VA's Plans to Better Address Veterans' Medical Needs

VA Report Calls for More Study of Gulf War Illness 04/03/2010.  A new report by a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) task force lays out the department's plans to better address veterans' medical needs and "reenergize" the VA's research into the causes of nervous system illnesses affecting many veterans of the 1990-1991 Gulf War conflict.  Of the 700,000 veterans who served in the Gulf War, more than 300,000 have filed disability claims, according to the VA. Of those, more than 85% have illnesses or conditions that were determined to be related to service in either Operation Desert Shield in 1990 or Operation Desert Storm in 1991. Medpage Today