Tag: Gulf War illness

Twenty Years After Operation Desert Storm, Veterans are Dying Early in Life

Gulf War Veteran dies suddenly. Gulf War Veteran leader, 501st Ordnance Battalion, USArmy, 44, Massachusetts Flags at half staff for vet, father of 4

This indeed is an important area to consider for Gulf War Veterans 1990-91 since exposures to chemicals can cause nerve damage that might exhibit as tinnitus. As the nerve damage continues, hearing loss may also occur. How many Gulf War Veterans 1990-91 have experienced hearing loss? This is your chance Gulf War Veterans with Gulf War illness to provide and discuss this specific issue.

Veterans of Operation Desert Storm 1990-91 Gulf War still await timely health care and compensation.

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

Gulf War Illness Research Funding is on the line. Veterans, Advocates, Family members, health care providers, friends of veterans truly need to wake up and write emails to their senators and representatives on the hill in DC right now this moment and all weekend. The Battle is on the US HOUSE AND SENATE ALL NEXT WEEK! IT STARTS MONDAY AGAIN! IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO GET ACROSS: The level received last year for DOD CDMRP GULF WAR ILLNESS RESEARCH(Department of Defense Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program) was 8 million for FY10, the best we are able to discern at this time is that the continuing resolution and other hill sources seem to indicate that is again what might come out in the final wash.

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

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

Expanding Gulf War Presumptives Would Be Another Victory for VA Sec. Shinseki and President Obama over the Likes of Sens Webb and Burr Via 91Outcomes Federal Register: Department of...

Federal Registry notice by VA on gulf war illness symptom clarification request feedback by December 17

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

Research update on surgical intervention for MS. Many gulf war veterans suffer from MS or MS like symptoms.

 - Keeping up the pressure -  By Lisa Chedekel via 91Outcomes (Boston, Mass. – Boston University) -- Some of the wounds of war are invisible to...

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...

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. ...

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

Altered Genetic Makeup May Be Linked To Irritable Bowel Syndrome By Donna Parker • Sep 23rd, 2010 • An irregular genetic strand may increase your risk...

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...

Gulf War agents trigger discrete transcriptional changes in human neuronal cells  Authors: G. C. Kayihana; M. Wooda; B. Mouzona; S. Fergusona; E. Margenthalera; V. Mathuraa;...

  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...