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 ...

A previous bill — the Toxic Exposure Research Act — that Congress adopted in 2016 had authorized research into birth defects associated with chemical exposures during military service.

The VA needs to recognize that multiple birth defects from the father’s exposure in Vietnam are also the result of exposure to Agent Orange. Celebrations in Ho Chi Minh City on April 30, 2025 ...

Decades later, the legacy of Agent Orange isn't just illnesses, birth defects and continued deforestation in Vietnam. It's also the question of the United States' legal liability for its use, how ...

The move responded to a record-low birth rate that has persisted below population replacement levels for three years, ...

As a Vietnam War refugee who fled to U.S., I wanted to mark this 50th anniversary with hope. Then I read about Trump's order to U.S. Embassy in Hanoi.

The Vietnam War ended 50 years ago but the disaster unleashed by American use of Agent Orange continues ... a type of chemical linked to cancer, birth defects and lasting environmental damage.

Agent Orange was laced with dioxin, a type of chemical linked to cancer, birth defects and lasting environmental damage. Today, 3 million people, including many children, still suffer serious ...

The main health consequences are birth defects and cancer. Excess barrels of Agent Orange rusting on a beach on Johnson Atoll in 1976. | Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain ...

A Laotian doctor and his nurse wife traveled 1,000 kilometers to Vietnam in a desperate bid to save their newborn son, who had multiple rare and life-threatening heart defects.

A person's genetic makeup is determined at conception. It is then, during the nuclear events of fertilization, that the genetic causes of many birth defects are determined.For example, chromosomal ...