9/11: Twenty Years On, Responders Still Paying a Heavy Price
Rescue workers are still battling significant health issues related to the terrorism event. New research from Edith Cowan University (ECU) in Australia […] More
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Measuring the Reverberating Effects of Explosive Weapons Used in Populated Areas
The United Nations Institute of Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) has published a new research framework to help measure the extensive, reverberating consequences of […] More
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Gulf War Illness: Depleted Uranium Ruled Out as a Cause of Mystery Condition
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the 1991 Gulf War. A United Nations coalition of about 700,000 troops led by the […] More
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Experts Sought for Committee Assessing Long Term Risks of Space Radiation Exposure
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is searching for experts to serve on a study which will review and assess […] More
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NNSA Official Says Seattle Cesium Spill Should Be Clean in About a Year
The University of Washington’s Research and Training Building at Harborview Medical Center has been closed since May 2019, when workers for International […] More
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DOE Injecting Molasses Into Ground Sites to Encourage Bacteria to Break Down Contaminants
The Pantex Plant near Amarillo has been working diligently to clean up its part of the High Plains region and has identified […] More
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VA Now Deciding ‘Blue Water Navy’ Veteran Claims: 14 Conditions Presumed Related to Agent Orange Exposure
The decades-long fight for Blue Water Navy veterans to receive VA disability benefits for illnesses linked to exposure to Agent Orange during […] More
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A Solution for Cleaning Up PFAS, One of the World’s Most Intractable Pollutants
A cluster of industrial chemicals known by the shorthand term “PFAS” has infiltrated the far reaches of our planet with significance that […] More
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FOI Develops More Reliable Models of Toxic Gas Clouds
FOI, the Swedish Defence Research Agency, has produced new data for calculating how toxic gases disperse through the air. Toxic gas clouds, […] More
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Who Trains to Run Tests on Deadly CBRN Agents While Taking Mortar Fire? The 1st AML, That’s Who.
Soldiers from the 1st Area Medical Laboratory, part of the 20th Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosives (CBRNE) Command, recently completed their culminating […] More
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The Million Veteran Program: Metabolon to Analyze Samples
Metabolon, Inc., announced today that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has been contracted through its alliance with AKESOgen to perform […] More