By Ted Puntillo
According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the Institute of Medicine, approximately 250,000 of the 696,000 U.S. servicemen and women in the 1991 Gulf War continue to suffer from chronic, multiple-symptom illnesses. Commonly referred to as āGulf War Syndrome,ā chronic symptoms include fatigue, headaches, joint pain, indigestion, insomnia, dizziness, respiratory and memory problems.
Solano County veterans who served in the Gulf War and suffer from chronic disabilities resulting from undiagnosed illnesses may receive disability compensation from the VA. Benefits may include free, comprehensive medical examinations, including laboratory testing and other diagnostic tests to determine the chronic illness and associated care to treat symptoms.
According to studies conducted at the University of California, San Francisco, symptoms that cannot be easily 
quantified are sometimes incorrectly undiagnosed or dismissed as insignificant and therefore receive inadequate attention by the medical and scientific community. Veterans
who suffer from a cluster of multiple-symptom diseases deserve the very best that modern medicine can provide in order to speed up the development of effective treatments.
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