In the legal case In re Agent Orange Product Liability Litigation of the early 1980s, US military veterans of the Vietnam War sued the US chemical companies that had produced the herbicide Agent Orange, and those companies settled with US veterans out of court. Agent Orange contains dioxin, a chemical later shown to disrupt the hormone [5] system of the body and to cause cancer. As veterans ret...

Risk factors affecting the course of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are poorly understood. As part of a larger study on characterizing exposure to herbicides in Vietnam, the authors investigated this issue in a random sample of 1,377 American Legionnaires who had served in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War and were followed over a 14-year period. High combat exposure, perceived negati...

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In the past year, several papers on health outcomes in Korean veterans of the Vietnam War have been published. All of these papers base their exposure classifications on an ‘E4 score’ which is a proximity-based measure of ‘exposure opportunity’ calculated from a model developed at Columbia University. Calculation of an Exposure Opportunity Index (EOI) or E4 score from this model requires two in...

We report a 51-year-old Vietnam War veteran with an unusual variant of macular amyloidosis presenting as poikilodermatous skin lesions. The extensive mottled brown pigmentation was checkered with small hypopigmented or normal skin-colored spots and intermingled with telangiectasia. Skin biopsy revealed subepidermal amyloid deposits. There was no evidence of extracutaneous involvements. This cas...

However, in the final chapter, 'The price of success', Fye provides a valuable analysis to show how this success has also brought greed, prohibitive costs, the rise of managed care, fragmentation, new tensions, excessive numbers of cardiologists, high expectations, and a rise in consumer protection. Ironically, this is at the very moment when the quality of cardiac care in America has become th...

In the legal case In re Agent Orange Product Liability Litigation of the early 1980s, US military veterans of the Vietnam War sued the US chemical companies that had produced the herbicide Agent Orange, and those companies settled with US veterans out of court. Agent Orange contains dioxin, a chemical later shown to disrupt the hormone [5] system of the body and to cause cancer. As veterans ret...

Many U.S. military veterans lack health insurance and are ineligible for care in Veterans Administration health care facilities. Using two recently released national government surveys--the 2004 Current Population Survey and the 2002 National Health Interview Survey--the authors examined how many veterans are uninsured (lacking health insurance coverage and not receiving care from the VA) and w...