Veterans with deployment-related lung disease had higher levels of carbon-based particles in their lungs compared to healthy ...

A new study led by researchers at National Jewish Health provides quantitative evidence linking burn pit smoke exposure ...

WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden, whose son Beau was an Iraq war veteran, used his first Veterans Day in office to announce an effort to better understand, identify and treat medical conditions ...

A new study led by researchers at National Jewish Health provides quantitative evidence linking burn pit smoke exposure during military deployment to ...

The Biden administration expanded benefits for veterans with some cancers that could be linked to burn pit exposure.

The impact of VA Secretary Collins' staffing cuts remains hazy, not unlike the downwind side of a burn pit, Dan Clare of DAV argues in this op-ed. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP) In 2008, I left Balad Air ...

WASHINGTON — Burn pits, and the fight by veterans to get sufficient coverage for being exposed to them while serving in Iraq or Afghanistan is something that we have followed closely for years. Some ...

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