New study reports on reproductive health in UK veterans of the first Gulf war
The first epidemiological study to be conducted in the UK on reproduction following service in the Gulf War in the early '90s is published today in the International Journal of Epidemiology. It will, for the most part, prove reassuring to those who fear serving in the Gulf may have had an adverse effect on their reproductive health as the researchers conclude that veterans are no more likely to have a stillbirth or a child with chromosomal abnormalities than their armed service colleagues who were not deployed to the Gulf. The study has been funded by the Ministry of Defence and administered by the Medical Research Council (MRC). It was produced by staff at the London School of Hygiene & Tr