Researchers probe geographical ties to ALS cases among 1991 Gulf War veterans
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 08:56
in Health & Medicine
Researchers from Duke University, the University of Cincinnati (UC) and the Durham Veterans Administration Medical Centre 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...
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