Exposure to the herbicide Agent Orange has been tied to a significantly increased risk for dementia in Vietnam War veterans, new research shows. Investigators at the University of California, San ...

A Bowie veteran whose family says the effects of the Vietnam War followed him long after he returned home will be among more than 760 veterans honored this weekend through the Vietnam Veterans ...

FILE- Flying a bare 100 feet above the jungle hills west of Hue, 5 bulky 'C-123 providers' cut loose a spray of chemical defoliant on August 14, 1968. The chemicals used burn off heavy foliage hiding ...

This lonely section of the abandoned Danang air base was once crawling with U.S. airmen and machines. It was here where giant orange drums were stored and the herbicides they contained were mixed and ...

The Cu Chi Tunnels, which were utilized by communist insurgents fighting the southern Republic of Vietnam during the 1960s and 1970s. This memory war mirrors the lopsided nature of the military ...

This week marks the 50 th anniversary of the end of the U.S. War on Vietnam, and the United States government continues to bear responsibility for cleaning up the ravages of war imposed on the ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Vietnam War-era veterans exposed to Agent Orange appear to have significantly more Graves' disease, a thyroid disorder, than veterans with no exposure, a new study by endocrinologists ...

In this episode of the “CURE® Talks Cancer” podcast, a cancer survivor who served in the Vietnam War shares the story of his Agent Orange exposure and bladder cancer. James R. Scott served in the army ...

Findings from a recent study demonstrated that exposure to Agent Orange increased the risk for bladder cancer but did not affect the disease’s aggressiveness. Vietnam veterans who were exposed to ...

When most people think about war, they imagine what happens on the battlefield—the deafening explosions, the destruction, the fear, and the lives lost in combat. Yet some wars never truly end. Long ...

DA NANG, Vietnam (AP) — The Vietnam War ended on April 30, 1975, when the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to Communist forces. But millions of people still face daily battles with its chemical ...