Researchers probe geographical ties to ALS cases among 1991 Gulf War veterans
Monday, July 21, 2008 - 14:14
in Health & Medicine
Researchers from Duke University, the University of Cincinnati and the Durham Veterans Administration Medical Center are hoping to find a geographical pattern to help explain why 1991 Gulf War veterans contracted the fatal neurological disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) at twice the normal rate during the decade after the conflict.