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Depleted Uranium Research-DU affects DNA

ShareDepleted Uranium -More Research Indicated To Assess Health Risk
The research on depleted uranium comes out of French researchers that examined the manner DNA is affected by enriched and depleted uranium. The metal or chemical effect it seems is the more important in depleted uranium exposure. 
Questions remain on the problem of inhalation and ingestion of depleted [...]

Breast Cancer in Iraq leads to Gulf War Veteran News Alert and Rep Boswell Legislation

ShareGulf War Veterans need to be made aware of the following articles.  Alert for all female veterans you know the drill!  Self Breast Checks often and Mammograms.  VA does provide this, so make use of that service!
Male Veterans yes you too can get breast cancer.  Again our females will have to teach you the principles [...]

C141 Charleston Unit Gulf War Veteran Pilot Makes it Happen

ShareWE at Veterans Today are excited that we helped open the door to get this story moving that then went to VA Watchdog and then to Channel 13 in Indiana.  We hope that all of the Charleston unit members that are affected get help now!  We also hope the widows have their claims handled in [...]

*Action Alert: Help Gulf War Vets* Update on Support in US House of Representative, Attention Turns to US Senators

ShareThe List is in on who signed on to House side to support Gulf War illness Research for DOD CDMRP funding for Gulf War illness research-the letter goes to House Appropriations Committee………..
Current Signers:  Kucinich, Holt, Filner, Michaud, Henry Brown, Corrine Brown, Berkley, Doggett, Hall, Conyers, Jr., McDermott, Ross, Hastings, Baldwin, Dennis Moore, Gwen Moore, Stark, Kagen, [...]

Federal Registry Posts New Rules for VA Presumptions of Service Connections of 9 Infectious Diseases for Persian Gulf Service

ShareThe VA has proposed to add 9 infectious diseases to presumptions for service connection for Gulf War Veterans. Nineteen years and the VA finally recognizing some illnesses that were tested for by the Comprehensive Clinical Evaluations that were done in the early 1990’s. The slowness that has been evident at the VA for [...]

Institute of Medicine Update Report on Health of Gulf War Veterans and Depleted Uranium

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In case you missed it, here is the IOM report, as reported by the federal registry(below), on the update to their study on Depleted Uranium. Well sorry all no news here, another toilet paper report for the veterans of the Gulf War 1990-91 and veterans since. We love our DU Armory more than we [...]

In Memory: Gulf War Illness Researcher Dr Jerry Buccafussco

ShareThis past week the gulf war veterans lost a researcher that had one of the earliest studies that brought attention to gulf war illness (see abstract attached). It is sad to lose such a talented researcher and sadder still because he obviously would have been one of the researchers with the background and training to [...]

Science Rules The Day For Gulf War Veterans In Their Battle With The VA

The veterans of the Gulf War 1990-91 have mighty support from scientific breakthroughs that have occurred with the backing of Ross Perot that started in the early years after they returned from the Gulf War in 1991. Mr Perot met with a group of Navy Seebees in the early 90’s that had returned sick and faced strong opposition from the government that was suppose to support their veterans.

Gulf War Illness Researcher Georgetown University-Seeking Gulf War Veterans Healthy and Ill

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Dr Barinauck and his staff are exceptional!  Dr Barinauck site is full of the information on his current studies.  He has three gulf war illness studies:
1.  Gulf War Illness and Exercise
2.  Gulf War Illness Treatment Study ie Carnosine
3.  Gulf War Illness and CNDP1
Please he needs healthy and ill participants.  Please click on the link provided [...]

DOD CDMRP Announces Gulf War Illness Research 09 Awardees

ShareThis AM on the DOD-CDMRP website the list of those awarded funding from FY09 for Gulf War Illness Research are announced and they are:
Investigator Inititated Research:
Lovelace Biomedical and Environmental Research Institute- Researcher Mohan Sopori
Mass General- Anne Louise Oaklander
Wayne State University- Henry Heng
For Innovative Treatment:
NYSU Albany- David Carpenter
Western Institute for Biomedical Research-Ashok Tuteja
These researchers submitted proposals and went [...]

IL-10 Cytokine Testing Needed for Veterans of the Gulf War

ShareThe research article below from the Clinical Vaccine Immunological Journal discusses chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, and sleep disturbances on the measurement of IL-10 Cytokine Testing .  As far as known no gulf war veterans were participants in this study from the Pain and Fatigue Study Center and Departments of Neurosciences and Medicine at the New Jersey [...]

Alert Sounds for the VA Gulf War Task Force to Get it Right This Time and Alert for the Veterans of the Gulf War 1990-91 with Respiratory Complaints

ShareGulf War Veterans that have had extensive respiratory changes in basic measurement on lung functions and vital capacity need to remember to assess data gather in the early 90’s during the Comprehensive Clinical Evaluation Examination Program(CCEEP) and their medical records since those examinations. The veterans might also want to assess any of the DOD required [...]

GULF WAR VETERANS 90-91 ASK FOR HELP WITH VISUAL PROBLEMS

ShareGULF WAR VETERANS HAVE VISUAL PROBLEMS IMPACTING SAFETY AND QUALITY OF LIFE
For 19 years the Gulf War Veterans have suffered.  Back in the 1990s during the time of the Comprehensive Clinical Examination Evaluation Program(CCEEP) Eye Examinations were being done!  But since then despite pleas to consider the visual problems of veterans of Operation Desert Storm, little [...]

Potential Treatment Options for GWI, CFS, Fibromyalgia

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Chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia patients might appreciate this new research article that highlight supplements that might be beneficial.  Magnesium, l-carnitine, and S-adenosylmethionine are nonpharmacological supplements with the most potential for further research.  This is a constantly changing situation and might encourage the VA to also consult with alternative medicine and environmental medicine experts in [...]

Evidence of Change for Gulf War Vets Not Translating to Transparency in Government

ShareThe VA First Internal Evidence Of Change For Gulf War Veterans Of 1990-91 Does Not Transmit President Obama Pledge For Transparency in Government
VETERANS AFFAIRS FIRST OUTWARD EVIDENCE OF GULF WAR TASK FORCE EFFECTS ACTUALLY SHOWS FEBRUARY 4,2010
In November the VA Research Advisory Committee met and was to be followed the day after by a US [...]

Two Veterans’ Cases in Last month Question DU

ShareCouple Aims To Improve Military Health Care
RANCHO BERNARDO, Calif. — A Rancho Bernardo couple has begun a campaign for federal legislation regarding health care for military veterans. While they have no complaints about the care and treatment afforded by the Veterans’ Administration, Aaron Dial and his fiancée Heidi Christ think there should be more screenings [...]

Multiple Sclerosis Research Focuses on Autoimmune Symptoms and Bacterium

ShareItalian Researchers Discover A Possible Onset Mechanism For Multiple Sclerosis
 
A non-pathogenic bacterium is capable of triggering an autoimmune disease similar to multiple sclerosis in the mouse, the model animal which helps to explain how human diseases work. This is what a group of researchers from the Catholic University of Rome, led by Francesco Ria (Institute [...]

GULF WAR VETERANS TO VA SECRETARY ON VA OPENING VETERANS’ CLAIMS, ‘WE’RE HIGHLY SKEPTICAL’

ShareGulf War Veterans question how well the VA’s plan will work at reopening Gulf War Veterans’ claims on Gulf War Illness.Gulf War Veterans are concerned about how today’s headline, “VA to reopen Gulf War vets’ files”, will impact the VA’s procedures in determining their current and future benefits from the VA.
Jim Bunker, president for the National [...]

PRESIDENT OF GULF WAR VETERANS GROUPS CRITICIZE VA RESEARCH ON GULF WAR ILLNESS AND VA DIRECTIVE LETTER ON CLAIMS/BENEFITS PROCESSING

The first is the VA spending $11 million on a piece of equipment that will go to a researcher trying to duplicate Dr Haley’s study and failing. The reason he could not duplicate this study is because he did not use the same criteria for his control and study groups as did Dr. Haley. Therefore, he examined vets who were not truly sick.

GULF WAR ILLNESS RESEARCH LED BY DR HALEY AND SUPPORTER ROSS PEROT CONTRIBUTES TO UNHERALDED ADVANCES IN NEUROSCIENCE

ShareUCA professor researching Gulf War Syndrome
By Courtney Spradlin
University of Central Arkansas professor Patrick Carmack is working on what could be a monumental step in the detection and treatment of neurological disorders.
Carmack is an assistant professor of mathematics, who attended the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. At the school, he paired with a [...]

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