Tag Archives: VA HCV Claims Help

VSOs–LET’S SEND IN A “REQUEST FOR RECONSIDERATION”

Have your dogs ever approached you en masse and demanded to go somewhere? Outside? For a ride in the car? Mine do. They don’t actually swarm like the crows in Al Hitchcock’s Birds. It’s far less organized, boisterous and simultaneously not as … Continue reading

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TACOMA NEWS TRIBUNE–THE END OF A 27-YEAR RELATIONSHIP

Can you imagine a mutually beneficial 27- year relationship with a business entity? It was almost a marriage. Every morning at o600 I would take the dogs out to the mailbox and collect the paper. It was always there on time … Continue reading

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VBA ANNOUNCES NEW REGIONAL OFFICE IN HO CHI MINH CITY

VA Spokesperson Shawn McDandy summoned an impromptu Press Conference this morning in the Blue Paper Room at 810 Varmint Ave NW to announce an expansion planned way back in the early eighties. Citing to Veterans Administration research on the subject, a large … Continue reading

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VSOs DON’T GET NO RESPECT

Veterans Service Organization representative Carl Jenkins emails me this New Year’s morning to inform me that I don’t know very much about the process. Mr. Jenkins identifies with the Veterans Of Foreign Wars service organization he represents but neglects to identify which … Continue reading

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INCOMING- END OF YEAR HADIT RADIO SHOW

Yeppers, A summary of a good year of helping Vets find their way through the VA maze will commence at 1400 Hrs on the East Coast and 1100 hrs on the Left Coast. Berta, the CUE queen of Hadit fame … Continue reading

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Praise for a few old hepatitis researchers

From the 1940s to 1960s, two types of hepatitis were known to researchers …infectious and serum.  A third type was unknown.  From the 1930’s and earlier, an assortment of names confused everyone.  Old names for HBV included serum hepatitis, homologous … Continue reading

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NIH: Post-blood transfusions = about 5 million HCV cases in 70’s and 80’s in U.S.

I have been waiting for a numerical estimation on HCV risk factor #1, blood transfusions, and found it in the above YouTube video.  If you read a lot of HCV reports on PUBMED, you know that Dr. Harvey J. Alter is … Continue reading

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1997 JETGUN STEERING GROUP LETTER

Thanks to Nurse Silvia Price, we now have the document that categorically sealed the future fate of the jetguns. Oddly, it still took a while longer to pry the jetguns from the cold dead hands of the US Military who … Continue reading

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BVA–WE DON’T NEED NO STINKIN’ BLOOD LABS

With the amazing blood tests for liver diseases in this day and age, buttressed by liver biopsy showing age of the infection, there is simply no reason on earth for a BVA decision like the one I describe here. The only … Continue reading

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CBS news report (12/1/15): most veterans denied HCV meds

We have all read news stories about the difficulty veterans with active chronic HCV infection are having getting treated with Sovaldi at the VA. Some articles express a more reality-based report on the service-connected HCV outbreak among Vietnam veterans.   … Continue reading

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