Tag Archives: HCVETS

TRANSJUGULAR LIVER BIOPSY

Sounds like something out of a Dracula movie. On Tuesday, I went in for the Earl Schieb $99.95 standard core needle biopsy and discovered that my blood is stuck on stupid. After abstaining from Coumadin blood thinner for a week, my INR … Continue reading

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BVA–ANOTHER TIM POE COMES TO LIGHT

FROM THE JOHN WAYNE  MEMORIAL VARO IN LA This is becoming distressingly familiar as Vets grow old and die. The spouse, based on what the Vet has told her, decides to file for the panoply of Agent Orange presumptives and … Continue reading

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BVA– NO HCV IN SERVICE/ GONORRHEA? YOU DIDN’T ASK US TO LOOK AT IT

Brilliant work on the AMLeg’s part. Here  Johnny Rebel files for hep and claims he had it in service. The records are blank. He also filed for “infertility”  due to a case of the clap in Korea. AMLEG fails to … Continue reading

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BVA–VA “INSERTS” NEXUS INTO DBQ

From the David Koresh Memorial VARO in Whacko Yessirree, Bob. You heard it here. When the very first DBQ was put out for use in late 2011, I warned that it had no signature block for a nexus. In no … Continue reading

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BVA–HAV IN 1973, NOT HBV OR HCV

Here’s one of those brilliant medical A=C, B=C therefore A≠D. Huh? You can follow the tortured logic of a Hepatitis Australian Antigens Test in 1973 being positive. Simple. He had HBV in service documented by being HAA positive. He claims … Continue reading

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2013 BVA DECISIONS ARE OUT

Like the post says, it’s springtime and that’s about how long it takes to start getting these 2013 hepatitis decisions airborne. Last year was an anomaly. It took until August or so to get the site operational. Must have been early Sequestration … Continue reading

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RADIO SHOWS THIS WEEK

Rick Townsend Of Stardust Radio has me on to discuss the Gilead Sciences  HCV drug Sofosbuvir (name tentative) or the Trial name GS 7944. That’s Stardust Radio and Rick’s Firebase Adrian show on Sunday at 7 PM EDT or 4 … Continue reading

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Tattooing and HCV: A study that is actually useful

Although I can only access the abstract, this study in Hepatology (1/13) was reported by Fox News and other news outlets.  The researchers excluded IDUs and those who had blood-transfusions (pre-1992).  The CDC writes,”Fritz Francois, MD, a researcher from New York University Langone … Continue reading

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VBMS– WHAT’S NEXT?

As we all know from the propaganda fliers VA dropped over us recently, VBMS is getting ready to make a big difference in the backlog. This expected windfall is programmed in to seize the high ground and eliminate  Global Warming by going … Continue reading

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When HCV kills really fast

I came across a study* that was a shocker.  In 1994, 30 UK patients with  primary immune deficiencies received a batch of HCV-contaminated human immunoglobulin (that had been screened) and became infected with acute hepatitis. Of these 30, four developed … Continue reading

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