students with a pocket-sized copy of the Constitution May 11, 2015.

Full story: www.health.mil/News/Articles/2015/05/14/Defense-Health-Agency-legal-team-holds-mock-trial-for-local-students