The National Birth Defect Registry is a comprehensive data
collection project designed to help answer parents’ question “why my
child”? The Registry was designed with a
team of prominent scientists. Data are collected
through an on-line portal that gathers information about all kinds of birth
defects, both structural and functional.
The questionnaire also asks about maternal and paternal health, genetic
and exposure histories and has two special sections that collect on military
exposures in Vietnam and during the Gulf War.
More than a dozen veterans advocacy groups will join forces
to track and highlight toxic exposure illnesses among former military members
in an attempt to push for quicker action on what they see as a looming health
crisis.
The Toxic Exposures in the American Military coalition,
announced this week, will coordinate efforts from groups like Wounded Warrior
Project, Vietnam Veterans of America, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America,
Veteran Warriors Inc., and the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors.
The focus will be on issues related to exposures in the
recent wars, although the groups have also advocated on illnesses related to
chemical poisoning in the ranks from earlier periods.
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