Article: URANIUM SHRAPNEL TIED TO MEDICAL PROBLEMS FOR GULF VETERANS.(FRONT)

Byline: KNIGHT-RIDDER NEWS SERVICE

Researchers have found that Persian Gulf War veterans with depleted uranium shrapnel in their bodies have uranium in their semen, abnormal hormones and a possible decrease in problem-solving ability.

The findings appear to contradict Pentagon claims that exposure to the radioactive ammunition ``is not medically significant.''

Since 1993, researchers at the Baltimore Veterans Affairs Hospital have been studying about three dozen veterans who were in vehicles hit with depleted uranium rounds by ``friendly fire'' in the gulf war. At least 16 of the veterans are known to have small, inoperable fragments of depleted ...

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