Gulf War Illness Clinical Trial Opportunity!

 

(91outcomes.com) - An encouraging Clinical Trial opportunity for treating Gulf War Illness. Location is in the Tampa Bay, Florida area (the Roskamp Institute in Sarasota, FL).

Opportunity for ill Gulf War Veterans!

 This excellent Gulf War Illness medical research team has an active opportunity for 1991 Gulf War veterans in the Boston, Miami, and San Francisco areas.  

The treatment-focused BBRAIN research network is headquartered at Boston University (BU).

Capitol Hill Forum on Gulf War Illness

Today, Veterans for Common Sense, along with 14 other veterans and military service organization co-hosts, held a Capitol Hill Forum on Gulf War Illness.    

The forum included Gulf War Illness researchers and clinicians funded by the Gulf War Illness CDMRP and included a Q&A period during the last 30 minutes.  

The recorded video of the event was made immediately available on the INIM YouTube channel, here: 

 

YouTube link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGONzZkVZyE

**ACTION ALERT**: 5 Minutes to Help Gulf War Illness Veterans

 

ACTION NEEDED:    Ask your two U.S. Senators to sign onto the "Baldwin 'Dear Colleague' Letter for Gulf War Illness treatment research funding" (FY 2022)  

READ BELOW for more details before calling. 

DEADLINE for sign on's:  SENATE:  Thursday, July 1, 2021

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(91outcomes.com - Updated June 8, 2021) - Key members of Congress have launched a renewed bipartisan initiative to continue the Gulf War Illness Research Program (GWIRP) to develop treatments for Gulf War Illness.  

Houston Chronicle Editorial: Yes, Gulf War Illness is real. Biden may finally give troops a shot at help.

David K. Winnett, Jr., of New Braunfels, listens as acupuncturist Michael Callaghan explains pain relief treatments, Monday, May 7, 2018. Winnett, 63, is a former Marine captain with 100 percent disability due to Gulf War Illness created by exposure to nerve gases and other toxic chemicals. Winnett, of New Braunfels, is a paraplegic after surgery related to a service-related back ailment.  JERRY LARA / San Antonio Express-News

We Are The Mighty: Researchers are making big progress in diagnosing Gulf War Syndrome

SOURCE: We Are the Mighty (March 3, 2021), "Researchers are making big progress in diagnosing Gulf War Syndrome": https://www.wearethemighty.com/intel/researchers-are-making-big-progress-in-diagnosing-gulf-war-syndrome/

CDMRP: Gulf War Illness - The Unwavering Mission of the GWIRP 30 Years after the Persian Gulf War

SOURCE:  Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program, March 1, 2021: https://cdmrp.army.mil/gwirp/research_highlights/21gwirpmission_highlight

 

NPR: 30 Years Of Gulf War Illness: How U.S. Troops' Health Was Compromised By Toxic Exposures In Kuwait

 SOURCE:  NPR's "Here & Now," February 23, 2021: https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2021/02/23/gulf-war-illness

Military.com: 30 Years After the Gulf War: Veterans and the Legacy of Toxic Wounds

 SOURCE:  Military.com (February 10, 2021), "30 Years After the Gulf War: Veterans and the Legacy of Toxic Wounds": https://www.military.com/daily-news/opinions/2021/02/10/30-years-after-gulf-war-veterans-and-legacy-of-toxic-wounds.html 

Gulf War lllness Research Participation During COVID: *Mission Critical*

Veterans Day Research Open House - Gulf War Illness, TBI, PTSD

The Roskamp Institute in Sarasota, FL is hosting a *virtual* open house event on Veterans Day, November 11, 2020 with a special invitation to veterans and members of the military. All are welcome to attend this event.

Highlighting the work at The Roskamp Institute and Clinic and showcasing research programs on:

Traumatic Brain Injury

Gulf War Illness

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Also featuring a live Q-and-A with our top researchers on these topics.

For details and to RSVP for the event: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_otczati0RgeR_9iGfuUPNA

Gulf War Veteran Survey Now Open

 

The Nova Southeastern survey study of Gulf War veterans is open for a limited time.  

If you have already taken it already, don't take it again. There are two parts.

Research Finds Gulf War Pesticide Associated with Immune Response in Gulf War Illness

 A permethrin metabolite is associated with immune responses in Gulf War Illness

(Sarasota, FL - Roskamp Institute) - Gulf War Illness remains difficult to diagnose and treat since exposure to Gulf War chemicals happened nearly 30 years ago.  Many studies now provide strong support that pesticide exposure during the Gulf War is one of the key factors in causing GWI. 

This recent work at the Roskamp Institute shows that the pesticides used during the 1991 Gulf War can cause the body to negatively react to its own proteins that play important roles in supporting bodily functions. 

Treatment Research Studies for 1990-91 Gulf War Veterans

(91outcomes.com - August 18, 2020)  There are several important resources for veterans of the 1990-91 Gulf War interested in participating in treatment research studies.

Individual Studies

There are numerous individual clinical trials and other studies around the U.S. that are actively recruiting veterans of the 1990-91 Gulf War.  Below are several resources to find them.

**Action Alert** Call on Your Senators to Continue Gulf War Treatment Research

(91outcomes.com) - The treatment-focused Gulf War Illness research program expires at the end of this fiscal year.  The goal is to continue to grow this critically important treatment development research for the nearly one-third of Gulf War veterans debilitated by Gulf War Illness.

It parallels the effort in the U.S. House that just concluded, led by Rep. Gregorio Sablan (D-NMI) and Rep. Jack Bergman, LtGen, USMC (Ret.) (R-Mich.) with 108 bipartisan cosigners including the leadership and many members of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee.

Help Grow Gulf War Illness Treatment Research

(91outcomes.com) - The treatment-focused Gulf War Illness research program expires at the end of this fiscal year.  The goal is to continue to grow this critically important treatment development research for the nearly one-third of Gulf War veterans debilitated by Gulf War Illness.

Veterans with Gulf War Illness have widespread brain inflammation, new study shows

SOURCE:  https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/02/17/veterans-with-gulf-war-syndrome-have-widespread-brain-inflammation-new-study-shows/

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ARCHIVED ARTICLE:

By ALEXI COHAN | alexi.cohan@bostonherald.com | Boston Herald

PUBLISHED: February 17, 2020 at 7:40 p.m. | UPDATED: February 17, 2020 at 8:14 p.m.

Veterans with Gulf War Syndrome have 

widespread brain inflammation, new study

shows

BOSTON, MA. – SEPTEMBER 20: Mass. General Hospital , September 20, 2018 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Staff Photo By Stuart Cahill/Boston Herald) 

By ALEXI COHAN | alexi.cohan@bostonherald.com | Boston Herald

PUBLISHED: February 17, 2020 at 7:40 p.m. | UPDATED: February 17, 2020 at 8:14 p.m.

Veterans who fought against Iraq in the Gulf War and now battle debilitating symptoms of what’s been called Gulf War Syndrome have widespread inflammation in the brain, researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital confirmed for the first time.

“We are documenting objective neurochemical changes in the brains of these people which is a way to validate their complaints,”

Highlights of Recent Gulf War Illness Research Findings

Highlights of GWIRP 2019-20 Peer-Reviewed Published Findings

Updated February 12, 2020

New results from a GWIRP-funded brain-imaging study in Boston provide the first direct evidence of neuroinflammation in veterans with GWI.  Based on early GWIRP-funded study results, a focus on identifying and confirming or denying the presence of persistent neuroinflammation in GWI has been a key GWIRP goal.  These results provide the first objective evidence confirming the relevance of neuroinflammation in GWI and that treatments should indeed be targeted at countering this neuroinflammation.[1]

Another key area of GWIRP-funded research has been related to role of the gut-brain axis in GWI.  A GWIRP-funded study also from Boston and also just published assessed the relationships between GWI, GI symptoms, gut microbiome and inflammatory markers in GWV from the Boston Gulf War Illness Consortium (GWIC).  Results showed

5 Questions about Presumptions for Gulf War and Undiagnosed Illnesses

New drug GVT progresses in research aimed at helping Gulf War Illness and other neurodegenerative diseases

(91outcomes.com - August 17, 2019) - A small pharmaceutical company has taken positive findings from a Gulf War Illness (GWI) treatment research pilot study and now working on the next steps to test it to verify that it may indeed help alleviate Gulf War Illness symptoms.

The original work on this formulation was funded through a Fiscal Year 2013 treatment study by the treatment-focused, veteran-driven Gulf War Illness Research Program (GWIRP) funded by Congress at the request of ill Gulf War veteran advocates and within the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP).