Subject: Va Staff Manipulation Of Institute Of Medicine Reports

[allan]

Below is only a small reprint from the web site. All Gulf war veterans, VSOs, NSO’s and Advocates need to read it, and article below by Denise Nichols

http://www.veteranstoday.com/downloads/09binnsmemo.pdf

FROM: James Binns, Chairman, Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans

Illnesses

SUBJECT: VA staff manipulation of Institute of Medicine reports

DATE: February 9, 2009

In its 452-page report released in November the Congressionally-mandated Research Advisory

Committee on Gulf War Veterans Illnesses concluded that scientific research consistently

indicates that Gulf War illness is real, the result of toxic exposures during the 1991 war, and

affects at least 175,000 veterans -- one in four of those who served. The report is available from

the Committee scientific staff office at the Boston University School of Public Health at

rac@bu.edu and online at www.va.gov/rac-gwvi.

The report observes that these health problems have been “denied and trivialized” for seventeen

years. This process has included VA staff manipulation of Institute of Medicine (IOM) reports

relied upon by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs in determining ill veterans’ benefits. [Report,

pp. 53-55] Because of the stature of the IOM, these reports have also misled researchers,

lawmakers, physicians, and the public regarding the health problems of Gulf War veterans.

VA subsequently announced that it was referring the Research Advisory Committee report to the

IOM. This new IOM report was requested before the new Administration took office, and VA

staff gave the IOM committee its charge on January 28.

The Institute of Medicine, a branch of the National Academy of Sciences, is universally

respected as the high court of American medical science. Government compromise of its

processes is a breach of public trust that would have been unthinkable under traditional ethical

standards. It is of great importance that this matter be thoroughly investigated and reformed, on

both the government and Institute sides. The IOM Gulf War reports should then be re-done in

accordance with the law, as recommended by the Research Advisory Committee [Report, p. 57].

This memorandum will consider VA staff’s interaction with the Institute of Medicine in the

preparation of the Gulf War reports. It will demonstrate:

http://www.veteranstoday.com/article5994.html

AN OPEN LETTER TO All Desert Storm Veterans, Gulf War Veterans, Vietnam Veterans, Family Members, Veteran Supporters

by Denise Nichols

Read this VA Staff Manipulation of Institute of Medicine Report closely! It has been 18 years and Desert Storm veterans ill from their service in the gulf war 90-91 wonder why the VA has not been more proactive, well I believe these are very hard and documented facts!

Delay, Denial, Avoidance.

It will only stop when we all raise our voices!

This means take this document and write a brief letter to your Elected Representative, Senators, House VA Committee, Senate VA Committee and

ASK CLEARLY FOR A SENATE AND HOUSE VA COMMITTEES JOINT HEARING NOW!

Panel 1: Should be the RAC GWI Committee

Panel 2: Should be each and everyone of the Gulf War Veteran Organizations that have fought for you since day1

NGWRC--Jim Bunker

AGWVA- Gail Reed

DSJF-Paul Lyons

Veterans for Common Sense- Paul Sullivan

National Vietnam and Gulf War Veterans Coalition- Denise Nichols

Veterans of Modern Warfare- Don Overton

Wisconsin Veterans State Deptartment of Veterans- Anthony Hardy

Panel 3 Individual Gulf War Veterans ie Desert Storm Veterans or their Family Member if Desert Storm Veteran is now dead. and

Panel 4

most important the Army Preventative Medical Team that was there in theater! To finally lay out what happenned in theater!

It has been 18 years and the VA is still not taking care of the Desert Storm Veterans!

They ship you off and give you psychological drugs to keep you quiet. Does that help your body's response to all the exposures in theater?

You need the best diagnostic testing, regular screening for cancers, neuromuscular diseases, cardiac screening, checked for Autoimmune Disorders, etc.

You need detoxification, supplementation programs that Integrative Medicine and ACAM Physicians and Environmental Medicine Doctors on Civilian side know about!

You need to be tested for all the viral reactivation and that needs to be treated!

AS an officer nurse I was there to care for each of you and we did the best we could but we were not told the truth either as your medical officers! I have been involved since 1992 digging for the truth, going door to door on the hill in DC giving briefings, getting cosponsors on legistation, and testifying. WE have been into every rat maze of denial in DC and we can not wait any longer! So please write your letters!

IT is time for Joint hearings on the Hill in DC for Desert Storm Veterans!

"Keep on, Keepin' on"

Dan Cedusky, Champaign IL "Colonel Dan"

See my web site at:

http://www.angelfire.com/il2/VeteranIssues/

[Berta]

I know of no one who has done more than Denise to help GWVs regarding this issue.She has tried to get toxins and other issues recognized vy the VA as caused due to GW service.

She has been absolutely relentless. This news is the biggest break GWVs are ever going to get.

I hope every Gulf War vet will get on the bandwagon here because if they are not disabled currently due to GW they might get disabled from its effects at some future time.

We dont seem to get a lot of GW vets here at hadit because they cannot fit into the GWS enough to even file a claim.

Manipulation of a medical report?

VA does that all the time.

This stunning news really does not surprise me at all.

It is one more travesty perpetrated against you all and will take action before it is resolved.

[Testvet]

This was my response sent to the VA for inclusion in written testimony:

Military & Veterans: Politics for the deserving: VA staff manipulation of Institute of Medicine reports

IT is time for Joint hearings on the Hill in DC for Desert Storm Veterans!

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I have written quite extensively about the IOM reports on Sarin Exposure that was done by William Page PHD in March 2003. The report was funded by DOD and was set to parameters that DOD set, they prevented an open assessment of all available chemical weapons data.

Primarily they ignored a report by the national Institute of Health done in 1994 on chemical weapon exposure, low level exposures http://www.ehponline.org/members/1994/102-1/munro-full.html titled Toxicity of the Organophosphate Chemical Warfare Agents GA, GB, and VX: Implications for Public Protection and they also ignored this report on long term health effects of chemical weapon exposure that definitely shows many medical problems linked to exposures on page 40 http://www.sipri.org/contents/cbwarfare/Pu.../cw-delayed.pdf

A psychiatric delayed-effect syndrome was found as a result of systematic investigations

on former members of CW production and testing stations for the Wehrmacht. In

terms of frequency, two groups of symptoms can be distinguished–each consisting of

four separate symptoms or signs.

(1) The great majority of persons examined showed:

(a) persistently lowered vitality accompanied by marked diminution in drive;

(B) defective autonomic regulation leading to cephalalgia, gastrointestinal and

cardiovascular symptoms, and premature decline in libido and potency;

© intolerance symptoms (alcohol, nicotine, medicines);

(d) impression of premature aging.

(2) Further, one or more symptoms of the second group were found:

(a) depressive or subdepressive disorders of vital functions;

(B) cerebral vegetative (syncopal) attacks;

© slight or moderate amnestic and demential defects;

(d) slight organoneurological defects (predominantly microsymptoms and singular

signs of extrapyramidal character).

Our results are a contribution to the general question of psychopathological delayed

and permanent lesions caused by industrial poisoning. On the basis of our studies of

the etiologically different manifestations of toxication, the possibility of a relatively

uniform–though equally unspecific–cerebro-organic delayed effect syndrome is conceivable

Many of the above symptoms are the illness many people call Gulf War Illness these men were the Wermacht soldiers of Germanys WW2 chemical weapons program

I am one of the soldiers used in the control group for the march 2003 Sarin report, I am Med Vol 6778A of the 7120 enlisted men and women used at Edgewood Arsenal from 1955 thru 1975 in the Army's chemical weapons and drug experiments.

These veterans are now suing the CIA, DOD and the Army for neglecting them and denying them medical care and recognition for the dangerous assignment

http://edgewoodtestvets.org/

What This Case Is About

Plaintiffs seek declaratory and injunctive relief only – no monetary damages – and Plaintiffs seek redress for 25 years of diabolical experiments followed by over 30 years of neglect, including:

the use of troops to test nerve gas, psychochemicals, and thousands of other toxic chemical or biological substances and perhaps most gruesomely, the insertion of septal implants in the brains of subjects in a ghastly series of mind control experiments that went awry;

the failures to secure informed consent and other widespread failures to follow the precepts of U.S. and international law regarding the use of human subjects, including the 1953 Wilson Directive and the Nuremberg Code;

an almost fanatical refusal to satisfy their legal and moral obligations to locate the victims of their gruesome experiments or to provide health care or compensation to them;

the deliberate destruction of evidence and files documenting their illegal actions, actions which were punctuated by fraud, deception, and a callous disregard for the value of human life.

The Complaint asks the Court to determine that Defendants’ actions were illegal and that Defendants have a duty to notify all victims and to provide them with health care going forward.

Bottom Line the truth is it's the money, if they have to service connect all of these problems, the costs will run into the billions of dollars, it's that simple.

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Denise Nichols has given extensively of her time and own funds to advocate on the behalf of Gulf War Veterans

Edited April 25, 2009 by Pete53

[Pete53]

Test:

I turned off the emoticons cause it caused a smilye when you use B and )

[Testvet]

thanks Pete I never noticed it lol

[RetiredVet]

thanks Pete I never noticed it lol

We, the veteran's, family member's, relative's and any others that want to protest on our behalf need to arrange protests at all VA regional office's or as many as we can get. We all need to protest the Veteran's Benefit's Administration who do everything they can to keep veteran's from getting what they should get including adequate medical care. Yes they also oversee what we get in medical care.

Veteran organization's are getting nowhere with giving speeches at senate or house hearings.

We need a lot more action instead of speeches. A million veteran march on the VA's headquarters in D.C. would be great. Then continuous protests at VA regional offices.

24.5 million veteran's or more are affected. We should be able to get at least one million. Have too many veteran's become cowards under the VA? Too afraid to speak out, yet were willing to die for that right?

The U.S. Census Bureau offers the following facts about U.S. veterans in 2005:

24.5 million The number of military veterans in the United States. 1.7 million The number of veterans who are women.

Why are veteran's afraid of the government that sent them in harms way, why are they afraid of the VA, why are they afraid to stand up for their rights now? Fight for the person that died beside you or lost a limb or just served with you. Fight for yourself. Protest for what is right.

Tell the veteran organizations you want organized marches. If they do not want this then do not belong to that organization. They all make millions off of veteran's while the vet suffers. These organization's are playing their own political game with veteran's lives and their families lives.

It is time for veteran's to take their own stand. Had to have my wife type this for me.

Edited April 25, 2009 by RetiredVet

[Berta]

"It is time for veteran's to take their own stand."

I agree-

thinking vets will unite and march on DC has never happened-since WWII

Disabled veterans often could not do this due to their didsabilities and too many are forced into poverty waiting for their claims to be resolved.

I have been to DC many times and hotel rooms and food are not cheap.

Every vet and widow has to-"take their own stand"

by writing to the veterans committees, and to their Congressmen/women and Senators with their own personal account (supported by evidence)of how the VA has affected their lives in a negative way.

Maybe Steppenwolf by now ( a member here with postings below about changing the system)could give you an update as to where he is at- in protesting against the VA.

Denise Nichols had some help and support from GW vets - but I bet almost 99% of the YEARS and YEARS of work she has accomplished-

letters ,phone calls,trips to DC and testimony to H VAC etc,emails to vet sites ,etc etc etc has been primary accomplished by and paid for by

Denise Nichols herself.