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Nature 407, 121 (14 September 2000) | doi:10.1038/35025263

US panel draws blank on Gulf War symptoms

Meredith Wadman

The fierce controversy over the origins of the chronic symptoms reported by US Gulf War veterans is set to continue. Last week, an expert committee at the Institute of Medicine (IOM) concluded it could not resolve the issue because there is not enough published evidence about the effects of exposure to suspect substances.