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Researchers Testing Light Therapy for Gulf War Illness

Researchers at the VA Boston Healthcare System are currently testing the effects of light therapy on brain function in veterans with Gulf War Illness. The current study is following up on promising results from a pilot study in which veteran participants reported fewer symptoms...

Pentagon looking for soldiers exposed to chemicals in Iraq

February 10, 2015

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The Department of Defense is contacting service members and veterans who may have been exposed to chemicals — warfare agents such as mustard agents or sarin — during Operation Iraqi Freedom. This effort is in response to the recent reports in The New York Times, most...

The suits say KBR’s actions resulted in illnesses and death. That seems like an obvious assumption: In the United States, we are not allowed to burn trash in large open pits because it’s a health hazard. Troops can tell you. It settled like smog over their housing areas, leaving...

Military health: The insurmountable gulf

“From the beginning, the VA has refused to honestly face the problems that face veterans,” said Joel Graves, a Gulf War veteran who until last year had served on a committee advising the VA on research priorities related to the illness. Graves and others contend that the agency...

Kan. veteran worries exposure to hazardous fumes cause of health problems

Garrison, a 28-year-old from Leavenworth, experienced debilitating muscle pain for several days and was hospitalized at a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs facility. He left with a cane that he was still using last month. After multiple wartime deployments to Afghanistan as an...

BR soldier’s death after return from Iraq sparked legislation

December 13, 2014

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Austin Daniel died of heart failure on Sept. 7, 2009, leaving behind a 26-year-old widow and 22-month-old Anna Lee, his mother wrote in a military blog discussing burn pit issues. On May 28, Gov. Bobby Jindal signed SB538, authored by Sen. John Smith, known as the Staff Sgt....

Toxic Trash Contamination on US Military Bases

In August 2010, New York Times correspondent James Risen discussed problems from burn pit toxic waste exposure. Former staff sgt. Susan Clifford one of many victims. Involved in dumping Balad Air Base trash “into a massive, open-air pit.” “Every conceivable type…” Includi...

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Researchers Testing Light Therapy for Gulf War Illness

Pentagon looking for soldiers exposed to chemicals in Iraq

Vets Can Finally Sue Contractors for Cancer Caused by War

Military health: The insurmountable gulf

Kan. veteran worries exposure to hazardous fumes cause of health problems

BR soldier’s death after return from Iraq sparked legislation

Toxic Trash Contamination on US Military Bases

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