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Apr 23, 2024

Lessons from 9/11 for Supporting Veterans Exposed to Military Environmental Hazards: Veterans' Issues in Focus

The 2022 PACT Act streamlined benefits and health care eligibility for veterans exposed to military hazards. The World Trade Center Health Program could serve as a template to improve PACT Act implementation and decisionmaking.
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Mar 29, 2016

Deployment, Combat, and Risk of Multiple Physical Symptoms in the US Military: A Prospective Cohort Study

Service members deployed to a combat zone, especially if they have direct combat experience, are more likely to report multiple physical symptoms (MPS), poorly defined health complaints associated with more health care needs and disability.
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Jul 8, 2013

Gulf War Illness: Still Looking for Answers

Bernard Rostker and Ross Anthony, RAND senior economists with expertise on Gulf War Illness (GWI), discuss a study by scientists at Georgetown University Medical Center that suggests the symptoms of GWI are biological in nature, and a GWI study RAND conducted more than a decade ago.
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Nov 25, 2005

Examining Possible Causes of Gulf War Illness: RAND Policy Investigations and Reviews of the Scientific Literature

This research brief outlines assistance that RAND provided to the OSAGWI in investigating the health effects of eight areas of possible causes of illness: infectious diseases, pyridostigmine bromide, immunizations, wartime stress, chemical and biological warfare agents, oil well fires, depleted uranium, and pesticides.
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Jan 1, 2001

Psychological and Psychosocial Consequences of Combat and Deployment with Special Emphasis on the Gulf War

This book argues that, to be most helpful to veterans, we must deal with the issue of complexity and not simply focus on a hypothecated or hoped for singular cause of Gulf War illness.
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Jan 1, 2000

RAND Review: Vol. 23, No. 3, Winter 1999-2000

Argues that developing and industrialized countries can avoid both environmental and economic disaster resulting from global warming by harnessing alternative fuel technologies; also covers relations with China and U.S. military personnel issues.
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Jan 1, 2000

A Review of the Scientific Literature as it Pertains to Gulf War Illnesses: Volume 8: Pesticides

This report summarizes the scientific literature on 12 of the 35 pesticides that are likely to have been used during the Persian Gulf War.
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Jan 1, 2000

A Review of the Scientific Literature as it Pertains to Gulf War Illnesses: Volume 5: Chemical and Biological Warfare Agents

That Iraq had already used chemical warfare agents led coalition forces to take protective action. Yet many Gulf War veterans have reported a host of symptoms that could be construed as coming from exposure to chemical or biological weapons.
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Jan 1, 1999

A Review of the Scientific Literature As It Pertains to Gulf War Illnesses: Volume 2: Pyridostigmine Bromide

This report examines the role that Pyridostigmine bromide (PB) played in the ongoing chronic health problems documented in Persian Gulf War (PGW) veterans.

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