Arizona State University, which discovered the compound. The promise of these and other possible disease-fighting compounds beneath the ocean's surface emphasizes the importance of protecting biodiversity. Many environmental groups have turned their attention to oceans because human activities are harming the seas. Some of these activities include wetlands destruction, overfishing, discharge of...

A significant portion of veterans who were deployed to the 1990 Gulf War developed Gulf War Illnesses (GWI), which are mainly characterised by persistent muskuloskeletal pain, fatigue, and cognitive problems (concentration, memory, and attention difficulties), and a large number of other signs and symptoms (1). In addition, Gulf War veterans who developed chronic abdominal pain and diarrhea exh...

Military personnel deployed to the Middle East included an unprecedented number of women, many of whom were mothers. Using a structural equation modeling approach, we examined the predictors of children’s adjustment problems in data collected from a representative sample of 263 Air Force mothers 2 years after the Gulf War. Using a retrospective survey, we found that the main predictors of child...

The postwar morbidity of Gulf War veterans has been closely examined. However, data have not been available to evaluate morbidity suffered during the 1991 Gulf War. In this report, the authors examine archived records of hospitalizations in US military facilities in the Kuwaiti theater of operations or those medically evacuated to facilities in Europe. Using multivariable logistic regression mo...

Mortality data on Gulf War veterans was reviewed as a means of evaluating the long term consequences of the war. Studies were located from searches of Medline, Proceedings of the Conference on Federally Sponsored Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses Research, Proceedings of the American Public Health Association Annual Meetings, Annual Reports to Congress, and personal contacts with knowledgeable inves...

The theater ballistic missile (TBM) problem encountered in the Persian Gulf War revealed an alarming deficiency in US defenses. This paper takes a brief look at the major theater missile defense (TMD) systems in use and under development by the US today. Second, it focuses on the performance of the Army’s Patriot defense system in the Gulf War. Finally, the paper fulfills its main purpose of of...

After the World War II, the world economy was disrupted and changed due to oil and its prices. The research in this paper presents the basic statistical features and economic characteristics of the Gulf economy. The main features of the Gulf economies and its heavy dependence on oil exports, its dualism between modern and traditional sectors and its rapidly increasing affluences are particularl...

This chapter reviews available data concerning the degree to which deployment to the Persian Gulf theater was experienced as a stressful event by military personnel. After a brief overview of potential stresses faced by deployed personnel both during and after deployment, the chapter describes groups postulated to be at particularly high risk of negative reactions to stress exposure. Finally, t...

To the Editor: In “Reemergence of Plasmodium vivax malaria in the Republic of Korea” (1), the term eradication was, in my judgment, inappropriately used. In 1981, Yekutiel proposed that eradication is “The purposeful reduction of specific disease prevalence to the point of continued absence of transmission within a specified area by means of a time limited campaign” (2). In 1984, Hinman propose...