Debating the Evidence on Gulf War Illnesses
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Some outside scientists wondered whether a Department of Veterans Affairs panel was stretching thin data to tell veterans what they wanted to hear in the committee's recent report.
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War in Iraq has caused a public health  disaster that has left the country's medical system in tatters  and increased the risk of disease and death, according to a  report released on Tuesday.
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THERE is such a thing as &quot;Gulf War syndrome&quot; and the Ministry of Defence should face up to the fact, an independent inquiry concluded yesterday.
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The government must acknowledge that thousands of soldiers who served in the 1991 Gulf War are suffering serious illnesses as a direct result, a heavyweight inquiry has concluded.
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I recommend a couple of articles chronicling the unintended consequences of the war on drugs. One, by Ethan Nadelmann, is a global look at the damage done by prohibitionist policies. The other, by Radley Balko, is a look at a doctor convicted for prescribing opioids â and this case is in some ways more troubling [...].
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WASHINGTON -- Veterans of the 1991 Persian Gulf War exposed to pollution from oil well fires, exhausts, and other sources may face an increased risk of lung cancer, a government advisory group reported yesterday.
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War in Iraq has caused a public health disaster that has left the country's medical system in tatters and increased the risk of disease and death, according to a report released Tuesday.
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A public-health doctor discovers that poor diet, not airborne microbes, is the cause of pellagra, a debilitating and often fatal disease. He's bucking the medical establishment, though, and his findings are not universally accepted.
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Missing medical evidence taken from the body of an Iraqi man beaten by Marine prison guards resurfaced this week, a defense attorney for an officer charged in connection with the man's death said Thursday. For months, the military had insisted the evidence was lost.
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WASHINGTON - Veterans of the 1991 Persian Gulf War exposed to pollution from oil well fires, exhausts and other sources face an increased risk of lung cancer, a government advisory group reported Monday.
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An expert panel reviewing hundreds of studies has concluded there is no single "Gulf War syndrome" afflicting thousands of veterans of the 1990-91 conflict,  although they have suffered vague symptoms at a much higher rate than other veterans.
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The toll on U.S. troops of war in Iraq  and Afghanistan may be obscured by dramatic advances in  battlefield medicine that allow more soldiers to survive combat  injuries than ever before, according to a report in The New  England Journal of Medicine.
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The illnesses known as Gulf War Syndrome appear to be linked to toxins, not stress, a US report says.
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Today, the Lancet medical journal published a report which concludes that 100,000 civilians died in the US-led invasion of Iraq. This is an incredibly high estimate, and at first may seem too farfetched not to be propaganda. But it cannot easily be dismissed. The report's authors are researchers from Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University, and Al-Mustansiriya University in Baghdad. The Lancet is a highly-respected, peer-reviewed publication. The report appears to be a serious academic attempt to study the public health consequences of the invasion.  Also, The New Republic magazine has conducted an interview with Prof. Gilbert Burnham, the report's main author.   Excerpts and comments below.
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The research, published in this week&#39;s Lancet medical journal, should bolster the arguments against those in the food industry who claim that the obesity is caused not by what you eat but how little exercise you take.
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Gulf war syndrome may have been caused by exposure to the nerve gas sarin, according to reports.
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By Dr Koshy Philip  IF statistics are anything to go by, alarmingly more lives have been lost to cancer than to war. And this status quo may continue.