Concerns about the long-term health effects of Agent Orange are driving a local effort to help Vietnam-era veterans and their ...

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 ...

Agent Orange Awareness Day, Aug. 10, isn’t just about Vietnam veterans. It is a time to remind people about exposure to toxic ...

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 ...

VOVWORLD] - Nearly 900 homes for Agent Orange/dioxin victims have been completed under a nationwide program to replace ...

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 ...

This lonely section of the abandoned Danang air base was once crawling with U.S. airmen and machines. It was here where giant orange drums were stored and the herbicides they contained were mixed and ...

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 ...

VOVWORLD] - Sixty-five years ago, on August 10, 1961, the first US military flights sprayed herbicides over southern Vietnam, ...

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 ...

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 ...