The Science of Gulf War Illness: Answers From 28 Years of Multidisciplinary Research

A collection of unexplained and chronic symptoms affecting veterans of the Persian Gulf War, Gulf War Illness has baffled scientists and medical doctors for three decades. Both academic researchers and those within the military and Department of Veterans Affairs have extensively studied a list of possible causes of the syndrome with no conclusive answers. In May of this year Dr. Haley's research team published a decisive study exploiting a gene-environment interaction proving a causal link with low-level nerve gas exposure in the war. Dr. Haley will explain how a long series of studies over 28 years led to the discovery that could inform treatment advances for this chronic illness in our war veterans.