Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin speaks throughout a Pentagon press briefing on the Pentagon on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024 in Washington.

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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin speaks throughout a Pentagon press briefing on the Pentagon on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024 in Washington.

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WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was launched from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Tuesday, ending his second keep since surgical procedure to deal with prostate most cancers, and he has resumed his full duties, the Pentagon mentioned.

Austin, 70, has had ongoing well being points since present process surgical procedure in December. He was taken again to Walter Reed on Sunday for a bladder challenge and admitted to intensive look after a second time. He underwent a non-surgical process beneath basic anesthesia on Monday.

Austin’s docs mentioned Tuesday that his bladder challenge was associated to the surgical procedure.

“The bladder issue was not related to his cancer diagnosis and will have no effect on his excellent cancer prognosis,” Dr. John Maddox, trauma medical director, and Dr. Gregory Chesnut, director of the Center for Prostate Disease Research on the Murtha Cancer Center, mentioned in a press release.

On their recommendation, Austin will make money working from home earlier than returning to the Pentagon later this week. His residence has “full access to the unclassified and classified communications systems necessary to perform his duties,” the Pentagon mentioned in a press release.

Austin is predicted to host a digital assembly Wednesday of about 50 international locations who meet month-to-month to coordinate army help for Ukraine.

He had been scheduled to journey to Brussels on Tuesday for that Ukraine assembly, adopted by a quarterly assembly with NATO protection ministers on Thursday. The U.S. ambassador to NATO, Julie Smith, will symbolize Austin in Brussels as an alternative.

In January, Austin was hospitalized for 2 weeks at Walter Reed after he skilled issues from the surgical procedure.

His Walter Reed docs had mentioned they didn’t anticipate he could be within the hospital this time for a chronic interval.