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Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2010
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Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2010 Hardcover - 2012 - 1st Edition

by Institute of Medicine; Board on the Health of Select Population; Committee to Review the Health Effects i


From the publisher

Because of continuing uncertainty about the long-term health effects of the sprayed herbicides on Vietnam veterans, Congress passed the Agent Orange Act of 1991. The legislation directed the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to request the Institite of Medicine to perform a comprehensive evaluation of scientific and medical information regarding the health effects of exposure to Agent Orange and other herbicides used in Vietnam to be followed by biennial updates. The 2010 update recommends further research of links between Vietnam service and specific health outcomes, most importantly COPD, tonsil cancer, melanoma, brain cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and paternally transmitted effects to offspring.

Details

  • Title Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2010
  • Author Institute of Medicine; Board on the Health of Select Population; Committee to Review the Health Effects i
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 836
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher National Academies Press
  • Date 2012-02
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780309214476 / 0309214475
  • Library of Congress subjects Agent Orange - Health aspects, Agent Orange - Toxicology
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012360834
  • Dewey Decimal Code 615.951