V.A. to Study Toxins' Effects From 1991 Gulf War
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The government will spend $15 million over the next year for research on the illnesses of veterans of the 1991 Persian Gulf war.
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_ 1991: The International Atomic Energy Agency places a seal over storage bunkers holding conventional explosives known as HMX and RDX and PETN at the Al-Qaqaa facility south of Baghdad as part of U.N. sanctions that ordered the dismantlement of Iraq's nuclear program after the Gulf War. HMX is a "dual use" substance powerful enough to ignite the fissile material in an atomic bomb and set off a nuclear chain reaction.
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By Mladen Rudman, Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach  Dec. 12--EGLN AFB -- The federal government could soon find out if testing sophisticated weapons in the Gulf of Mexico can coexist with protecting marine mammals.
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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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A federal panel said Friday that exposure to toxic substances, not combat stress, most likely caused the mysterious medical problems suffered by many veterans of the 1991 Gulf War.
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PARIS More than 100,000 civilians have probably died in Iraq as direct or indirect consequences of the March 2003 US-led invasion, according to a study by a research team at Johns Hopkins University&#39;s Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore.
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A 1959 nuclear reactor meltdown at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in eastern Ventura County may have caused hundreds of cancers in the surrounding community while chemicals from the site threaten to contaminate local ground and water, according to a report released Thursday.
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By Jake Armstrong, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Jun. 7--TRACY -- The U.S. Department of Energy is accepting public opinion on a proposal to continue cleansing toxic and cancer-causing chemicals from a high-explosives test range southwest of Tracy.
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NEW YORK  - Problems with one of the body's  nervous systems may account for many of the symptoms seen with  Gulf War syndrome, new research suggests.
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Tests were being conducted Monday to find out if anyone else has been contaminated with the radioactive substance that killed ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko.
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Thousands of Marine families who lived at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina over three decades drank and bathed in water contaminated with toxins as much as 40 times over today's safety standard.
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NEW YORK  - Chronic fatigue among Gulf War  veterans seems to be associated with a particular variant of  the DCP1 gene, according to new research.
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By Omar Sinan and Kathy Gannon THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  HALABJA, Iraq -- These are bitter times in the town that Saddam Hussein gassed.  It's painful enough that many people still suffer the aftereffects of nerve and mustard gas nearly 20 years ago.
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The Veterans Affairs Department said Friday that it no longer will pay for studies that seek to show stress is the primary cause of mysterious ailments afflicting thousands of veterans of the 1991 Gulf War.
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By BEN STOCKING  DANANG, Vietnam - More than 30 years after the Vietnam War ended, the poisonous legacy of Agent Orange has emerged anew with a scientific study that has found extraordinarily high levels of health-threatening contamination at the former U.S. air base at Danang.
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Tests that determine whether toxic chemicals accumulate in food may be missing some hazardous materials and need to be updated, a Canadian researcher said Thursday.
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By KEITH LESLIE  TORONTO (CP) - Armed with tests that suggest the body of every Canadian carries trace evidence of dangerous chemicals, Ontario's New Democrats are spearheading an effort that would help them learn exactly what carcinogens or toxins they are exposed to on a daily basis.