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Congress Is Again Weighing Aid for Ground Zero Rescuers
Barbara Burnette was on New York City’s all-city basketball team in high school. After joining the Police Department, where she rose to the rank of detective, she played on the police league’s women’s team. “Now the most I do is cough,” she told members of Congress on Tuesday. Her doctors have told her she may need a lung transplant, she said.
CITY ‘SLAP’ AT 9/11 UNIFORMED HEROES
The city has asked a judge to toss out 9/11 claims by 4,600 cops, firefighters, and paramedics, arguing the “uniformed” personnel are not entitled to workplace protection under state labor laws.
We need a doctor: President Obama should reappoint Dr. John Howard as World Trade Center health czar
During the presidential campaign, candidate Barack Obama expressed support for legislation to create a national health program for World Trade Center rescue and recovery workers.
Congress must finally fulfill America’s obligation to the forgotten victims of September 11th
A new study by researchers at Mount Sinai Medical Center confirms the terrible truth about the long-term damage suffered by many rescue and recovery workers who responded to the World Trade Center.
Medical examiner rules lung disease victim, Leon Heyward, a 9/11 death
Leon Heyward was within spitting distance of the twin towers when they went down on 9/11. Rather than run, he left his rubble-strewn car and hustled to the Department of Consumer Affairs office on Church St., where he worked as an investigator and helped get handicapped co-workers out
Bush plans to put 9/11 workers care in hands of company based outside NY; sick would pay upfront
The outgoing Bush administration is working “covertly” on a contract that would yank 9/11 health and treatment programs from the FDNY and Mount Sinai Medical Center and could force patients to pay upfront, two New York lawmakers charge.
New health secretary Daschle must do the right thing for sick 9/11 responders
In a noteworthy coincidence, President-elect Barack Obama announced his nominee for Health and Human Services secretary the day after a judge set the first trial date for lawsuits by sickened 9/11 rescue and recovery workers
Ground Zero Lawsuits Are to Begin in 2010
After years of wrangling, lawyers for New York City and for the thousands of ground zero workers suing the city have agreed to begin trials in the spring of 2010.
David Shayt, eclectic Smithsonian curator
David Shayt summed up his impact on the world in less than 100 words.
Mayor Bloomberg stands pat as foe of health care bill for 9/11 workers
Citing cost, Mayor Bloomberg defended Monday his opposition to a torpedoed congressional bill to provide health care and compensation to Ground Zero workers.