MVP

MVP now serves all Veterans who have worn the uniform, regardless of combat experience, alongside the continued support for former professional athletes.

MVP looks at the background and impact of Women’s History Month.

Diverse representation of women in health care research allows MVP to make discoveries for women’s health

The Million Veteran Program is a national research project learning how genes and military experiences and exposures affect health and illness.

Learn to recognize the signs of social media scams to protect yourself and your family members from becoming victims of fraud.

Rosalie Liotta and Cathy Adkins enrolled in VA’s MVP, which learns how genes, lifestyle, and military exposures affect the health of former service members.

Combat Veterans and former professional athletes are coming together virtually for exercise and peer support through Merging Vets and Players.

A large study that included data on more than 150,000 Veterans finds that risk of coronary artery disease—a form of heart disease—rises based on the rate of fried food consumption.

VA is in the forefront of genomic research, aimed at improving Veterans’ health care, and this area is expanding. Do Veterans want to see their genetic results? This study wants to find out.

Research using MVP data is already underway with several studies, including efforts focused on understanding the genetics of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), diabetes, heart disease, suicide prevention and other topics.

The Million Veteran Program is research that hopes to understand how genes affect health. The largest database of its kind in the world, it will answer important questions affecting Veterans’ health.

Edwin Callahan volunteered to participate in the VA Million Veteran Program because genetics is a next frontier in medicine that will serve those who have served us, our Veterans.