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Jon Stewart to help Zadroga advocates inform thousands with 9/11-linked illnesses about free health care
One year ago, 9/11 survivors’ advocates secured near-permanent health care coverage for first responders and others with lasting problems from the attacks.
Rockland: NYC firefighter dies from 9/11-related cancer
Joseph O’Toole, 61, died Monday.
Joseph O’Toole, Ground Zero FDNY hero, dead of cancer at 61
A longtime Bronx firefighter succumbed Monday to 9/11-related cancer nearly 14 years after he spent five months working at Ground Zero.
Ailing 9/11 responder wants more people to get screened
Michael Dorian went down to Ground Zero on 9/1 as a civilian.
FDNY Announces Publication of 15 Year Study on the Health Effects of the World Trade Center Attacks
Following the fifteenth anniversary of the World Trade Center disaster this past September, FDNY has published and mailed to every FDNY WTC-exposed responder in the FDNY Health Program a summary of its 15 years of health studies.
Names of Staten Island’s 9/11 first responders coming to memorial
By next Sept. 11, the names of Staten Island first responders who died in the weeks, months and years after the attacks will be etched into a stone memorial overlooking New York Harbor, alongside a towering memorial for those…
9/11 workers ask for coverage under Zadroga Act
Some rescue workers at Ground Zero are pushing to expand the types of medical conditions covered under the World Trade Center treatment program.
Doctors release study linking WTC dust to nerve damage
Doctors at Winthrop University Hospital say they have definitive proof that first responders to the Sept. 11 attacks acquired a nerve disease from the neurotoxins they were exposed to at Ground Zero.
Researchers distinguish types of PTSD for treatment
Fifteen years after 9/11, a new Yale study may help scientists develop treatments for first responders suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
Study Links Neuropathy To Dust From World Trade Center Debris
Doctors on Long Island said Tuesday that they have linked yet another illness to World Trade Center dust.