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 [...]

Sandra Chapman: Lt. Col. Steve Avery, Gulf War Vet, Gets Benefits Restored

ShareVeteran gets benefits restored after WTHR report
By Sandra Chapman, TV 13 Indianapolis Special Report
Editors note:  Lt. Col. Avery is a regular contributor on Veterans Today.
HEADLINESTwo arrested for stealing catalytic convertersVeteran gets benefits restored after WTHR reportPike Township wants approval for $21M elementary schoolNew guidelines issued for flea and tick medicationsHoosiers urged to get H1N1 shotsFess [...]

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 [...]

CAROL DUFF: PRO-LIFERS WOULD MAKE SURE THAT YOU NEVER HAVE HEALTHCARE

ShareAmerica, do you or do you not want health care for your children, grandchildren, parents, far-reaching relatives, friends, neighbors and even yourself?  The seriousness of no healthcare should not be ignored by ANYONE.  Maybe we should get used to the concept because there are those who will use every imaginable ploy to keep healthcare out [...]

Erroneous Reports Deny Our Veterans Benefits

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Garden Grove, CA – March 16, 2010 — As a member of Veterans-For-Change, an advocacy group for Veterans rights, benefits, and treatment, my co-members and I would like to bring to your attention the ever-increasing serious problems affecting veterans and their families every day.
President Barack Obama addressed the Veterans of Foreign Wars Convention held in [...]

News Releases: Sen Kerry Fights for Blinded Vets

Massachusetts offers a $2000 annual payment to permanently blind veterans, but the VA currently subtracts that annuity from their federal pension checks, denying blinded veterans their full and rightful benefits. Senator Kerry’s Veteran’s Pensions Protection Act will end that practice, providing veterans the full benefits they’ve earned.

Don’t Let the DEA Ban Recommending Medical Marijuana for Veterans

The Veterans Administration is taking advice from the DEA based on the federal government’s assertion that marijuana has no medicinal value. This especially tragic because of the widespread evidence that marijuana is a safe and effective treatment for post traumatic stress disorder which is all too common among our veterans.

Veterans-For-Change NEWS

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Urgent message for Vietnam Vets
Tens of thousands of Vietnam veterans with ischemic heart disease, Parkinson’s disease or B cell leukemia should file claims now with the Department of Veterans Affairs for disability compensation, not wait until VA publishes a regulation officially linking these diseases to wartime service.
Advocacy groups are urging the swift filing of claims [...]

LEVEL OF PAIN: THE FIFTH VITAL SIGN

In the United States pain has become known as the fifth vital sign. It is a common and required practice to evaluate that amount of pain a person is having, as well as documenting blood pressure, pulse, respirations, and termperature.

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 [...]

The Hidden Societal Benefits of Universal Healthcare

As an American living abroad I have seen and lived on both sides of the fence. Doing so has given me a perspective that allows me to critic from the outside looking in and here’s what I have found.

First, when living exclusively in the USA one cannot see how one’s culture affects one’s behavior. But when you step out, in my case, for many years and take a look back, it’s shocking!

Agent Orange Victims Aren’t Enough for Monsanto; Now GM Food

ShareDanang, Vietnam I have written about the evils of the company called Monsanto several times now.  For those of you who do not know, Monsanto was not only the largest producer of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War, but the components of Agent Orange that they produced consisted of the highest concentration of dioxin – [...]

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.

VA investigating security breach of veterans’ medical data

The Veterans Affairs Department’s inspector general has launched a criminal investigation into a physician assistant’s alleged downloading of veterans’ clinical data at its Atlanta medical center, sources have told Nextgov.

Secretary Seeks Fast Track to Process Claims

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced today an aggressive new initiative to solicit private-sector input on a proposed “fast track” Veterans’ claims process for service-connected presumptive illnesses due to Agent Orange exposure during the Vietnam War.

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 [...]

VA/DOD Expand Electronic Health Information Pilot

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VA/DOD Expand Electronic Health Information Pilot to Eastern Virginia
The Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense today announced the next phase of the Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER) Health Communities Program. This initiative improves care and services to our nation’s heroes by sharing health information using the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) developed [...]

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 [...]

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