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Congressional Briefing

Wednesday, April 18, 2001 -- 10:30 a.m.

334 Cannon House Office Building

on

Veterans and Agent Orange, Update 2000

by

Irva Hertz-Picciotto, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Chair, Committee to Review the Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Herbicides (Third Biennial Update), Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Institute of Medicine

Howard Ozer, M.D., Ph.D., Eason Chair and Chief of the Hematology/Oncology Section, Director of the Cancer Center and Professor of Medicine, University of Oklahoma, and Member, Committee to Review the Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Herbicides (Third Biennial Update), Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Institute of Medicine

This update, from the Committee to Review the Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Herbicides, reviews and re-evaluates scientific evidence on the statistical association between exposure to the dioxin and other chemicals in herbicides used in Vietnam, and health conditions or diseases of veterans. This report is the latest in a series of biennual reports on the subject.

This briefing was for members of Congress and congressional staff only. The report was publicly released on April 19, 2001 and is available online, in its entirety, through the National Academy Press web site.