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• Squalene Presence Confirmed by FDA

  - 2000-10-30

  Since July 1997 Insight has been reporting on the presence of antibodies to a substance called squalene that has shown up in the blood of sick U.S. soldiers of the Persian Gulf War era -- both those who served overseas during the conflict and those who were called to service...

  Tags: FDA, Government, HEALTHCARE, Tulane University, U.S. Department of Defense, vaccine

• Congressman Blasts DoD on Gulf-War Illness Study

  - 2000-04-03

  Rep. Jack Metcalf, in a blistering letter to Defense Department Secretary Bill Cohen, has accused the military of manipulating and obfuscating data involving gulf-war illness and the findings of a recent groundbreaking study by the prestigious Tulane University School of Medicine. Researchers at the school last year discovered unusual antibodies...

  Tags: INTERNET, Tulane University, U.S. Department of Defense

• Gulf War Illness Update

  - 2000-02-28

  A peer-reviewed article by Tulane University researchers confirming the presence of squalene in the blood of gulf-war veterans has spurred Congress to demand answers from the Pentagon. At least 10 senior members of Congress recently sent Defense Secretary William Cohen a stern letter about the Pentagon's failure to take...

  Tags: Government, Pentagon, Tulane University, U.S. Congress, U.S. Department of Defense

• Breakthrough on Gulf War Illness

  - 1999-04-19

  After a year of stonewalling by the DOD, a new study at the prestigious Tulane University Medical School confirms that victims of a mysterious sickness may have been poisoned. It started with a telephone call nearly two years ago, a call with a question not yet fully answered: How...

  Tags: General Accounting Office, Gulf, HEALTHCARE, Reed, soldier, theory, Tulane University, U.S. Department of Defense, Walter