Archive of
In Michigan Senate race, Abdul El-Sayed’s attack on Mike Rogers’ 9/11 record needs context
Rogers opposed the 2010 bill that created the World Trade Center Health Program and dedicated billions in funding for 9/11 first responders, but the nine-vote tally El-Sayed described is missing context.
25 Years After 9/11, Mount Sinai Continues Its Commitment to Caring for First Responders and Safeguarding Public Health
Like countless New Yorkers, Michael Crane, MD, MPH, has his own personal story about the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001.
32BJ highlights members’ 9/11 role, launches campaign to organize 50,000 security officers
Twenty-five years after 9/11, Local 32BJ of the Service Employees International Union is using the anniversary to renew its push to organize tens of thousands of New York City security officers, arguing that the workers who help keep the city’s buildings safe still too often lack basic workplace protections.
Invitation to October Research Webinar
Presentation: Evolving Cancer Characteristics Among World Trade Center Survivors: An Update from the WTC Environmental Health Center
Lawmakers seek federal help as 9/11 pension costs soar
New legislation would authorize more than $5.9 billion to reimburse eligible public employee retirement systems for costs of death and disability benefits that have resulted from the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on the World Trade Center.
WTC Health Program Now Wants Decades-Old Records to Prove Breathing Issues
Advocates for survivors of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, are pushing back against a policy change by the World Trade Center Health Program, which tightens the requirements for documentation, in order to receive coverage of “aerodigestive conditions,” such as sinusitis or asthma.
Garbarino, Gillibrand Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Reimburse Public Retirement Systems for 9/11-Related Disability and Death Benefits
As more members of the 9/11 community have developed serious health conditions or lost their lives to 9/11-related illnesses, public employee retirement systems have faced growing costs associated with disability retirement and death benefits.
Why first responders are still dying from 9/11 related illnesses, 25 years later
Nicholas Papain, an FDNY union attorney who has handled thousands of claims to the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, joins “The Daily Report” to break down the harm to public health caused by the attacks.
Study finds environmental factors may affect long-term health of 9/11 responders
A new study finds where World Trade Center responders live later in life may influence their long-term physical and mental health.
Sept 11 Responders Developing Dementia Find It Is Not on the Federal Program’s Covered Conditions List
Responders who spent weeks at Ground Zero are being diagnosed with dementia at ages when the condition is rare, and the federal program created to treat their 9/11 illnesses does not pay for it.