Tag Archives: Helping Veterans

HCV infection and veterans’ oral health

Posted on July 17, 2014 by Laura

According to a 2012 report published for dentists by the Australasian Society for HIV Medicine, which also covers hepatitis, health problems associated with HCV are numerous. The report, Dental and Orofacial Health and Hepatitis C contains a few graphic images including … Continue reading →

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VA-WE WANT OUR SPLENDID ISOLATION BACK

Posted on July 16, 2014 by asknod

We are reaching the point of absurdity. Hardly a day passes that another VA upper-level manager manages to leave incriminating evidence lying around to be found. That a member of Congress would think reading that evidence of perfidy a horrible intrusion on the … Continue reading →

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HCV patients: Drink coffee, not tea, to slow liver disease progression

Posted on July 16, 2014 by Laura

A large well- funded study,  Coffee Intake, is Associated with Lower Rates of Liver Disease Progression in Chronic Hepatitis C, was first published in Hepatology (2009) and is now free to read.  The Discussion section summarizes the good news:  This prospective study … Continue reading →

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FACIAL INPUT

Posted on July 13, 2014 by asknod

As this was a slow week due to everyones’ being on vacation, I apologize for the dearth of really good humor. The “remove child first” is the only one worthy of reproduction.

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PTSD AND FIREWORKS

Posted on July 10, 2014 by asknod

I was contacted numerous times during the leadup to July 4th by some who suffer PTSD and asked-almost begged- to write an article about the negative effects of loud explosions on those with PTSD. The folks who wished me to … Continue reading →

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eBENEFITS–SO SIMPLE A CAVEMAN CAN DO IT

Posted on July 4, 2014 by asknod

Remember USB Allison “in Wonderland” Hickey’s famous rejoinder to Congress back in 2013? Paraphrased, it could be summed up thusly: “As simple as filing taxes online and a way to whittle down the claims backlog“. Whew, doggies.  Considering the claims backlog just hit two … Continue reading →

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VASEC–PLEASE ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE MYSELF

Posted on July 3, 2014 by asknod

I have refrained from writing about the shakeup at 810 Vermin Ave. NW in hopes of reading them bones more closely. Sure enough, the rats are jumping ship with the sage premonition that the USS Veterans Affairs is in mortal … Continue reading →

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BVA–THE LOUISVILLE TWO STEP

Posted on June 28, 2014 by asknod

The Louisville Two-step: Step One: Get VSO and sign POA over. Step two: Step into street in front of VA Examiner and get prepared to be mowed down. This is so predictable. Johnny Rebel here could have been in high cotton … Continue reading →

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BVA–IN SEARCH OF NEGATIVE EVIDENCE

Posted on June 28, 2014 by asknod

This is a great decision with enormous parameters. It illustrates many things that are judicially useful. To begin with, it is a jetgun-based claim and, as such, is of immense interest to the Veteran population who served between 1962 and … Continue reading →

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MORE FACEPLACE

Posted on June 27, 2014 by asknod

A veritable avalanche of Face implants arrived after the last post. I share with you herewith:     I had a desert tortoise I brought up from California when I moved here in April 1974. His name was Phillip Morris … Continue reading →

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