INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE PUBLISHES REPORT ON HEALTH EFFECTS OF DEPLETED URANIUM EXPOSURE
July 30, 2008
July 30, 2008
WASHINGTON, July 30 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Deployment Health Support Directorate issued the following press release:
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has published its updated evaluation of depleted uranium and long term health outcomes in our Service members entitled, Gulf War and Health: Updated Literature Review of Depleted Uranium. The military uses depleted uranium in munitions because of its extreme hardness and armor-piercing ability to disable enemy-armored veh . . .
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has published its updated evaluation of depleted uranium and long term health outcomes in our Service members entitled, Gulf War and Health: Updated Literature Review of Depleted Uranium. The military uses depleted uranium in munitions because of its extreme hardness and armor-piercing ability to disable enemy-armored veh . . .