Million veterans sequenced

Leading causes of cardiovascular hospitalization in 8.45 million US veterans

BACKGROUND We sought to determine the leading causes of cardiovascular (CV) hospitalization, and to describe and compare national rates of CV hospitalization by age, gender, race, ethnicity, region, and year, among U.S. veterans. METHODS We evaluated the electronic health records of all veterans aged ≥18 years who had accessed any healthcare services at either a VA healthcare facility or a no...

America's neglected veterans: 1.7 million who served have no health coverage.

Many U.S. military veterans lack health insurance and are ineligible for care in Veterans Administration health care facilities. Using two recently released national government surveys--the 2004 Current Population Survey and the 2002 National Health Interview Survey--the authors examined how many veterans are uninsured (lacking health insurance coverage and not receiving care from the VA) and w...

Sixty Million Acres: American Veterans and the Public Lands Before the Civil War

Sixty Million Acres: American Veterans and the Public Lands Before the Civil War

Rice blast fungus sequenced

Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is a major staple food crop for half of the world’s population. The International Rice Research Institute, Philippines, estimates that in order to feed the growing global population, rice production must increase by another one-third by the year 2020. Magnaporthe grisea (anamorph, Pyricularia oryzae) causes rice blast disease (Figure 1) and is the most destructive pathoge...