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VA Should Focus its Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry on Communications and Improving Health Care

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...
Stars and Stripes

The BLUF: The redesigned Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry

This week’s episode of The BLUF looks at the updated Airborne Hazards and Open Air Burn Pit Registry associated with the PACT Act, which expands VA health care and benefits for veterans exposed to ...
The Times Leader

Lawmakers require VA to track effects of burn pits

(AP) J.D. Williams didn’t think much about the smoke cloud that often shrouded his air base in Iraq. Not when it covered everything he owned with black soot or when his wheezing and coughing made it ...
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Reassessment of the Department of Veterans Affairs Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry

In response to concerns over possible adverse effects of exposures to emissions from open burn pits used in Southwest Asia military operations, Congress passed PL 112-260, §201, which directed the ...
NBC New York

From Service to Sick: The Effects of Veterans' Exposure to Burn Pits

Tens of thousands of veterans and service members stationed at military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan say exposure to trash fires or “burn pits” has left them with breathing problems and other chronic ...