Open-air burn pits were used on military bases in the Middle East and Southwest Asia for trash disposal, exposing U.S. troops to numerous and profound health consequences. Research is underway to understand the scope of the health and wellness impacts from burn pit exposures and to establish ...
An October 2022 report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine said VA should “initiate a new phase” of its Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry to make it “a user-friendly, efficient and effective resource.” ...
Currently, the Department of Veterans Affairs decides these exposure claims on a case-by-case basis, with the exception of those filed for asthma, rhinitis or sinusitis. The burden of proving one's illness is related to a burn pit exposure falls on the veteran, leading to delays in health ...
President Joe Biden called on the Department of Veterans Affairslast year to examine the impact of burn pits and other airborne hazards. Karine Jean-Pierre, the new White House press secretary, said Wednesday that passage of the bill "would be a welcome and long-awaited achievement" for vetera...
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First, veterans who served near burn pits will get 10 years of health care coverage through the Department of Veterans Affairs upon their separation from the military rather than five. Second, the legislation directs the VA to presume that certain respiratory illnesses and cancers were related to...
Biden is not alone in thinking burn pits impacted soldiers' health. Since 2014, more than 200,000 Afghanistan and Iraq War veterans haveregisteredin the "Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry" run by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), detailing exposure to service-related airborn...
"A burn pit contained essentially everything a military base produces. They (military personnel) dig a big hole in the ground and dump everything into that pit," said John Osterholzer, M.D., associate professor of internal medicine in the division of pulmonary and critical care. "That could...
The Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense continue to ignore our veterans’ suffering and deaths caused by their neglect despite their own statistics which show burn pits as the source of these health problems. Sign our petition to tell Congress it must ...
"This is what a loophole looks like," says veteran who does not qualify for help under new burn pit law In January, theVeterans Affairs Department will start processing all benefits claimsrelated to the PACT Act. The VA has already started processing claims from terminally ill veterans and has...