There’s another skin condition called porphyria ... whom Jeffries and his team screen have multiple conditions presumed to be from Agent Orange. “We can talk to their primary care [doctor].

Related: Get VA Disability Pay for Agent Orange-Related Conditions The chemical contaminant ... patchy series of lesions on the skin. Longer-term exposure causes alterations in liver function ...

Francesca Cesare sat behind a stack of her husband's medical records at her spotless town house and told how wounds from the Vietnam War ate away at the man she loved for nearly 50 years.

PROVIDENCE — Exposure to Agent Orange is known to have caused birth ... including increased rates of diabetes, skin disease, lots of cancers (which are still being identified), and then ...

Agent Orange still causes sickness more than 50 years later. The human cost of this liquid herbicide (called Agent Orange because of the orange stripes on the drums that carried it) is difficult ...

But for decades, the Department of Veterans Affairs has denied most disability claims by Vietnam veterans for three other conditions associated with exposure to Agent Orange: nerve damage ...

Medical experts associate Agent Orange exposure with several diseases and cancers. However, there is a lack of sufficient research showing a causal link between Agent Orange and kidney cancer.

A new study by scientists at Brown University reveals the mechanisms by which Agent Orange affects the brain and how those processes can lead to neurodegenerative diseases. The research shows that ...

They don't need to show that they were exposed to Agent Orange or other herbicides in order to get disability compensation for diseases related to Agent Orange exposure. Agent Orange and other ...

But the ground in many areas of Vietnam remains contaminated by Agent Orange. A number of people in these areas believe they are victims of the chemical. One woman said the herbicide had caused a skin ...