Exposure to the herbicide Agent Orange has been tied to a significantly increased risk for dementia in Vietnam War veterans, new research shows. Investigators at the University of California, San ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MOUNTAIN HOME, Tenn. (WJHL)- More than 58,000 American soldiers died in the Vietnam War, but the number of those dying from its ...
A memorial at Sunset Veterans Memorial Park to victims of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War is partially complete and ...
FILE- Flying a bare 100 feet above the jungle hills west of Hue, 5 bulky 'C-123 providers' cut loose a spray of chemical defoliant on August 14, 1968. The chemicals used burn off heavy foliage hiding ...
The Vietnam War, which came to an end 50 years ago this week, has been followed by a similarly lopsided war of historical memory. This memory war mirrors the lopsided nature of the military struggle ...
This week marks the 50 th anniversary of the end of the U.S. War on Vietnam, and the United States government continues to bear responsibility for cleaning up the ravages of war imposed on the ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Vietnam War-era veterans exposed to Agent Orange appear to have significantly more Graves' disease, a thyroid disorder, than veterans with no exposure, a new study by endocrinologists ...
In this episode of the “CURE® Talks Cancer” podcast, a cancer survivor who served in the Vietnam War shares the story of his Agent Orange exposure and bladder cancer. James R. Scott served in the army ...
Findings from a recent study demonstrated that exposure to Agent Orange increased the risk for bladder cancer but did not affect the disease’s aggressiveness. Vietnam veterans who were exposed to ...
DA NANG, Vietnam (AP) — The Vietnam War ended on April 30, 1975, when the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to Communist forces. But millions of people still face daily battles with its chemical ...