Dr. Robert HaleyFor more than a decade, UT Southwestern epidemiologist Robert Haley has been at odds with naysayers over the existence of Gulf War Syndrome; here, from 1998, is Ann Zimmerman's piece in the Observer about the doc's battle with government officials who insisted that those symptoms -- everything from all-over aches to severe fatigue to memory and hair loss -- were little more than figments of the soldiers' imaginations. Most recently, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has
Dr. Robert HaleyA little more than one month after a report by Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General accused epidemiologist and longtime Gulf War Syndrome researcher Robert Haley and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center of wasting millions and failing to live up to the terms of a five-year, $75-million federal grant, the VA has killed the deal. Perhaps this wasn't unexpected; after all, the report concluded that "it appears that UTSWMC has given VA has no optio
