to depleted uranium make sure they know about the Uranium Medical Research Centre, www.umrc.net . UMRC is a registered charity in both the US and Canada and is headed up by Dr. Asaf Durakovic, a former head of nuclear medicine at the US VA medical center in Wilmington, Delaware. Dr. Durakovic got fired from his job at the VA for refusing to cover up the depleted uranium contamination of some of his Gulf War 1 patients.
About UMRCThe Uranium Medical Research Centre (UMRC) is an independent non-profit organization founded in 1997 to provide objective and expert scientific and medical research into the effects of uranium, transuranium elements, and radionuclides produced by the process of uranium decay and fission. UMRC is also a registered charity in the United States and Canada.
VisionUMRC's vision for the world is a full awareness of the risks of using nuclear products and by-products AND to contain the still reversible alterations of the earth's biosphere since the advent of nuclear events and the resulting contamination.
There needs to be an appreciation of the enormous effects and damage of uranium on the environment and human health. Governments, scientific communities, and the general public need to understand the many forms of contamination and specific effects. Continued abuses of uranium and radioisotopes will only lead to the steady degradation and eventual end of meaningful life on earth.
MissionUMRC's mission is to contribute to the vision by providing independent, objective, and expert scientific and medical research on the effects of uranium and transuranic elements.
Research into the effects of uranium products and by-products cannot be subject to considerations of economic, political, or military expediency. The true, unfiltered facts about its effects must be available to all persons and communities in order to further the goal of full awareness and containment.
http://www.umrc.net/about_umrc.aspx Uranium Bioassay and Clinical Studies Program – UMRC
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Uranium Medical Research Centre (UMRC) provides uranium isotope bioassays for redeployed and active-duty armed forces members, civilians, NGO staff and veterans of conflicts where uranium weapons have been deployed. Using state of the art laboratory equipment, it is possible to identify battlefield uranium contamination that occurs several years earlier.
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Fees and costs
Steps 1 – 9 (above) are UMRC’s basic uranium contamination and clinical effects assessment procedure. The process provides UMRC with the laboratory and clinical information needed as the raw material (i.e. basic clinical, chemical and physical data) to support our scientific investigations, studies and reports and to provide patients with medical
diagnostic evaluation and lab reports.
UMRC does not charge patients who participate in this program but patients or their sponsors are required to pay the costs of the laboratory analysis (i.e. the urine uranium bioassay). The cost is approximately $1,200.00 US, and changes periodically depending on
currency exchange rates, secure bio-specimen transportation costs, and laboratory procedure costs. If patients travel to UMRC’s clinic for a clinical assessment and appointments with our physicians, the patient is responsible for the cost of travel and living. There are no charges or
fees for our physicians’ services.
No UMRC staff member or associate involved in the UMRC Bioassay and Clinical Studies Program is paid or receives any form of income from participating in or providing professional or technical support to the program.
http://www.umrc.net/pdf/iraqi_freedom_bioassay_program.pdfThe link above is a pdf file, so you will need Adobe Acrobat reader to view the document.
VA medical expert exposes Pentagon cover-upSNIP
Durakovic is former chief of Nuclear Medicine at the VA Medical Facility in Wilmington, Del. It was there that he assessed 24 soldiers of the 144th Transportation and Supply Company of New Jersey for evidence of DU in their bodies.
The soldiers had worked on tanks and armored personnel carriers damaged by friendly fire--that is, hit with shells cased with DU.
He sent the soldiers to a clinic in Boston where Dr. Belton Burroughs and Dr. David Slingerland performed a whole-body count of uranium 238 on the veterans. They found that 14 of the 24 had been contaminated. According to Durakovic's June 26 testimony before the Subcommittee on Human Resources of the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, the government "lost" all records of these examinations.
In Philadelphia Durakovic was firm in stating that uranium is not dangerous in the ground but is dangerous if embedded in the body, ingested and especially if inhaled. He challenged those government scientists who claim uranium is not dangerous to argue the question with him.
Durakovic explained how the high-density DU shells burned during the Gulf War, spreading uranium oxide through the air where it could be inhaled by anyone in the vicinity, including many GIs. He also cited experiments by others showing that 84 percent of dogs exposed to inhaled uranium died of cancer of the lungs.
http://www.gulfwarvets.com/du4.htm