US scientist challenges UK on Gulf war illness

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James Meikle, health correspondent
Wednesday August 4, 2004
The Guardian

A US scientist who led investigations suggesting that nerve agents injured troops in the first Gulf war yesterday called on British researchers to join the hunt for reliable brain scans and other tests.

Robert Haley told Lord Lloyd's independent inquiry into war-related injuries that the US government had radically changed its attitude towards his work after other scientists replicated studies indicating brain damage in veterans.

There was a Gulf war syndrome, or at least a group of illnesses attributable to service in the gulf in 1991, he said. His group was now seeing whether experimental results on small groups of veterans could be extended by comparing brain images of veterans with those of others who were not deployed. Britain should join in.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1275473,00.html

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