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OSU Researcher part of first-ever NAS Gulf War health effects study

Firdaus Dhabhar, an assistant professor of oral biology at Ohio State, was one of 18 researchers selected by the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine to look for links between exposures to four agents during the 1990 Persian Gulf War and subsequent symptoms and illnesses reported by members of the military since then. The findings from the report were released Thursday, (9/7) in Washington. "Basically, we did not have sufficient evidence to conclude that exposure to any of these specific agents was the cause of the reported symptoms," Dhabhar said. "But we were able to propose a set of recommendations which may eventually lead to answering that question."

 

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