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NYC says retired firefighter’s cancers are caused by drinking and not 9/11, ignores court order to provide disability pension

The city is balking at a court order to provide a retired FDNY firefighter wasting away from a 9/11-related cancer with a full disability pension, believing the former smoke eater’s lethal illness is linked to excessive drinking…

18 years later, 9/11 responders and survivors continue to receive medical monitoring and treatment

Retired canine search specialist Steve Rochford was deployed with Phoenix Fire’s FEMA team a few days after the September 11th attacks.

Single-mom with cancer ‘could go tomorrow,’ but fighting due to 9/11 fund

When the first tower was struck, “we felt the turbulence — we had no idea what happened.”

DOE Searching For All Students At Lower Manhattan Schools Affected By 9/11

Eighteen years after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, a new outreach is underway with the target being students from schools in lower Manhattan.

Former New York City students, staff eligible for 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund

Officials are encouraging more than 20,000 current and former students and educators at New York City public schools to apply for health care through the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund…

Mental health, long-term medication adherence, and the control of asthma symptoms among persons exposed to the WTC 9/11 disaster

A positive association between mental health conditions and poor asthma control has been documented in the World Trade Center-exposed population.

World Trade Center Lung Injury May Be Predicted by Metabolic Syndrome

Metabolic syndrome is useful for predicting future lung injury in a cohort of individuals who were exposed to particulate matter from the World Trade Center (WTC) collapse, according to study results published in CHEST.

World Trade Center Health Program; Petition 023-Uterine Cancer, Including Endometrial Cancer; Finding of Insufficient Evidence

A Rule by the Health and Human Services Department on 09/24/2019

Thousands of Former NYC Students, Teachers Near World Trade Center After 9/11 Warned of Potential Health Problems

The DOE said they will be sending letters to 19,000 former students enrolled at schools south of Houston Street

One last rescue: The House of Representatives does the right thing for 9/11 responders, and the Senate must follow suit

The House of Representatives has acted with bipartisan compassion in allowing all sick first responders whose bodies were damaged by their selfless service at the World Trade Center to get promised aid…