New Washington State Board Looks into Needs of…
By Tri-City Herald Staff | September 29, 2020 A new Washington state board has started looking at the unmet health care needs of more than 10,000 workers at the U.S.
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Y-12 Advisory Board Work Group Holds Meeting
The Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health’s Work Group (WG) held a video conference to discuss Petition 250 to expand the years covered under the Special Exposure Cohort beyond…
Claims with denied dose reconstruction reopened for 3…
DENIED PART B CANCER CLAIMS FROM ROCKY FLATS, SANTA SUSANA AREA IV, AND DESOTO FACILITIES CAN BE REOPENED The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) published complete rewrites…
Arizona’s ‘Downwinders’ Fight for Compensation
Article from NBC News | By: Anita Hassan
KINGMAN, Ariz. — Danielle Stephens ran her fingers down a long list of her relatives' names and sighed.
All of…
Latest News from the Department of Labor
The Department of Labor’s Division of Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation (DEEOIC) has published three notices on their website concerning the program. Virtual Webinar: Impairment and Wage Loss September 15,…
Radiation Advisory Board Holds 135th Meeting Virtually
Before the pandemic, the Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health planned to hold an in-person meeting in Idaho Falls, ID August 26-27-2020. Because of the health concerns with meeting…
Raiders of the Lost Archive
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) | By Katharine Coggeshall Image credit: LANL Hundreds of boxes sit in a vault in the Denver Federal Center, each filled with hard copies of…
Y-12 Petitioners Submit White Paper Supporting Petition 250
Once a petition has been submitted to add a group of workers at a nuclear weapons facility to the Special Exposure Cohort (SEC) Petition and qualified by the National Institute…
DOL appoints members to the third-term Advisory Board
The Department of Labor posted the names of the individuals who will serve on the third-term of the Advisory Board on Toxic Substances and Worker Health. Their term will expire…
Newsletter Edition 37 Volume 11
In this edition: Ask The Respiratory Therapist News from the Advisory Boards New Medical Bill Processing Provider PCM Impairments Cold War Patriots National Day of Remembrance At Home Stories 2020…