Tag: Veterans’ Health

So here is the latest information IT IS STILL TO BE DETERMINED How Much For Sure For Gulf War Illness Research Program at DOD-CDMRP For FY2011. IT never hurts to keep your voice and written words in front of your US Representatives and US Senators and for you to share those to as many elected officials in all the parties from local to State to National! And to get the news of that out in all ways possible!!! In a year with continuing resolutions, partisan battles, and omnibus bill that runs in the thousands of pages that throw everything into the soup when they cannt get the 13 funding bills through in any form of clean method. Well, lets us say it is not a clean recipe at that point, behind the scenes cooks can be known to help or hinder. Even when a number of us advocates and those on the hill ie staffers are doing everything to track and monitor. AS the old song goes Behind closed doors......You never can tell where a secret supporter, Santa, Cook can either spice up the recipe or make it go sour.

Gulf War Veterans another Diagnosed illness that we at VT have seen previously is Sarcoidosis. WE need to again step forward and make contact and tract our diagnosed illnesses, just like we have done in the pass with ALS, MS, Brain Cancer, Lung Cancer, Breast Cancer, Prostrate Cancer, Respiratory illnesses, Cardiac Illness, GI illnesses,Leischmanasis, Thyroid Dysfunctions, ME/CFS, Fibromylagia, Lyme Disease, and Diabetes to name a few. WE need to move forward and network again with national organizations to combine our strength and become more strong in numbers and find civilians that care!

Environmental factors associated with lung cancer are grossly underestimated. At the direction of Congress, the Institute of Medicine began studying the health impact of Gulf War exposure to depleted uranium, the residue left after nuclear-grade uranium is extracted. Like radon, which is the second leading cause of lung cancer, depleted uranium, used in weapons and armor shielding, can give off radioactive products of decay that can be carcinogenic. While the first Institute of Medicine report in 2000 found insufficient evidence of a definite link to lung cancer, the 2008 update report now assigns “high priority” to continued review of the link with lung cancer. The institute has also been reviewing the impact of exposure to fuel exhausts, smoke from burning oil wells, kerosene cookers and heaters in enclosed tents and other battlefield emissions. The “strongest finding” was the association of combustion products and lung cancer.

Update on Depleted Uranium Internationally. There has been work being done internationally while the media ignores the issue. Here is the news contained below that doesn't appear in mainstream media coverage. There is concern but medical research and peer reviewed journal articles seem to take decades, while veterans die without help, denial of compensation, denial of a proactive medical system to perform diagnostic tests in a full screening in a timely manner to catch health problems and to diagnose cancers at the earliest date possible and to monitor health status for other diseases related to respiratory and cardiac and neuroimmune problems.

That is the Christmas Gift of Caring enought to give your time weekly in an effort to educate and make it better. Letters and emails with introductory comments with an article that is educational. We provide the article and you play it forward and help us be heard!

So many questions and no answers! Why are the experts on DU not allowed to testify themselves? Why no hearings focusing on this continuing health problem? Where is COL, Dr Durakovic and why has he not been allowed to testify on the hill in DC? Why does every piece of legislation that has DU in it ignored on the hill in DC?

The Gulf War Illness Research Funds current information is that in the FY 2011 Omnibus DOD Appropriations currently under consideration there is funding for Gulf War Illness Research. This measures provides $8 million for the Peer Reviewed Gulf War Illness Research Program and $3.8 million for the ALS Therapy Development Institute Gulf War Research Project. This funding is directed to DOD CDMRP(Department of Defense Congressionally Direct Medical Research Program) .

Blood Donation and Chronic Fatigue and Gulf War Veterans/Illness in the National News Alert should also includes those Desort Storm Veterans/Gulf War Veterans 1990-91 who have chronic fatigue syndrome. This should be no surprise, when we returned home in 1991 we had a blood ban

So far these 34 Deaths in November 2010 and the one from October included we want to continue to remember them and their survivors. We have no data if any or all or a part of these were receiving Disability from the VA or were rated service connected. We do not know if the VA even has all of these recorded because some died for sure with no VA Rating, No VA C file, etc. or are never seen by the VA. This list presenting for honor today continues to number 35 . Well over one a day gulf war veterans 90-91 are dying. These are historical data that shows as Mr Perot said the largest post war morbidity/mortality to date.

How do Gulf War illness, Chronic Fatigue, Health of veterans, 911 Rescuers Health all connect? Lack of Leadership from US Legislators

Dave Sharpe had trouble leaving his Yorktown, Va., home until Cheyenne helped ease the former airman's anxiety. Gillian Laub for TIME In my work with...

New Gulf War Illness Research funded from 2010 appropriated/authorized funds. Review of four studies funded in Canada, Wisconsin, California, and Colorado.

Gulf war veterans visual needs are neglected.

Gulf war veterans with low-level exposure to GB/GF can have deleterious effects on brain structure and brain function more than decade later. YES it is real physical damage, now VA must move faster for Gulf War Veterans90-91.

"This potentially heightened lymphocyte and HPA axis responsiveness to IL-1 stimulation in the context of a mixed Th1:Th2 immune signature supports an autoimmune component in GWI etiology."

Depleted uranium and chemical toxicity at nuclear cell level in subtoxic concentrations

Six Gulf War Veterans 1990-1991 died in the first week of November. Their ages were 44, 48, 54(2), 61, and one age not known

Reflections on the Midterm Election in relation to Veteran Issues Veterans are you aware you lost a fighter for veterans' health issues?  No matter your...

Gulf War Veterans dying at an early age and the public does not seem to care. The mainstream media ignores veterans after the war. Impact in an election year?

BLACK ALERT FOR GULF WAR VETERANS 1990-91 If you do nothing else today and this week, I beg you to watch this film! Tears are running...

Questions Continue For Gulf War Veterans of 1990-91 A study on Depleted Uranium effects on offspring.  This study needs to be evaluated first of all...

Depleted Uranium Induces Renal Damage and Inhibits Synthesis of Vitamin D From China of all places we have research on depleted uranium effects.  This research...

Veteran Service Organizations (VSOs) have not notified veterans of their possible exposure to environmental hazards at 130 military installations on the EPA National Priority List (Superfund sites). There’s a critical need for the VSOs to exercise leadership by notifying their memberships of the 130 military bases on the NPL, including the Contaminants of Concern and health effects of exposure to contaminants.

News:  Our Canadian Brothers and Sisters Veterans Now Getting ALS Help! This writer has to pause and thank Major Michael Donnelly, his father,Tom Donnelly, a Vietnam Veteran...

Hydrocortisone responsiveness in Gulf War veterans with PTSD: Effects on ACTH, declarative memory hippocampal FDG uptake on PET. Yehuda R, Golier JA, Bierer LM, Mikhno...

RESEARCH ANSWERS FOR GULF WAR VETERANS Sarin Exposure and Late Onset Heart Damage Having tracked the early deaths of Gulf War Veterans in their 30-50's and...

News- Gulf War Veteran-Desert Storm Veteran Deaths-Never To Be Forgotten Recording of 8 more deaths of Desert Storm Veterans(2 from Sept).  Count for October stands...

Veterans Honor Desert Storm Veterans' Deaths I have the files for missing months and will be posting them in memory as I can catch up. ...

Vietnam and Gulf War Veteran Walking Point from Texas to DC Veterans What IS Going On? This was a story I saved from the end of...

My cohort from Canada notified me of a very important video today.  Canada Gulf War Veterans Under Friendly Fire  apparently when you speak out...

Gulf War Veterans Study Recent Developments re Civilians with CFS/ME and XMRV Research:  Why? Unanswered Questions Continue For Ill Gulf War Veterans As They Do...

Diagnosed Illnesses in Veterans Needs More Transparency As I compile this information from other sources, I hope that it keeps our readers updated and that...

  Exercise for Gulf War Veterans with Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain Below is the news article about this finding followed by the information taken concerning the study...

  Two positive studies but not a real surprise to the Gulf War Veterans who are ill. Sleep Breath. 2010 Aug 19. The effect of nasal...

Maybe a bit dated, not a year yet but should provocate some discussion with the Gulf War Veterans and our CFS civilians.  Interesting research...

I did attend the Salt Lake City conference on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia this past Saturday my recommendation has already been made to the...

News on Treatment Potential For XMRV,  Will It Help Ill Gulf War Veterans? News by means of a new abstract on treatment potentials for XMRV...

Movement on New Retrovirus is Rapid! Mystery Deepens on XMRV Now SAIC Shows Involvement From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access ...

Gulf War Illness newest study by Dr Haley is hot off the press.  More scientific proof of damage done to gulf war veterans.  The question...

The search for the real story on the scientific paper published on Monday in the PNAS continues.  I have to, must refer all to...

Discussion of PNAS article by scientist at WPI Institute in Nevada

A Review of CFS as it stands at this time.  Hopefully news of the XMRV or the new name possibily a human infectious gamma...