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Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Scientists have found a link between lethal forms of prostate cancer and the chemical warfare toxin known as Agent Orange used in the Vietnam War. Researchers writing in the journal Cancer say they found links between Agent Orange exposure and deadly forms of prostate cancer. The herbicide was used as part of the military offensive during the Vietnam war in an attempt to destroy crops as well as the forest canopies that Viet Cong...

Wright & Schulte has recently filed a multiple Imprelis tree damage lawsuit on behalf of nearly 30 individual property owners nationwide. This Imprelis lawsuit alleges that use of Imprelis killed or permanently damaged the plaintiffs’ trees and other plant life and that full extent of Imprelis tree damage has yet to be discovered. Columbus, OH (PRWEB) April 28, 2013 The product liability lawyers at Wright & Schulte, LLC have filed a multiple plantiff Imprelis lawsuit on behalf...

Wright & Schulte is representing various plaintiffs throughout the U.S. in four recently filed Imprelis tree damage lawsuits. These cases, three of which are class action lawsuits, allege that use of Imprelis resulted in permanent tree damage and death. Columbus, OH (PRWEB) April 20, 2013 The attorneys at Wright & Schulte, LLC have filed multiple Imprelis lawsuits on behalf of various plaintiffs throughout the U.S. The plaintiffs in these cases, which were filed in late March...

Executive director praises VA leader's vision, endorses plans for new processing system WASHINGTON, March 22, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In the wake of calls from a few vocal critics in the media and veterans' community for Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric K. Shinseki to resign, AMVETS National Executive Director Stewart Hickey today announced his organization's support for the VA leader's continuation in his post. Hickey argued only Shinseki, a man with a...

Birth Defect Research for Children Asking Public to Sign Petition for Research Center ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Birth Defect Research for Children (BDRC) has been tracking the increased incidence of birth defects and developmental disabilities among children of U.S. military veterans since 1990, and is asking the public for help in garnering support for a Children's Research Center to study the phenomena. BDRC started a petition to the Veteran's...

Effects could extend to 'great-grandchildren' Since the 1960s, when the defoliant Agent Orange was widely used in Vietnam, military, industry and environmental groups have debated the toxicity of its main ingredient, the chemical dioxin, and how it should be regulated. But even if all the dioxin were eliminated from the planet, Washington State University researchers say its legacy will live on in the way it turns genes on and off in the descendants of people exposed over the past half...

Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online It has been forty years since the US military last dumped toxic Agent Orange over Vietnam’s forests, meant to destroy cover for guerillas and drive villagers into US-dominated cities. Now, decades later, the United States is pitching in for the first time to aid in cleaning up from the ten years of havoc it caused on Vietnam’s ecosystem. A strain of dioxin found in Agent Orange has been linked to birth defects, stillbirths,...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "Vietnam Veterans of America holds true that crews who flew the C-123K aircraft contaminated with Agent Orange should be acknowledged by your department to have been exposed to this herbicide, and that those crew members who are afflicted with any of the maladies the VA considers presumptive to service connection ought to be eligible for health care and, when warranted, disability compensation," wrote John Rowan, National...

WASHINGTON, Nov 4, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On November 5, 2011, at 3:00 p.m., Vietnam Veterans of America will hold an Agent Orange Town Hall meeting to discuss the birth defects, cancers, learning disabilities, and other health issues affecting the children and grandchildren of Vietnam veterans. The meeting, which is open to the public, will be held at the Penn State Beaver Campus, Monaca Auditorium, in Monaca, Pennsylvania. Hosted by Beaver County VVA Chapter 862 and AVVA Chapter...

WASHINGTON, July 20, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "Sooner or later, some senator or congressman was going to target benefits earned by veterans," said John Rowan, National President of Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA). "It seems that Senator Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma) is the one who has taken aim and fired." Senator Coburn, a medical doctor with a well-earned reputation as a fiscal conservative, has offered an amendment to H.R. 2055, the Military Construction and Veterans' Affairs and...