DoD Launches Healthy Base Initiative; Raising Awareness of Prediabetes; Gulf War Illness: Closer to a Solution; Is Malaria on the Way Out?

"One of the main causes for release from active duty...is failure to meet height and weight standards," says Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs Dr. Jonathan Woodson. Good health and fitness are important to readiness, but the loss of talent, experience, and training is also very expensive, adding about $1.2 billion per year to the DoD budget in health care costs and lost duty days.