A VA-sponsored National Academies committee is seeking input from veterans who developed neurodegenerative conditions after deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, where burn pit toxin exposures were widespread; the 2022 PACT Act has added over 20 presumptive conditions to ease disability benefits access without proving direct causation.
Source: news va. Original: https://news.va.gov/146174/i-never-let-breast-cancer-disable-me/
