Fw: Subject Reference: Government to increase research funds for Gulf War illnesse

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I send you these 'Gulf War' reports because they run rather paralle to our illnesses, for similar reasons.

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Subject: Subject Reference: Government to increase research funds for Gulf War illnesse

Government to increase research funds for Gulf War illnesses WASHINGTON (November 2, 2002 )- The Department of Veterans Affairs' plan to sharply increase funding for research into Gulf War illnesses marks a turning point in how the government perceives the problem, the leader of a veterans group said Friday. "We've had to fight tooth and nail to convince people that Gulf War illness was more than stress," said Steve of the National Gulf War Resource Center, an umbrella group of 60 veterans organizations. The department announced this week it would make up to $20 million available for research in 2004. That figure is more than double the amount spent by the department in any previous year, it said. By comparison, the VA spent $8.4 million in 2001 and $3.7 million in 2002. No figures were available for 2003. The announcement follows a VA advisory panel's report in June highlighting areas that needed more research, including a connection between the veterans' syndromes and neurological problems. A VA spokesman, Jim Benson, said he doesn't view the funding as a change of direction for the department, noting that more than 200 research projects have already been funded by the VA and other agencies. "It's hard to say we just got the message because we've been spending a lot of time, a lot of money and a lot of effort looking for a cause, and have been treating Gulf veterans the whole time," he said. Tens of thousands of veterans of the Persian Gulf War have suffered from a variety of illnesses they believe were linked to their service. Symptoms have included chronic fatigue, diarrhea, migraines, dizziness and loss of balance. Many scientists have blamed stress, but veterans believe it is more likely they were exposed to a toxin in the Gulf. In one example, they point to the 101,000 soldiers who the Pentagon says were exposed to deadly gases when U.S. combat engineers blew up a weapons depot in Khamisiyah, in southern Iraq, in 1991. Kilpatrick, deputy director of the Pentagon's Deployment Health Support Directorate, said new research might show how the physical and emotional stress of a wartime deployment might make soldiers more vulnerable to dangers in the environment. The research may have added importance with the United States considering military action against Iraq, which it accuses of developing chemical and biological weapons. "For any of today or tomorrow's deployments, we are very focused on the protection of health of those deployed," Kilpatrick said. "We recognize that people are going to be in dangerous situations, we recognize that there are going to be tremendous opportunities for exposure to all kinds of chemical or biological (substances)."

gigi* Dr. Haley, from UT Southwest proved the Gulf War individuals wereextremely ill from toxic chemicals, an exhibited neurological damage fromthem. The FDA refused his brilliant study's, as they've done with theSilicone peer reviewed study's. And the testimony's of physician's andscientists who could prove breast implants were the causation of our illness. Increase it for the Vietnam Veterans, and appropriate the funds to study silicone toxically poisoned individuals too. Including the cool miners, who've been toxically poisoned from silica. Also millions of children, who've become toxically poisoned un necessarily for greed and the asbestos individuals need funds also. We've all become extremely ill from toxic chemicals, that must be banned through out the entire world. Dow, takes their toxic products to third world country's, an it returns to us in the air water, etc.We can accomplish it too, working together ill benefit us all greatly, andprove the truth about silicone medical devices. http://www.nandotimes.com/healthscience/story/602939p-4665355c.html

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