The Army has awarded a $156.6 million contract to the DynPort Vaccine division of Computer Sciences Corp for development of an anti-nerve gas agent that protects against a wide range of nerve gases ...

There was a brief scare Sunday afternoon after two workers became sick after opening a package in a mailroom at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. Initial reports said the two men were ...

Chemical weapons such as sarin gas and VX nerve gas can have horrifying effects on the human body, but now, scientists are hoping to develop better treatments for nerve-gas poisoning by sending their ...

New research from a Texas doctor has linked the onset of Gulf War illness in some veterans to exposure to the deadly nerve gas sarin. “Our findings prove that Gulf War illness was caused by sarin, ...

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Gulf War Syndrome -- the constellation of physical and mental ailments afflicting more than 150,000 Gulf War veterans, but largely dismissed by the medical community -- may be caused by low-level ...

What should a medical professional do when faced with a patient poisoned by a nerve agent? That question became relevant to doctors in Amesbury, England, on Saturday when a couple came into contact ...

As part of the fight against deadly chemical weapon attacks, researchers at the City College of New York have developed a new smart fabric that is capable of not only rapidly detecting nerve gas, but ...

Welcome to the city of Salisbury, where local market traders sell fresh organic vegetables, amid nervous talk of chemical weapons, and men in protective suits and gas masks walk in and out of the ...

BEIRUT – The day had begun much as any other over the past two months in the rebel-held town of Douma east of the Syrian capital, Damascus. Warplanes dropped bombs, families hid in basements, and ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The nerve gas sarin caused Gulf War illness, a new study suggests, and drug overdose deaths in the United States rose in 2021. Cleveland.com is rounding up some of the most notable ...

For three decades, scientists have debated the underlying cause of Gulf War illness (GWI), a collection of unexplained and chronic symptoms affecting veterans of the Persian Gulf War. Now researchers ...