Evidence suggests that exposure to Agent Orange is linked with a number of serious and potentially fatal diseases. The marriage of two herbicides chemically known as 2, 4, 5-T and 2, 4-D yielded the ...

WASHINGTON -- Exposure to Agent Orange during the Vietnam War doesn't seem to increase the risk of dementia on its own, but it may exacerbate the effects of other risk factors like PTSD, researchers ...

A new national study shows for the first time that people exposed to Agent Orange face a higher risk of developing myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), tend to develop it earlier, and often have more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than four decades have passed since the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War ended and the last American troops left the ...

The U.S. Marine Corps buried a massive stockpile of Agent Orange at the Futenma air station in Okinawa, seriously sickening the base’s former head of maintenance and potentially contaminating nearby ...

Agent Orange, the chemical herbicide used by the U.S. military during the Vietnam War to deforest the land, deprived combatants of food and the ability to conceal themselves. But as we now know, the ...

U.S. researchers say they've determined dioxin, the toxin contained in the Vietnam-era herbicide Agent Orange, limits the growth of the prostate gland. The Air Force Health Study shows the toxin might ...

Named for the orange-striped barrels in which it was shipped, Agent Orange is an herbicide that the U.S. military used during the Vietnam War to destroy enemy food crops and kill jungle vegetation ...

Vietnam marked the 51st anniversary of the U.S. Army's use of the herbicide Vietnam claims the herbicide caused dozens of illnesses in millions of Vietnamese For years, the United States refused to ...

Operation Ranch Hand turned the C-123 Provider from a humble transport into the main aircraft of America’s herbicide campaign ...