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Dr. James Melius, Advocate for Workers’ Health, Dies at 69
Dr. James Melius, an international expert on workplace medicine who advised the sponsors of a federal law that authorized billions of dollars for the medical care of first responders and others after the World Trade Center attacks in 2001…
Protecting, helping 9/11 first responders
Asthma and cancer are just some of the conditions the CDC reports that 9/11 first responders are plagued
Services set for state trooper who died from 9-11-related illness
The veteran New York state trooper who died this week after battling an illness related to his service after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center will be laid to rest early next week.
Reps. Maloney, Nadler, & King Statement on Passing of Dr. James Melius
Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney, Congressman Jerrold Nadler, and Congressman Peter King, co-sponsors of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, released the following statement regarding the passing of Dr. James Melius…
Fallen trooper, Colonie native a ‘dedicated family man’
Michael J. Anson, who died Tuesday, died of 9/11-related illness
Maloney Asks CDC to Bring 9/11 First Responder Clinical Center to Hudson Valley
Representative Sean Patrick Maloney (NY-18) has requested that the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), allow Mount Sinai Health System to establish a clinical care center…
Local trooper dies from disease linked to 9/11
Trooper Michael J. Anson, who died Tuesday, worked on recovery efforts after the terror attacks
Genetics linked to PTSD in World Trade Center responders
Researchers identified a novel polygenic expression aggregate among World Trade Center responders with PTSD, but not in control responders without PTSD.
Stop stalling on WTC sick: U.S. Labor Department and NYCERS are failing 9/11 victims
Why is the federal labor department at odds with the rest of the U.S. government and universal opinion of the medical and scientific community in recognizing that the airborne toxins released in the destruction of the World Trade Center…
Sickened by toxic 9/11 dust, poet’s dying wish was to come home to Minnesota
As Holly Anderson, 62, looked out the airplane window Dec. 22 at the sun setting over the Mississippi River, she knew she was home.