More than two generations after its first use, Agent Orange continues to be a major health issue for both the people exposed and their children. The Dangers Agent Orange is a mixture of two active ...

I am a 57-year-old Vietnam vet who was exposed to Agent Orange. At age 41, I had to have an emergency heart bypass. I have ...

Agent Orange, sprayed over Vietnam from 1965 to 1971, was recognized in 1991 in the first Agent Orange Act passed by Congress. The science of dioxin contamination is well-known.

JESSUP – As a 19-year-old from Jessup hiking through Vietnamese jungles, Russell Canevari ignored the Agent Orange coating the landscape. His focus was survival. “We really didn’t… ...

While the PACT Act includes glioblastoma as a presumptive condition related to burn pit exposure, it’s not included for Agent ...

First time a [soldier] had been in there in three years, and they had sprayed it like a road, so to speak, with that Agent Orange, and we shot our way in,” he said. It was all over his body.

In February, the VA proposed a rule that for the first time would allow compensation to veterans for Agent Orange exposure at 17 U.S. bases in a dozen states where the herbicide was tested, used ...

As the widow of a veteran exposed to Agent Orange, Francesca Cesare receives $1,235 a month from the government. She works part time to stay busy and to keep her mind off her husband's plight.

After use of Agent Orange was banned in the early 1970s, remaining batches were taken to Johnston Atoll — a U.S. controlled island 700 miles southeast of Hawaii — where they were later ...

In February, the VA proposed a rule that for the first time would allow compensation to veterans for Agent Orange exposure at 17 U.S. bases in a dozen states where the herbicide was tested, used ...

JESSUP – As a 19-year-old from Jessup hiking through Vietnamese jungles, Russell Canevari ignored the Agent Orange coating the landscape. His focus was survival. “We really didn’t… ...