Pentagon admits postponing brain screenings
Ed Pilkington in New York
The Pentagon has admitted that it delayed introducing a routine screening of troops returning from Iraq for mild brain injuries because it feared that the extent of the problem could mushroom to the scale of the Gulf War syndrome after the first Iraq war.
The head of the Pentagon's medical assessments division has told USA Today that he wanted to avoid another controversy as potentially huge as Gulf War syndrome.
To read the full article from The Guardian, click on:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/18/usa.iraq
The Pentagon has admitted that it delayed introducing a routine screening of troops returning from Iraq for mild brain injuries because it feared that the extent of the problem could mushroom to the scale of the Gulf War syndrome after the first Iraq war.
The head of the Pentagon's medical assessments division has told USA Today that he wanted to avoid another controversy as potentially huge as Gulf War syndrome.
To read the full article from The Guardian, click on:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/18/usa.iraq
posted by Pax Christi @ Wednesday, March 19, 2008
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