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"Department of veterans Affairs and the United States military have done for years. Consequently, under Medicare Part D taxpayers pay 58% more for drugs, on average, than the veterans Administration, according to a study by Families USA. Families USA found, for example, that a year's supply of 200 milligram Celebrex caplets under Medicare Part D is $946.44, compared to the veterans Administration price of $632.09, and a year's supply of 20 milligram Zocor tablets under Medicare Part D is $1,485.96, compared to the veterans Administration price of $127.44." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.)

"Rates of this illness were approximately three times higher in these veterans than in veterans who never left the United States, and the incidence of illness was also higher in female than in male vets. The mini-epidemic onset of CFS in these veterans suggests that something about serving in the Gulf triggered the illness. The nature of that trigger remains a research question even today." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"Without exception, veterans who went onto the vitamin program recovered fully or enough so that they were pleased with their new health. After my experience with the veterans and after reading the literature, I concluded that 1 year in the camps had aged the veterans by 4 years. A prisoner in camp 4 years would come back having aged the equivalent of 16 years. Other investigators had come to a similar conclusion. By this time I was familiar with the concept of vitamin dependency." - Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH, Naturopathic Nutrition: A Guide to Nutrient-rich Food & Nutritional Supplements for Optimum Health (Get the book.)

"Veterans Administration price of $127.44.54 Families USA also found that Medicare pays 60% more than the veterans Administration for the top 20 best-selling drugs.55 Because the drug industry is comprised of monopoly sellers of specific drugs, the prescription drug bill enables those monopolies to set the price the government must pay, in effect enabling the pharmaceutical industry to hold the nation hostage by depleting the U.S. Treasury at its will." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.)

"I do a lot of work with veterans. About two years ago, a fifty-five-year-old veteran of the Vietnam War came to my office seeking help with his symptoms associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), a problem that affects a large number of war veterans involving the subconscious and conscious repetition of trauma and a heightened vulnerability to stress of any kind." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"Kilmer McCully, chief of pathology and laboratory medicine service in the Boston veterans Administration Health Care System, is the father of the homocysteine theory, a revolutionary explanation of how arterial disease develops. "In the production of plaques in the artery wall, it is well known that cholesterol becomes damaged by oxidation," McCully says. "But homocysteine is a potent catalyst for this oxidation reaction and orchestrates all the things in the arterial wall that produce the plaque." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"After my experience with the veterans and after reading the literature, I concluded that 1 year in the camps had aged the veterans by 4 years. A prisoner in camp 4 years would come back having aged the equivalent of 16 years. Other investigators had come to a similar conclusion. By this time I was familiar with the concept of vitamin dependency." - Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH, Naturopathic Nutrition: A Guide to Nutrient-rich Food & Nutritional Supplements for Optimum Health (Get the book.)

"The American Legion has established an influential political position, gaining support in Congress and the federal executive branch for veterans' interests; its efforts contributed to the creation of the veterans Administration, which provides medical services and other benefits to veterans and their families. Traditionally conservative, the American Legion promotes patriotism and a strong military defense. (See also veterans of Foreign Wars.) amicus curiae (uh-mee-kuhs kyoor-ee-eye) See friend of the court." - E. D. Hirsch, Joseph F. Kett, James Trefil, The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Get the book.)

"The "shell shock" of the survivors of World War I led to some novel treatments (some innovative and compassionate, others as horrific as the war itself), as well as the rise of the "mental hygiene" movement of the 1920s and 1930s; the experience of Vietnam veterans led direcdy to the entry of posttraumatic stress disorder into the revised psychiatric diagnostic manual in 1980; and a considerable amount of the news coverage of the Iraq War has addressed the (deteriorating) mental status of the troops, with calls for more assessment, treatment, and general vigilance for their fragile psyches." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "And CNN reports in 2007 that nearly a third of veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan come home with psychiatric or psychosocial ills. (Posttraumatic stress disorder led the way, accounting for almost half of all diagnoses, followed by anxiety, adjustment disorders, depression, and substance abuse disorders.)28 In the aftermath of each of those events, there has been extensive media coverage, discussion, and debate about the mental health of the victims." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"A number of my patients are veterans of the first Persian Gulf war, and many of them experience severe, medically unexplained fatigue. Many of these vets believe they got sick due to some exposure they experienced while on military duty, or perhaps to a vaccination they had to have for their military service. Although there is little evidence to support their beliefs, I don't tell them they are wrong, because we may never really know what triggered their illness." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"The ten thousand infantry and five thousand cavalry included veterans of the Battle of Dara such as Aigan and his Huns, and Pharas and his Herulians, and a number of other lieutenants, including Dorotheus and Solomon, the latter a eunuch. Perhaps most surprisingly, the army also included the general's wife, Antonina. Had she lived in any time other than that dominated by the figure of Theodora, Antonina would surely qualify as the most fascinating and formidable woman of her day." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"The American Legion has established an influential political position, gaining support in Congress and the federal executive branch for veterans' interests; its efforts contributed to the creation of the veterans Administration, which provides medical services and other benefits to veterans and their families. Traditionally conservative, the American Legion promotes patriotism and a strong military defense. (See also veterans of Foreign Wars.) amicus curiae (uh-mee-kuhs kyoor-ee-eye) See friend of the court." - James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, and E. D. Hirsch, The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Get the book.)

"In her 1989 best-selling book Trauma and Recovery, the activist psychiatrist Judith Lewis Herman made the links explicit: [This] is a book about commonalities: between rape survivors and combat veterans, between battered women and political prisoners, between the survivors of vast concentration camps created by tyrants who rule nations and the survivors of small, hidden concentration camps created by tyrants who rule their homes." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"The American Legion has established an influential political position, gaining support in Congress and the federal executive branch for veterans' interests; its efforts contributed to the creation of the veterans Administration, which provides medical services and other benefits to veterans and their families. Traditionally conservative, the American Legion promotes patriotism and a strong military defense. (See also veterans of Foreign Wars.) amicus curiae (uh-MEE-kuhs KYOOR-ee-eye) See friend of the court." - E. D. Hirsch, The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy (Get the book.)

"The mini-epidemic onset of CFS in these veterans suggests that something about serving in the Gulf triggered the illness. The nature of that trigger remains a research question even today. Widespread Pain, Bodily Tenderness, and Fibromyalgia Unlike people whose fatigue begins with flulike symptoms and who often are sent to doctors specializing in infectious diseases, those reporting a slow progression of bodywide pain usually wind up seeing doctors who specialize in rheumatic diseases, problems related to the ligaments or joints." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"The American Legion has established an influential political position, gaining support in Congress and the federal executive branch for veterans' interests; its efforts contributed to the creation of the veterans Administration, which provides medical services and other benefits to veterans and their families. Traditionally conservative, the American Legion promotes patriotism and a strong military defense. (See also veterans of Foreign Wars.) amicus curiae (uh-mee-kuhs kyoor-ee-eye) See friend of the court." - James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, and E. D. Hirsch, The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Get the book.)

"Expenditures for prescription drugs have been increasing seven times faster than the rate of inflation, but the 2003 legislation specifically prohibits the federal government from using its purchasing power to negotiate prices with drug makers, as is done successfully by the veterans Health Administration and Defense Department (and by Canada and the European countries—which is why their drug prices are so much lower than those in the United States). The U.S." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"On the inverse side, veterans of the Vietnam and Gulf wars who have suffered from trauma have reduced hippocampi. It has been proven that the release of the hormone Cortisol, under stress, literally kills cells in the hippocampus.) All of this goes to show that Shakespeare wasn't so far off the mark when he wrote in Hamlet: "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"The best source of information on hormones is Marc Blackman at the Washington, D.C., veterans Affairs Medical Center, or Mitchell Harman at the Kronos Longevity Research Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. They've done the most sophisticated studies and probably the best ones we presently have on the hormone story. ARE VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTS HELPFUL? Robert Butler: Of course you should maintain your basic daily vitamin requirements. But you shouldn't get carried away either." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"The American Legion has established an influential political position, gaining support in Congress and the federal executive branch for veterans' interests; its efforts contributed to the creation of the veterans Administration, which provides medical services and other benefits to veterans and their families. Traditionally conservative, the American Legion promotes patriotism and a strong military defense. (See also veterans of Foreign Wars.) amicus curiae (uh-MEE-kuhs KYOOR-ee-eye) See friend of the court." - E. D. Hirsch, The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy (Get the book.)

"Maybe the veterans Administration will climb on board instead of repeating their screening practices of the 1990s, when half the elderly vets had psas (Walter et al. 2006). The upshot is that no one should have a psa screen without a discussion as to how a "positive" result will affect clinical decisions. If the trade-off between the benefits and the risks are unappealing a priori, why do the test? Unfortunately, there is no substitute for an interchange with a wise counselor, usually a physician." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"The Department of veterans Affairs Cooperative Study Group on Antihypertensive Agents. N. Engl. J. Med. 328(13), 914-921. 184. Obarzanek, E., et al. (2001). Effects on blood lipids of a blood pressure-lowering diet: the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) trial. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 74(1), 80-89. 185. Dustan, H. P., and Weinsier, R. L. (1991). Treatment of obesity-associated hypertension. Ann. Epidemiol. 1, 371-379. 186. He, J., et al. (1999 ). Dietary sodium intake and subsequent risk of cardiovascular disease in overweight adults. JAMA 282(21), 2027-2034. 187. Rocchini, A. P." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "Double-masked, placebo-controlled, randomized trial of lutein and antioxidant supplementation in the intervention of atrophic age-related macular degeneration: the veterans LAST study (Lutein Antioxidant Supplementation Trial). Optometry 75, 216-230. 123. West,S.,Vitale,S.,Hallfrisch, 5.,etal. (1994). Are antioxidants or supplements protective for age-related macular degeneration? [see comment]. Arch. Ophthalmol. 112, 222-227. 124. VandenLangenberg, G. M., Mares-Perlman, J. A., Klein, R., Klein, B. E., Brady, W. E., and Palta, M. (1998)." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "Promote healthy eating in government cafeterias, veterans Administration medical centers, military installations, prisons, and other venues. ?Institute campaigns to promote healthy eating and activity patterns among federal and state employees in all departments. Food labeling and advertising ?Require chain restaurants to provide information about calorie content on menus or menu boards and nutrition labeling on wrappers. ?Require that containers for soft drinks and snacks sold in movie theaters, convenience stores, and other venues bear information about calories, fat, or sugar content. ?" - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

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