VA Releases Revised Gulf War Illness Reportþ

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Note: " For example, VA uses a new term, " medically unexplained chronic

symptoms, " replacing the obsolete term, " Gulf War syndrome. " " The term

MUPS and variations on that term are consistently found in the

psychiatric literature, more specifically the psychosomatic

literature.

VA Releases Revised Gulf War Illness Report

http://www.va.gov/opa/publications/2011_GWVI-TF_Report.pdf

In the past four years, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and

the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released several important reports

about the adverse health consequences suffered by many of our 700,000

service members who deployed to Southwest Asia during 1990 – 1991.

On Monday, VA released a new " Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses Task Force "

report, a revised version of VA's 2011 report with the same name.

VA's new report outlines the department's plan to address the

long-standing medical concerns of the 250,000 Veterans who remain ill

after serving overseas in Desert Shield and Desert Storm. VA's report

is available at:http://www.va.gov/opa/publications/2011_GWVI-TF_Report.pdf.

Two other significant scientific reports about 1990 – 1991 Gulf War

Veterans were released in the past few years, confirming veterans are

physically ill in large numbers:

VA's " Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illness "

(RAC). Published in November 2008, this report concluded more than

200,000 Veterans remain ill with physical conditions. The RAC blamed

the Veterans' symptoms on toxic exposures, such as to pesticides and

pyridostigmine (PB) pills taken to protect service members from

expected chemical attacks.

http://www.va.gov/RAC-GWVI/docs/Committee_Documents/GWIandHealthofGWVeterans_RAC\

-GWVIReport_2008.pdf

Institute of Medicine's (IOM), " Gulf War and Health, " Volume 8 was

published in April 2010, and it confirms that an estimated 250,000 of

our 1990 – 1991 Gulf War Veterans remain ill due to toxic exposures.

The IOM excluded psychological problems as the cause of Gulf War

Veterans' chronic multi-symptom

illness.http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2010/Gulf-War-and-Health-Volume-8-Health-Effe\

cts-of-Serving-in-the-Gulf-War.aspx

Under the law, the " Persian Gulf War " is defined as beginning on

August 2, 1990, and continuing through the present. While the term

" Gulf War Veterans " refers to all Veterans deployed in the past 21

years to Southwest Asia, VA's revised " Gulf War Veterans' Illness Task

Force " report covers only those Veterans deployed during the first

year of the war. VA also updated various VA web sites and terms

describing Gulf War Veterans.

For example, VA uses a new term, " medically unexplained chronic

symptoms, " replacing the obsolete term, " Gulf War syndrome. "

http://vetlawyers.com/vetblog/index.php/2012/03/va-releases-revised-gulf-war-ill\

ness-report/