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Nuclear weapons continue to pose a serious health risk in Europe
Nuclear weapons in various European countries, particularly Russia, pose a serious threat to health, argues a letter in this week's BMJ.   view more (2005-07-25)

Seventeen per cent of veterans believe they have Gulf war syndrome
Seventeen per cent of Gulf war veterans believe they have Gulf war syndrome, find researchers in this week's BMJ. The study has implications for future health protection programmes intended to protect against the threat of chemical and biological warfare. Questionnaires were sent to a large random... view more (2001-08-29)

Are Gulf war veterans getting better?
Gulf war veterans still have considerably poorer health than other military personnel, but the health gap has narrowed slightly, finds a study in this week's BMJ. A second study shows no increased risk of cancer among Gulf war veterans. The first study compared the health of members of the UK armed... view more (2003-12-10)

Gulf war veterans most "chemically sensitised" of UK military personnel
Gulf war veterans are twice as likely to report sensitivity to chemicals as UK soldiers serving in the Bosnian conflict and those serving during the Gulf war but not deployed there, shows new research.   view more (2002-03-04)

Post-combat syndromes are not unique to the Gulf war
Post-combat syndromes are not unique to the Gulf war, but have arisen after all major wars over the past century, finds a study in this week's BMJ. Records for 1,856 British servicemen were randomly selected from war pension files. The research team identified three clusters of post-combat... view more (2002-02-06)

Chemistry & Industry Magazine - cover date 7 July 2003
NEWS The most toxic conflict Recent advances in the research into Gulf war syndrome means that soldiers returning from the latest conflict may be more fortunate than those returning after 1991. But how much are UK soldiers going to benefit from these advances? The UK spends a lot less than the US... view more (2003-07-03)

Gulf War Syndrome triggered by smells of war
This explanation of Gulf War Syndrome is published today, Monday 15 November, in the British Journal of Psychology, by Dr Eamonn Ferguson and Dr Helen Cassaday of the University of Nottingham.   view more (1999-11-15)

Gulf War Syndrome triggered by smells of war
The persistent symptoms of Gulf War Syndrome in the home years later could well be due to a sickness response to the body's immune system being conditioned to the smells, tastes and sounds of war.   view more (1998-12-03)

Were you an evacuee during the Second World War? ResCEW NEEDS YOU!
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, and researchers at The University of Reading are scouring the country for ex-evacuees to ensure that their experiences of wartime Britain are never forgotten.   view more (2005-05-20)

Large study confirms UK Gulf war servicemen report more ill health
The largest study of UK Gulf war servicemen, published today in BMC Public Health confirms that forces deployed to the first Gulf War report more ill health than veterans who did not serve there. Rebecca Simmons, Noreen Maconochie and Pat Doyle from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical... view more (2004-07-08)

Shame prevented soldiers from expressing war traumas
After the Second World War, Finnish psychiatrists felt that soldiers had readapted to civilian society very well. The reason was not that Finnish soldiers were exceptionally strong, but that war psychiatrists put the blame for long-term psychological problems on the soldiers themselves.   view more (2006-08-23)

Atrocities Against British Merchant Seamen During the Second World - New Research Findings
The book shows, among other things, that the German Navy routinely treated British merchant navy survivors with considerable kindness. Particularly early on in the war, German submariners risked their own lives to aid the crews of the ships which they had sunk. In the first weeks of the war the... view more (1999-08-05)

Images of war raise ethical concerns
Graphic media images of Iraqi civilian casualties raise questions about the boundaries of media ethics and, more importantly, medical ethics, according to an editorial in this week’s BMJ.   view more (2003-04-10)

Tackling the threat of nuclear terrorism
The only effective way to tackle the threat of nuclear terrorism is to abolish nuclear weapons and establish strict international control of all fissile materials that could be used to make new weapons, argue three US physicians in this week's BMJ. In the aftermath of 11 September 2001, nuclear... view more (2002-02-06)

Openness is key to winning the war over MMR
Openness and communication between experts and the public is key to winning the war over MMR, says an expert in this week's BMJ.   view more (2005-03-09)

Computational actinide chemistry: Are we there yet?
Ever since the Manhattan project in World War II, actinide chemistry has been essential for nuclear science and technology.   view more (2007-08-22)

War and the humanitarian response
Psychology could be the key to healing the emotional impact of war on civilians throughout the world. However, psychologists should ensure that their methods do not conflict with traditional beliefs and methods of coping.   view more (2002-02-27)

Veterans relive war trauma
Whilst the general public have been left in a state of shock after the events of September 11, the resulting war against terrorism is likely to have a significant psychological effect on one particular group in society; soldiers from past and present conflicts. In an article in the December issue... view more (2001-11-27)

University research shows that Tony Blair is benefiting from the presence of Gordon Brown
A survey conducted at the Centre for the Study of Group Processes, University of Kent, has thrown up some interesting results in the final run-up to the general election.   view more (2005-05-03)

Location, location, location: Transcriptional activity and nuclear position
Dr. Mark Groudine (FHCRC) and colleagues report on their surprising characterization of changes in intranuclear organization during murine erythropoiesis.   view more (2006-05-18)

What Shall We Do With Nuclear Waste?
There are two ways of dealing with the problem of nuclear waste. The first one is the easiest but not the most sensible: you can simply bury nuclear waste products and try to forget about them. However, this way does not seem to be the most rational. It seems much more attractive to try to derive... view more (2002-03-12)

Regional nuclear war could devastate global climate
Even a small-scale, regional nuclear war could produce as many direct fatalities as all of World War II and disrupt the global climate for a decade or more, with environmental effects that could be devastating for everyone on Earth, university researchers have found.   view more (2006-12-11)

VTT and the French Atomic Energy Commission CEA sign a cooperation agreement on nuclear energy research
VTT`s Director General, Erkki KM Lepp'¤vuori and the French CEA`s Director, Pascal Colombani signed an agreement on research cooperation in Paris . The agreement covers technology and research cooperations in the fields of spent nuclear fuels and nuclear waste management, nuclear research, training... view more (2002-11-14)

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... view more (2004-03-18)

Sustainable nuclear energy moves a step closer
In future a new generation of nuclear reactors will create energy, while producing virtually no long-lasting nuclear waste, according to research conducted by Wilfred van Rooijen, who will receive his Delft University of Technology PhD degree based on this research subject on Tuesday, 12 December.   view more (2006-12-12)
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