Category Archives: Medical News

REAL LIFE DARWIN AWARDS

Posted on June 8, 2012 by asknod

This (or most of it) from members Paul and Leigh. Take 1 (one) Add 1 (one) Stir gently with ® Introduce .45 ACP round into boot being careful to miss steel toe (like that might have helped): Serve with a … Continue reading →

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HCV AND THYROID CANCERS

Posted on June 8, 2012 by asknod

Member Randy of Colorado fame has found something we all perhaps suspected but had no conclusive proof of. Our member Chase, who just received an new liver, Robert in southern California and of course Randy, all suffer from either  active … Continue reading →

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VIETNAM: THE SECRET AGENT (MOVIE)

Posted on May 23, 2012 by asknod

Here’s the link to watch this movie free until June 15th. It won the Special Jury Prize in 1984 at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah. If you were one of us who took third place at the RVN Olympics, … Continue reading →

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AGENT ORANGE ACTION GROUP RECORDS

Posted on May 23, 2012 by asknod

I was sent these records from one of our sotto voce members who would probably prefer to keep his head down and deny he did. We owe him a great debt. I have read extensive records on Project Checo-mostly dealing with our … Continue reading →

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AO COVERUP REVEALED

Posted on May 20, 2012 by asknod

With all the chicanery and classified secret ops we were running in SEA, it comes as no surprise that this coverup has been suppressed for so long. Our military often operated sotto voce without even a rudimentary oversight by Congress … Continue reading →

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CDC–Houston, We Have A Problem…

Posted on May 19, 2012 by asknod

Those funny guys down at the CDC are so perceptive it scares me. It’s as if they are prescient and realize a problem is brewing. Buried on page A-16 of my local Tacoma fishwrap in a small sidebar, they dutifully … Continue reading →

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VHA–Innovative Delays

Posted on May 17, 2012 by asknod

Imagine you’re member JM. You have some issues with a toasted knee in service in 2005. You’ve gone through all the vA hoopla to get in and be seen. You’re scheduled for a new MRI (back in March) for this … Continue reading →

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82% CURE IN NON-IFN ORAL HCV TRIALS

Posted on May 3, 2012 by asknod

This just in from Rocky Mountain High member Randy. This is the best news I have read in decades about the HCV “cure“. Finally, a way to put paid to this bug in spades. I don’t get my hopes up … Continue reading →

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VA–FREE MONEY-COME AND GET IT

Posted on April 30, 2012 by asknod

Member Randy sends us this post today. This was on the Veterans Report Website. Almost choked on dinner laughing at the naivete. Compensation for Vietnam Veterans Week of April 30, 2012 Nearly 2.6 million Americans who served in Vietnam are … Continue reading →

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VA–NO LIVER BX = NO HEP DAMAGE

Posted on April 30, 2012 by asknod

VA’s VHA, the medical arm, is always learning new tricks from their big brother, the VBA. If you don’t know something and make no effort to find out about it, then it doesn’t exist. It’s plausible, but not confirmed. Likewise, … Continue reading →

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