Regarding Jon Mitchell's Aug. 24 article "Okinawa vet blames cancer on defoliant": The Japan Times journalists working on this very controversial story should be considered eligible for a Pulitzer ...

In April 2011, these Community pages published the first accounts of sick U.S. veterans who believe their illnesses were caused by exposure to Agent Orange on Okinawa during the Vietnam War era. Since ...

FILE- Flying a bare 100 feet above the jungle hills west of Hue, 5 bulky 'C-123 providers' cut loose a spray of chemical defoliant on August 14, 1968. The chemicals used burn off heavy foliage hiding ...

Looking back on his days serving in the Vietnam War with the U.S. Air Force, Larry Kerr remembers the regular exposure to Agent Orange. The chemical was stored in large drums where he helped handle ...

MANILA--A Vietnamese doctor who has helped seek justice for victims of the powerful defoliant dioxin “Agent Orange” used by U.S. forces during the Vietnam War is among this year’s winners of the Ramon ...

Among the participants were Nguyen Minh Triet, former Politburo member and former State President, and Truong My Hoa, former Vice President. Major General, Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Hong Son, ...

A girl who has health problems because of exposure to Agent Orange practices sewing at a special school In Da Nang, Vietnam, March 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Aniruddha Ghosal) DA NANG, Vietnam (AP) — The ...

The Vietnam War, which came to an end 50 years ago this week, has been followed by a similarly lopsided war of historical memory. This memory war mirrors the lopsided nature of the military struggle ...

Agent orange vector illustration word cloud isolated on a white background. Agent Orange exposure is linked to a rare bone marrow cancer Vietnam veterans exposed to Agent Orange had a higher risk of ...

They are Kristensen and colleagues’ 1996 paper on cancer morbidity in the children of agricultural workers in Norway, and an unpublished extension of the Meinert et al. (2000) case-control interview ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers found a correlation between Agent Orange exposure and acral melanoma cases in veterans. Women, ...