Library - Reports, Articles & Papers

Overview by Dr Nigel Graveston, Chairman, NGV&FA, 2004

So far we have catalogued over 80 items in our archive. Some of these published items are of considerable significance while others are considerably less so. Some items are fairly easy to read for the layperson and non-technical reader. However, some are considerably more difficult due to their content of highly specialised material, particularly in the fields of physics, biochemistry, molecular biology and mathematical statistics. There are differences between reports, articles and papers.

Reports: These tend to be collections of information produced for a specific purpose, e.g. briefing a committee.

Articles: These are probably the easiest to read. They tend to be more of a general and less formal presentation of a topic.

Scientific Papers: These are original research papers or review articles published in scientific journals. These are "peer reviewed", which requires all the i's dotted and the t's crossed and the whole thing written in a certain style so that there is no chance of ambiguity. Fortunately all these papers have a summary at the beginning which contain the main findings of the research project. For the adventurous the method and sometimes the preamble before it can be of interest. The discussion section at the end and some of the tables and graphs in the results section may also be of interest. The text of the results section has a tendency to be horrendous (sometimes even to the seasoned reader !).

In order to give a indication of the ease of understanding the publications each item has been given a C (for complexity) rating, shown next to the title :

C3 : Scientific paper of indigestible prose, containing large amount of technically demanding material. For the non-scientific the summary may be enough to get the gist of the paper.

Please don't be put off reading the articles. There is reading material for all ranges of interest and technical know-how. You will probably find that by reading some of the C1 rated items that they will help you to move on to C2 rated. If you don't know at what level to start; well just dip in!

For the Statistically Curious : All medical research papers will contain statistics. These are proper mathematical statistics, not the sort used by politicians, which are more often than not just raw data. Most doctors have a basic understanding of statistics but the real meaty stuff is usually done by a qualified statistician. There are a couple of statistical terms which might be helpful to the statistically curious and adventurous. Odds Ratio: This term means the ratio of some thing occurring in a particular group under study compared to a standard control group. E.g. In the recent paper published concerning pregnancy outcome in the wives of male veterans and female veterans (71 & 72) the odds ratio for miscarriage for the study group was 1.4. This means that women in the study group are 1.4 times as likely to miscarry. p Value: This is a measure of significance. If the results of a study show a significant difference between two or more groups then the p Value must be less than 0.05 (p<0.05). It is strongly recommended that you don't ask how the p Value is arrived at because that is where the mathematical fun really starts.

Wishing you informative and instructive reading.

KEY :	Written by Prof. Malcolm Hooper	Depleted Uranium	Reproduction
	Relating to GWS in UK Veterans	MoD Issued Reports	Vaccines
	Relating to GWS in US Veterans	Paraxanose / Nerve Agents	Osteoporosis

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#	Title / Description	Complexity	Category	Size
1	MEDICAL EFFECTS OF INTERNAL CONTAMINATION WITH URANIUM Author(s) : ASAF DURAKOVIC	C2		91 Kb
2	On Depleted Uranium: Gulf War and Balkan Syndrome 2001 Author(s) : ASAF DURAKOVIC	C2		62 Kb
3	THE GULF WAR AND ILLNESS BY ASSOCIATION Author(s) : Eamonn Ferguson, School of Psychology, University of Nottingham			5 Mb
4	HEALTH OF UK SERVICEMEN WHO SERVED IN PERSIAN GULF WAR Author(s) : PROF. SIMON WESSELY	C1		6 Mb
5	ROLE OF VACCINATIONS AS RISK FACTORS FOR ILL HEALTH IN GULF WAR VETS Author(s) : KINGS COLLEGE, LONDON	C2		243 Kb
6	LOW PARAOXONASE IN PERSIAN GULF WAR VETERANS Author(s) : BHARTI MACKNESS	C3		3 Mb
7	GULF WAR ILLNESSES/SYNDROME INFORMATION FOR CLINICIANS Author(s) : PROF. MALCOLM HOOPER	C2		5 Mb
8	THE MOST TOXIC WAR IN WESTERN MILITARY HISTORY Author(s) : PROF MALCOLM HOOPER	C2		23 Mb
9	HEALTH AND EXPOSURES OF UK GULF WAR VETERANS - Part I Author(s) : NICHOLA CHERRY	C1		357 Kb
10	HEALTH AND EXPOSURES OF UK GULF WAR VETERANS - Part II Author(s) : NICHOLA CHERRY	C1		216 Kb
11	CLINICAL FINDINGS FOR THE FIRST 1000 GULF WAR VETERANS IN THE M.o.D. MEDICAL ASSESSMENT PROGRAMME Author(s) : MoD	C1		243 Kb
12	TOXICITY OF DEPLETED URANIUM Author(s) : THE LANCET	C2		61 Kb
13	MOD INDEPENDENT PANEL – Report from Prof Malcolm Hooper for Gulf War Veterans (1998) Author(s) : Prof Malcolm Hooper	C1		117 Kb
14	ANTIBODIES TO SQUALENE IN GULF WAR SYNDROME (1999) – Report Author(s) : Pamela B. Asa – Tulane Medical School, Louisiana	C3		131 Kb
18	CLINICAL FINDINGS OF THE SECOND 1000 UK GULF WAR VETERANS WHO ATTENDED THE MoD MAPS Author(s) : HA Lee, R Gabriel, AJ Bale, P Bolton NF Blatchley	C1		413 Kb
19	THE ENDOGENOUS ADJUVANT SQUALENE CAN INDUCE A CHRONIC T-CELL MEDIATED ARTHRITIS IN RATS Author(s) : Carlson, Jansson, Larsson, Bucht & Lorentzen	C3		694 Kb
20	GULF WAR ILLNESSES – Causes and Treatments Author(s) : Prof Garth Nicolson, Institute of Molecular Medicine, California	C2		264 Kb
21	PREGNANCY OUTCOMES AMONG U.S. GULF WAR VETERANS: A POPULATION BASED SURVEY OF 30,000 VETERANS Author(s) : Environmental Epidemiology Service, Department of Veterans Affairs	C2		76 Kb
22	MACROPHAGIC MYOFASCIITIS LESIONS ASSESS LONG-TERM PERSISTENCE OF VACCINE-DERIVED ALUMINIUM HYDROXIDE IN MUSCLE Author(s) : R.K Gherardi, Coquet, Cherin, Belec, Moetto, Dreyfus, Pellissier, Chariot & Authier			304 Kb
23	PREVALANCE OF GULF WAR VETERANS WHO BELIEVE THEY HAVE GULF WAR SYNDROME:- QUESTIONNAIRE STUDY Author(s) : Chalder, Hotopf, Unwin, David & Wessely	C1		233 Kb
24	HEALTH RISKS FOLLOWING EXPOSURE TO AEROSOLS PRODUCED BY THE USE OF DEPLETED URANIUM WEAPONS Author(s) : Chris Busby PhD	C1		390 Kb
26	MEDICAL ASSESSMENT PROGRAMME – letter about the first 33 veterans Author(s) : Surgeon General (Beale)	C1		76 Kb
27	MEDICAL ASSESSMENT PROGRAMME – letter about the first 200 veterans Author(s) : Surgeon General (Revell)	C1		99 Kb
28	MEDICAL ASSESSMENT PROGRAMME – A Review of Gulf War Illness based on the first 284 veterans Author(s) : W J Coker OBE	C1		219 Kb
29	ABRS – HOW TO CLAIM Author(s) : MoD			120 Kb
30	TEN YEARS LATER – OBTAINING AN ADEQUATE DIAGNOSIS OF GWI Author(s) : Dr Garth L Nicolson	C2		182 Kb
31	GULF WAR ILLNESSES: Chemical, Biological & Radiological Exposures Resulting in Chronic Fatiguing Illnesses can be identified and treated Author(s) : Nicolson, Brens, Nasralla, Haier, Nicolson & Nass	C2		333 Kb
32	HIGH FREQUENCY OF SYSTEMIC MYCOPLASMAL INFECTIONS IN GULF WAR VETERANS & CIVILIANS WITH ALS Author(s) : Nicolson, Nasralla, Haier and Pomfret	C3		255 Kb
33	ROLE OF MYCOLPLASMAL INFECTIONS IN FATIGUE ILLNESS Author(s) : Nicolson, Nasralla, Franco, Meirleir, Nicolson, Ngwenya and Haier	C3		167 Kb
34	HIGH PREVALENCE OF MYCOPLASMAL INFECTIONS IN SYMPTOMATIC (CFS) FAMILY MEMBERS Author(s) : Nicolson, Marwan, Nasralla, Nicolson and Haier	C2		918 Kb
35	POST-COMBAT SYNDROMES FROM THE BOER WAR TO THE GULF WAR Author(s) : Edgar Jones, Hodgins-Vermaas, McCartney, Everitt, Beech, Poynter, Palmer, Hyams & Simon Wessely	C1		286 Kb
36	THE ANTHRAX VACCINE PROGRAM: AN ANALYSIS OF THE CDC’s RECOMMENDATIONS FOR VACCINE USE Author(s) : Meryl Ness MD	C1		12 Mb
37	UNEXPLAINED HEALTH PROBLEMS AFTER GULF WAR SERVICE – FINDING ANSWERS TO COMPLEX QUESTIONS Author(s) : Lea Steele	C1		5 Mb
38	ANTIBODIES TO SQUALENE IN RECIPIENTS OF ANTHRAX VACCINE (2001) - Report Author(s) : Pamela B. Asa, Russell B Wilson & Robert F Garry	C3		67 Kb
39	BRAIN ABNORMALITIES IN GULF WAR SYNDROME: EVALUATION WITH 1H MR SPECTROSCOPY1 Author(s) : R W Haley, W W Marshall, G G McDonald, M A Daugherty, F Petty & J L Fleckenstein	C3		298 Kb
40	PREVALENCE & PATTERNS OF GULF WAR ILLNESS IN KANSAS VETERANS: ASSOCIATION OF SYMPTOMS WITH CHARACTERISTICS OF PERSON, PLACE & TIME OF MILITARY SERVICE Author(s) : Lea Steele	C2		8 Mb
41	DO PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS EXPLAIN ILLHEALTH IN UNITED KINGDOM GULF VETERANS? Author(s) : K Ismail, S Wessely, et al	C1		7 Mb
50	GULF WAR SYNDROME:- Eight years of research on the nature of the disease and its causes. Author(s) : TESTIMONY OF ROBERT W HALEY M.D.	C1		219 Kb
51	SEVERELY REDUCED FUNCTIONAL STATUS IN VETERANS FITTING A CASE DEFINITION OF GULF WAR SYNDROME Author(s) : Haley, Maddrey & Gershenfeld	C2		3 Mb
53	PON1 STATUS AND NEUROLOGIC SYMPTOM COMPLEXES IN GULF WAR VETERANS Author(s) : Clement E Furlong	C3		2 Mb
54	EFFECT OF BASAL GANGLIA INJURY ON CENTRAL DOPAMINE ACTIVITY IN GULF WAR SYNDROME Author(s) : Haley, Fleckenstein, Marshall, McDonald, Kramer & Petty	C3		7 Mb
55	USE OF STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING TO TEST THE CONSTRUCT VALIDITY OF A CASE DEFINITION OF GULF WAR SYNDROME Author(s) : Haley, Luk & Petty	C3		18 Mb
56	THE QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF DEPLETED URANIUM ISOTOPES IN BRITISH, CANADIAN AND U.S. GULF WAR VETERANS Author(s) : Col A Durakovic	C2		112 Kb
57	HEALTH STATUS AND CLINICAL DIAGNOSES OF 3000 UK GULF WAR VETERANS Author(s) : Harry A Lee, Roger Gabriel, J P G Bolton, Amanda J Bale & Mark Jackson			4 Mb
58	REPORTED CHEMICAL SENSITIVITIES IN A HEALTH SURVEY OF UK MILITARY PERSONNEL Author(s) : Reid, Hotopf, Hull, Ismail, Unwin, Wessely	C1		4 Mb
59	SKIN DISEASE IN GULF WAR VETERANS Author(s) : Higgins, Kant, Harman, Mellerio, du Vivier & Wessely	C1		6 Mb
60	REDUCED BONE FORMATION IN UK GULF WAR VETERANS: A BONE HISTOMORPHOMETRIC STUDY Author(s) : J E Compston, S Vedi, A B Stephen, S Bord, A R Lyons, S J Hodges & B E Scammell	C3		110 Kb
61	NEUROPHYSIOLOGIC ANALYSIS OF NEUROMUSCULAR SYMPTOMS IN UK GULF WAR VETERANS Author(s) : Sharief, Priddin, Delamont, Unwin, Rose, David & Wessely	C2		314 Kb
62	SUBCHRONIC DERMAL APPLICATION OF N,N-DIETHYL m-TOLUAMIDE (DEET) AND PERMETHRIN TO ADULT RATS, ALONE OR IN COMBINATION, CAUSES DIFFUSE NEURONAL CELL DEATH AND CYTOSKELETAL ABNORMALITIES IN THE CEREBRAL CORTEX AND THE HIPPOCAMPUS, AND PURKINJE NEURON LOSS I Author(s) : Ali Abdel-Rahman, Ashok K Shetty & M Abou-Donia			4 Mb
63	RESPONSE OF RATS TO LOW LEVELS OF SARIN Author(s) : Henderson, Barr, Blackwell, Clark, Conn, Kalra, March, Sopori, Tesfaigzi, Menache, Mash	C3		208 Kb
64	SUBCLINICAL DOSES OF THE NERVE GAS SARIN IMPAIR T CELL RESPONSES THROUGH THE AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM Author(s) : Kalra, Singh, Razani-Boroujerdi, Langley, Blackwell, Henderson & Sopori	C3		102 Kb
65	PROTEIN BINDING OF ISOFLUOROPHATE IN VIVO AFTER COEXPOSURE TO MULTIPLE CHEMICALS Author(s) : Vogel, Keating II & Buchholz			657 Kb
66	ANTINUCLEAR AUTOANTIBODIES (ANA) IN GULF WAR-RELATED ILLNESS AND CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME (CFS) PATIENTS Author(s) : A Skowera, E Stewart, E T Davis, A J Cleare, C Unwin, L Hull, K Ismail, Hossain, S C Wessely & M Peakman	C2		3 Mb
69	PARAOXONASE IN PERSIAN GULF WAR VETERANS Author(s) : Matthew Hotopf PhD, Michael Ian Mackness PhD, Vasilis Nikolaou MSc, David A Collier PhD, Charles Curtis BSc, Anthony David MD, Paul Durrington MD, Lisa Hull BSc, Khalida Ismail MRCPsych, Mark Peakman PhD, Catherine Unwin MSc, Simon Wessely MD, Bharti Mack			170 Kb
70	DEPLETED URANIUM – USES AND HAZARDS Author(s) : Doug Rokke	C1		256 Kb
71	THE STUDY OF REPRODUCTIVE OUTCOME AND THE HEALTH OF OFFSPRING OF UK VETERANS OF THE GULF WAR: METHODS AND DESCRIPTION OF THE STUDY POPULATION Author(s) : Maconochie, Doyle, Davies, Leis, Pelrin, Prior & Sampson	C2		279 Kb
72	MISCARRIAGE, STILLBIRTH AND CONGENITAL MALFORMATION IN THE OFFSPRING OF UK VETERANS OF THE FIRST GULF WAR Author(s) : Doyle, Maconochie, Davies, Maconochie, Pelerin, Prior & Lewis	C2		223 Kb
73	GULF WAR ILLNESS – BETTER, WORSE, OR JUST THE SAME? A COHORT STUDY Author(s) : Hotopf, David, Hull, Nikalaou, Unwin & Wessely			90 Kb
74	INCIDENCE OF CANCER AMONG UK GULF WAR VETERANS: COHORT STUDY Author(s) : Macfarlane, Biggs, Maconochie, Hotopf, Doyle & Lunt	C2		80 Kb
75	UNDIAGNOSED ILLNESSES AND RADIOACTIVE WARFARE Author(s) : Durakovic	C2		170 Kb
76	SCIENCE OR SCIENCE FICTION? Acts, Myths and Propaganda in the debate over Depleted Uranium Weapons Author(s) : Dan Fahey	C1		204 Kb
77	DO PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS EXPLAIN ILLHEALTH IN UNITED KINGDON GULF VETERANS? Author(s) : Ismail, Davies, Brugha, David, Hotopf, Hull, Palmer, Reid, Unwin & Wessely			404 Kb
78	EXCESS INCIDENCE OF ALS IN YOUNG GULF WAR VETERANS Author(s) : R W Haley MD	C2		154 Kb
79	OCCURRENCE OF AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS AMOUNG GULF WAR VETERANS Author(s) : Horner, Kamins, Feussner, Grambw, Hoff-Lindquist, Harati, Mitsumoto, Pascuzzi, Spencer, Tim, Howard, Smith, Ryan, Coffman & Kasarskis	C2		139 Kb
80	THE HEALTH CONSEQUENCES OF THE FIRST GULF WAR Author(s) : BMJ & DR GRAVESTON			112 Kb
82	WOMEN IN THE GULF: Lack of gender differences in long term heath effects of service in UK armed forces in the 1991 Gulf War Author(s) : Unwin, Hotopf, Hull, Ismail, David & Wessely			161 Kb
83	DEPLETED LEGITIMACY: THE U.S. STUDY OF GULF WAR VETERANS EXPOSED TO DEPLETED URANIUM Author(s) : Dan Fahey			255 Kb
84	EFFECTS OF EXPOSURE TO ANTHRAX AND PETUSSIS VACCINE COMBINATIONS IN A MURINE MODEL Author(s) : Rijpkema, Adams, Rigsby, McKinney, Xing & Corbel			10 Mb
85	GOOD MEDICAL PRACTICE Author(s) : General Medical Council			89 Kb
86	ILLNESS EXPERIENCE OF GULF WAR VETERANS POSSIBLY EXPOSED TO CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS Author(s) : McCauley, Lasarev, Sticker, Rischitelli, Spencer			101 Kb
87	GULF WAR SYNDOME: THE MOST TOXIC CONFLICT Author(s) : Nimah Delaney	C1		10 Mb
88	GAO - GULF WAR ILLNESSES: DOD's CONCLUSIONS ABOUT US TROOPS' EXPOSURE CANNOT BE ADEQUATELY SUPPORTED Author(s) : Keith Rhoes, Chief Technologist Center for Technology and Engineering, Applied Research and Methods			202 Kb
89	BONE MARROW AND BONE: A FUNCTIONAL UNIT Author(s) : J E Compston			6 Mb
90	A BLOOD TEST FOR THE CUMULATIVE DAMAGE TO BONE MARROW STEM CELLS FROM RADIATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS: - CANCER RISK ASSESSMENT FOR A LIFETIME Author(s) : J.K Gong, C.A Glomski			2 Mb
91	IRON KINETICS OF 88 MILRADS. PARTIAL-VERSUS-TOTAL BODY X-IRRADIATION Author(s) : J.K Gong, C.A Glomski, A.K Bruce			5 Mb
92	EFFECTS OF LOW-LEVEL (1.0 R) X-IRRADIATION ON THE ERYTHROID RESPONSE OF THE RAT BONE MARROW Author(s) : J.K Gong, C.A Glomski, N.L.Frederiksen, A.J Lawson and J.P Daley			5 Mb
93	EFFECTS OF LOW DOSE (LESS THAN 1 RAD) X-RAYS ON THE ERYTHROPOIETIC MARROW Author(s) : J.K Gong, C.A Glomski, and A.K Bruce			6 Mb
94	ANEMIC STRESS AS A TRIGGER OF MYLEGENOUS LEUKEMIA IN RATS RENDERED LEUKEMIA PRONE BY X-RAY Author(s) : J.K Gong			4 Mb
95	ANEMIC STRESS AS A TRIGGER OF MYLEGENOUS LEUKEMIA IN THE UNIRRADIATED RF MOUSE Author(s) : J.K Gong, P.G. Braunschweiger, C.A Glomski			6 Mb
96	ENDOSTEAL MARROW: A RICH SOURCE OF HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS Author(s) : J.K Gong			4 Mb
97	A LIFELONG, WIDE RANGE RADIATION BIODOSIMETER: ENYTHROCYTES WITH TRANSFERRIN RECEPTORS Author(s) : J.K Gong, C.A Glomski and Y .Guo			6 Mb

KEY :	Written by Prof. Malcolm Hooper	Depleted Uranium	Reproduction
	Relating to GWS in UK Veterans	MoD Issued Reports	Vaccines
	Relating to GWS in US Veterans	Paraxanose / Nerve Agents	Osteoporosis