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Annual Member Newsletter Released
The World Trade Center (WTC) Health Program’s Annual Member Newsletter is now available online. A print version will be arriving to member mailboxes soon.
General Dynamics awarded $309M WTC health program support contract
General Dynamics’ IT services unit has won a potential 10-year, $308.7 million contract to help the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention run a medical benefits program that supports people affected by the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
GDIT Wins $309M CDC WTC Health Program TPA Support Contract
General Dynamics Information Technology has won a $308.7 million contract from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to serve as a third-party administrator, or TPA, for the World Trade Center, or WTC, Health Program.
Breast cancer diagnosis in Long Island man who worked at Ground Zero leads him to share story
Dominic D’Amico was washing his hands in his Smithtown office when he looked in the mirror and noticed he was bleeding through his shirt from his chest.
Manuel Trujillo, Who Helped New Yorkers Heal After 9/11, Dies at 80
As Bellevue Hospital’s director of psychiatry, he guided rescue workers and grieving families through trauma when terrorists attacked in 2001.
FDNY firefighters who died of 9/11 illness to be honored on national memorial wall
The names of more than 170 FDNY firefighters who died from 9/11 illnesses will soon be added to the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation Memorial in Maryland, so that the ultimate sacrifice they made — from their efforts in the days and weeks after the terror attack — won’t be forgotten, officials said.
World Trade Center Toxic Exposure Tied to Higher Risk for Lung Cancer
Sean A.P. Clouston, Ph.D., from Stony Brook University in New York, and colleagues examined the association between occupational exposures while working at the WTC disaster sites and the incidence of lung cancer more than a decade later.
NYPD Memorial Adds 50 Names in Battery Park City Ceremony
Among those present were the family of NYPD Detective Jewel Todman-Phillip, who were also present at this year’s 9/11 Memorial reading of the names.
Thousands expected on Staten Island for national ceremony honoring 176 FDNY members lost to post-9/11 illnesses
A solemn memorial tribute will be held on Staten Island Saturday to honor 176 FDNY members lost to post-9/11 illnesses, adding their names to a plaque that will become part of the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial in Emmitsburg, Maryland.
9/11 WTC Responders Have Threefold Higher Risk Of Lung Cancer
The toxic dust and fumes that lingered over Ground Zero likely boosted lung cancer rates among rescue workers, researchers reported this month in JAMA Network Open.