Gulf War Syndrome

Gulf War Whistleblower Says He knew His Life Would Never Be The Same

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to ex-CIA analyst and whistleblower Patrick Eddington about his decision to reveal sensitive information about U.S. soldiers' exposure to toxins during the first Gulf War.

Research on Health Effects of Gulf War Service

VA and other organizations conduct research evaluating the health effects of Gulf War service during Operations Desert Shield, Desert Storm, Iraqi Freedom and New Dawn.

Researchers Find Biological Evidence of Gulf War Illnesses

New findings are bolstering the view that mysterious symptoms in Persian Gulf.

The Lies Still Killing Gulf War Vets

During and immediately after the first gulf War, more than 200,000 of 700,000 U.S. troops sent to Iraq and Kuwait in January 1991 were exposed to nerve gas and other chemical agents. Though aware of this, the Department of Defense and CIA launched a campaign of lies and concocted a cover-up that continues today.

Why hasn't the mystery of Gulf War Syndrome been solved?

The Royal British Legion is urging the UK government to fund more research into Gulf War Syndrome, a condition reported to have affected thousands of British and US veterans. But why has no one ever properly explained it?

A New Step In Solving The Mystery Of Gulf War Illness

One of the greatest tolls on a veteran with Gulf War Illness is the crippling but mysterious fatigue that can strike unpredictably and is exacerbated after physical exercise.

Another Gulf War Syndrome?

Burning trash on bases is sickening soldiers, but the Army refuses to extinguish the burn pits.

Chemicals Sickened '91 Gulf War Veterans, Latest Study Finds

A federal panel of medical experts studying illnesses among veterans of the 1991 war in the Persian Gulf has broken with several earlier studies and concluded that many suffer from neurological damage caused by exposure to toxic chemicals, rejecting past findings that the ailments resulted mostly from wartime stress.

Explaining the ‘Unexplained’ Illnesses of Gulf War Veterans

A recent Institute of Medicine report on Gulf War illness has unfortunately concluded that veterans have such diverse symptoms and exposures that a single, distinct definition cannot be used to describe their condition. This conclusion fails to account for strong evidence for a new two-step disease mechanism that links environmental exposures with a host of debilitating symptoms similar to those afflicting one-in-four veterans, 23 years after the war.

For Soldiers With Gulf War Illness, a Clue to the Mystery in Their Cells

Doctors found changes in mitochondria of veterans of the first Gulf War suffering from a variety of mysterious aliments.

Gulf War Syndrome Is Appearing in Veterans of the Most Recent Iraq and Afghanistan Wars

According to a new report from the federal Institute of Medicine, some of the 2.9 million veterans of the most recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have started to display CMI symptoms.

Gulf War Syndrome Linked to Chemical Weapons, Says New Study

Controversial new research suggests that the bombing of Iraqi chemical weapons depots caused soldiers to be exposed to nerve agents like sarin gas.

Gulf War Syndrome, Other Illnesses Among Veterans May Be Due To Toxic Environments

Dr. Cecile Rose, director of the occupational and environmental medicine clinic at National Jewish Health, said that while investigation of these exposures are in their infancy, she is seeing a number of returning troops who suffer from respiratory diseases — virtually all of whom say they experienced substantial exposure to dust storms and burn pits while overseas. “The more we do this,” she said, “the more compelling it is that there is a problem.”

Gulf War Syndrome: Killing Our Own (Part 1)

Exposure to chemicals, radiation, and other toxic substances have left Gulf War soldiers and their kin with debilitating diseases.

Military health: The insurmountable gulf

Graves and others contend that the agency has refused to recognize Gulf War illness as a unique physiological condition, maintaining instead that it is psychosomatic or the result of stress. The VA, they claim, has obstructed research into Gulf War illness, stacked scientific review panels with members who would favour a psychological explanation and defanged the research advisory committee (RAC) that Graves served on.

Preventing the 'Gulf War Syndrome' Syndrome

Thousand of veterans who fought in the Gulf War have developed symptoms ranging from fatigue and joint pain to memory disturbances. Trying to pin down what may have caused these problems has proved difficult. Environmental and medical data was either not collected at the time or subsequently lost.

Recent research on Gulf War illness and other health problems in veterans of the 1991 Gulf War: Effects of toxicant exposures during deployment

Veterans of Operation Desert Storm/Desert Shield – the 1991 Gulf War (GW) – are a unique population who returned from theater with multiple health complaints and disorders.

The Gulf War Syndrome: The US Government’s Conspiracy of Silence and Obstruction Against Gulf War Veterans

With only 148 Americans officially killed in action and only 467 wounded, the Gulf War seemed to be a shining victory for our military and its leaders. However, this victory has cast a long, lingering shadow. Today we know that nearly 200,000 of our Gulf service men and women are suffering from a debilitating and sometimes deadly syndrome. The suffering our military personnel have endured from Gulf War syndrome is outrageous in and of itself; however, the US government’s decades-long denial that the illness even exists has compounded the problem tremendously.

Gulf Illness Veterans (G.I.V) at War Still

Our goal here at GIV is to raise awareness and take action. We urge you to contact the administration, your senators and congressman and the VA secretary to urge them to change the way Gulf War vets with gulf war illness are cared for at VA facilities and to give us the benefits we deserve.

Gulf War Illness

For veterans suffering from Gulf War Illness and those who care for them.

GulfLINK

GulfLINK was established in August 1995 to provide on-line access to medical, operational, and intelligence documents from the 1990-1991 Gulf War. Its purpose was and is to provide Service members, veterans, and any interested person with information on what happened during that war that might have affected the health of those who served.

91outcomes.com

Gulf War Health & News.

American Gulf War Veterans Association

The American Gulf War Veterans Association (AGWVA) was established with one goal in mind: To obtain treatment for those service members and their families who experience symptoms collectively known as the "Gulf War Illness". However, there is more to this issue than meets the eye.