Congressional Reports and Testimony

• General Accounting Office Reports   GAO
  For all reports, enter 'Gulf War Illnesses' in the first search field.
  Here are some report titles:
  • Research, Clinical Monitoring, and Medical Surveillance
    5 February 1998
  • Federal Research Strategy Needs Reexamination
    24 February 1998
  • Questions About the Presence of Squalene
    Antibodies in Veterans Can Be Resolved
    Report to Representative Jack Metcalf
    29 March 1999
  • Management Actions Needed to Answer
    Basic Research Questions
    6 January 2000
  • Basic Questions Unanswered
    2 February 2000
  • Understanding of Health Effects from DU Evolving
    but Safety Training Needed
    29 March 2000
• House Committee on Government Reform
  • Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program:
    Unproven Force Protection
    House Report 106-556
    Subcommittee Report, 17 Feb 2000 (.PDF)
    Committee Report, 3 April 2000 (.PDF)
  • 106th Congress Hearings Archive
  • Congressman Jack Metcalf's Report
  • Statement of Rep Christopher Shays
    17 February 2000
  • Statement of MAJ Sonnie Bates, USAF
    12 October 1999 (.PDF)
  • Statement of Meryl Nass, MD
    29 April 1999
  • Gulf War Illnesses:  VA, DOD Continue to Resist Strong Evidence
    Linking Toxic Causes to Chronic Health Effects
    House Report 105-388
    7 November 1997
  • Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses:  Health of Coalition Forces
    National Security Subcommittee
    24 January 2002
• House Committee on Veterans' Affairs
  • Operational and Medical Readiness in the Active Duty Force
    Subcommittee on Health
    24 January 2002
  • Persian Gulf War Veterans' Issues
• Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs
  • Report of the Special Investigation Unit, 1998
    • Appendices to the SIU Report
  • Persian Gulf War Veterans Act of 1998
    Committee Report 105-362 (.PDF)

Definitions

• Chronic Multisystem Illness Affecting Air Force Veterans of the Gulf War
  Fukuda, et.al., JAMA, 1998 Sep;280(11)
  • Letters to Editor and Reply
• Gulf War Syndrome Defined:  Evidence, Conclusions, and Coverup
  Lin Arison, May 1999
• PBS Frontline:  Last Battle of the Gulf War
  Gulf War Syndrome  | Aired in 1998

Department of Defense

• Comprehensive Clinical Evaluation Program   CCEP
  Report on 18,598 Persian Gulf War Veterans
  2 April 1996
• DeploymentLINK
  Special Assistant for Deployment Health Support
  Email:  special.assistant@deploymenthealth.osd.mil
  • Depleted Uranium Information   DU
• GulfLINK
  • DU Environmental Exposure Report
  • Medical Recordkeeping During the Gulf War
  • MedSearch
    Federal Gulf War medical research
  • Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force
        on Persian Gulf War Health Effects
    June, 1994
  • Vaccine Use During the Gulf War
• Post-Deployment Health
  Clinical Practice Guidelines
• Unexplained Illnesses Among Gulf War Veterans
  'A Search for Causes, Treatment, and Cooperation'
  23 March 1998

Department of Veterans' Affairs

• Gulf War Illnesses
• Programs for Gulf War Veterans

Federal and International

• CIA Persian Gulf War Task Force
• Health Impact of Chemical Exposures During the Gulf War
  CDC conference, 1999 (.PDF)
• Military and Veterans Health Coordinating Board   MVHCB
  • Health Consequences of the Gulf War
    'An Ongoing Analysis'  December 2000
    No frames site
  • Persian Gulf Veterans Coordinating Board   PGVCB
    • DOD Fact Sheet and VA Fact Sheet
    • Plan for Research on Persian Gulf War Veterans' Illness
      August 1995
    • Research on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses
      Report to Congress, 1998
• Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses
  Terminated November 1997
  • Congressional Testimony
  • Final Report
    December 1996
    • Supplemental Letter Report
  • Letter from Rep Sanders to the Advisory Committee
    June 1997
• Presidential Special Oversight Board for DOD Investigations
      of Gulf War Chemical and Biological Incidents
  Final Report:  20 October 2000
  • ABC News Release

Federally Commissioned Reports

• Institute of Medicine   IOM
  • Health Consequences of Service During the Persian Gulf War
    1996
  • Gulf War and Health
    DU, Pyridostigmine Bromide, Sarin, and Vaccines
    7 September 2000
  • Gulf War Veterans:  Measuring Health
    1999
  • Gulf War Veterans:  Treating Symptoms and Syndromes
    2001
  • Protecting Those Who Serve
    10 October 2000 Press Release
• RAND Gulf War Illness Studies
  Abstracts | RAND Reports Archive at OSAGWI
  • Chemical and Biological Warfare Agents
  • Depleted Uranium   DU
  • Military Use of Drugs Not Yet Approved
        by the FDA for BW/CW Defense
  • Oil Well Fires
  • Pyridostigmine Bromide   PB
    19 October 1999
    • ABC News Release
    • Statement of Rep. Christopher Shays

Independent Research

• Antibodies Link Gulf War Syndrome to Anthrax Vaccine
  Autoimmune Technologies, LLC, New Orleans
  • 15 July 2002 News Release
  • Asa, P. B., Cao, Y., and Garry, R. F.
    Antibodies to Squalene in Gulf War Syndrome.
    Experimental and Molecular Pathology, 2000 Feb;68(1):55-64
    • 1 March 2000 News Release
    • Letter to Editor and Reply
• Evidence Iraq Used Chemical Weapons During the Persian Gulf War
  Monterey Institute of International Studies (.PDF)
• FOIA Gulf War Log
• Gulf War Illness Research:  Garth and Nancy Nicolson
  Institute for Molecular Medicine
  • Congressional Testimony, 2 April 1996
  • Congressional Testimony, 29 January 2002
• Gulf War-Associated Neurologic Illness Research
  Robert Haley, M.D., UT Southwestern
  • Gulf War Illnesses Traced to Chemicals
    8 January 1997
  • PBS Frontline Interview with Dr. Haley
    1998
• New England Journal of Medicine   NEJM
  • Mortality Among US Veterans of the Persian Gulf War
    NEJM Nov 1996;335:1498-1504
  • Postwar Hospitalization Experience of US Veterans
    of the Persian Gulf War
    NEJM Nov 1996;335:1505-1513
  • Risk of Birth Defects Among Children of Persian
    Gulf War Veterans
    NEJM Jun 1997;336:1650-1656
• Rosalie Bertell, Ph.D.
  • Gulf War Syndrome and DU
  • Gulf War Veterans and DU
    Hague Peace Conference, May 1999
• WHO Should Undertake Full Inquiry into Gulf War Illness
  British Medical Journal, 22 May 1999

Other Resources

• Ability:  Gulf War Illness Links
• American Gulf War Veterans Association
• Anthrax and War:  The Marketing of Disaster
  Tim O'Shea
• Anthrax Vaccine
  Meryl Nass
• Anthrax Vaccine Links and Information
• Anthrax Vaccine:  Benefit vs. Risk
  AVIP Documents Archive
• ChronicIllnet:  Persian Gulf War Syndrome
• Depleted Uranium Weapons
  Physicians for Social Responsibility, July 1999
• Friendly Fire:  Mandatory Military Anthrax Vaccination Program
  Randall D. Katz, Duke Law Journal
• Guinea Pigs?
  Salon.com, 13 May 1999
• Gulf Daily:  News and Information
• Gulf War Veteran Resource Pages
• GulfLINK Intelligence
  Federation of American Scientists
• GulfWar.com
• James Madison Project
• MajorBates.com
• National Gulf War Research Center   NGWRC
  • Uncounted Casualities:  America's Ailing Gulf War Veterans
    17 January 2000 (.PDF)
• Pentagon Poison:  DU Ammo Coverup
  The Nation, May 1997
• Possible Anthrax Vaccination Dangers
• The Vaccination Debate
  PBS NewsHour, 10 April 2000
• Waiving Informed Consent:  Long Term Consequences for the US Military
  Office of Research Integrity, HHS (.PDF)