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The bullet that killed Abraham Lincoln has a new home. The National Museum of Health and Medicine opens Monday in Silver Spring, Md., two years after shutting its doors on the grounds of Walter Reed Army Medical Center and 150 years to the day after it was established as the Army Medical Museum by Army Surgeon General William Hammond.

Researchers at Purdue University are working with the U.S. Army and neurosurgeons at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to create a new type of "bioactive" coating for stents used to treat brain aneurysms including those caused by head trauma from bomb blasts.

A soldier from Wheaton died Saturday after he was injured in April by an improvised explosive device attack while fighting in Afghanistan. U.S. Army Spc. Samuel T. Watts, 20, was wounded in the attack April 25 in Zharay, Afghanistan, according to a Department of Defense release. He died from his wounds Saturday at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. Watts was assigned to the 1st ...

Victoria Tifft fromOhio was named the National Small Business Person of the Year by the Small Business Administration Monday at an event headlined by Small Business Administrator Karen Mills. Tifft was a Peace Corps volunteer in Togo more than 20 years ago when she came down with malaria, an event that sparked her interest in infection disease control. After a stint at the Walter Reed Army ...

( Purdue University ) Researchers at Purdue University are working with the US Army and neurosurgeons at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to create a new type of "bioactive" coating for stents used to treat brain aneurisms including those caused by head trauma from bomb blasts.

Most people do not remember their first steps. Lance Cpl. Timothy Donley, 20, took his two weeks ago, after an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan cost him both legs and use of his right arm.

Georgia's Ft. Stewart opened a new apartment complex for wounded soldiers. The buildings are the latest the Army has built since a scandal over treatment of ill and injured soldiers. Poor conditions at the Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, D.C. prompted the Army to create Warrior...

ARLINGTON   New York Giants head coach Tom Coughlin will be among those honored at an Army service Wednesday in northern Virginia.  

At a monthly breakfast meeting, the D.C. Council discussed potential lessors for the St. Elizabeth's campus in Southeast, the partially abandoned currently home of the city's main public psychiatric facility, and the site of the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center, which the military vacated last August.

A military medical museum in Silver Spring is celebrating 150 years of collecting body parts.