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V.C.F. on hold until feds add cancer to Zadroga Act
Fifty-four-year-old Glen Klein is one of scores of injured Sept. 11 first responders who are anxiously awaiting compensation from the government for economic losses tied to their physical ailments.
Science lacking on 9/11 and cancer, experts say
The decision could help hundreds of people get payouts from a multibillion-dollar World Trade Center health fund to repay those ailing after they breathed in toxic dust created by the collapsing twin towers on Sept. 11, 2001.
The topic of cancer
As cancers have stricken men and women who labored at Ground Zero after 9/11, many have fervently hoped that the federal government would recognize a link between their illnesses and their service.
US wants 9/11 health program to include 50 cancers
Federal officials say a health program for first responders and New Yorkers stricken by toxic dust unleashed in the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center should be expanded to include 50 types of cancer.
Sept. 11 Health Fund Given Clearance to Cover Cancer
A federal health official’s ruling has cleared the way for 50 different types of cancer to be added to the list of sicknesses covered by a $4.3 billion fund set up to compensate and treat people exposed to the toxic smoke, dust and fumes in the months after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Zadroga Act will cover 50 cancers after landmark ruling
Cancers will now be covered by the 9/11 health law in a landmark ruling that clears the way for thousands of Ground Zero first-responders to receive treatment and compensation.
Logistics Hang Over a Ruling on 9/11 Cancer
About five years ago, Patricia Workman’s bones started breaking, and she was found to have multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow. At the same time, her skin cancer started to proliferate, leaving her face so scarred that she needed reconstructive surgery and still hides it with dark glasses.
Study: 9/11 WTC dust sickened residents years later
Several years after dust from the World Trade Center twin towers found its way into thousands of homes and nearly every crevice in lower Manhattan, area residents still suffered health problems, according to a new study.
WTC health program opens Brooklyn clinic
The Rev. Terry Lee said he was an undocumented immigrant living in Brooklyn on Sept. 11, 2001. The Jamaican native said he spent months after as a volunteer clergy, blessing remains and comforting other first responders.
E.P.A. Chemist Who Warned of Ground Zero Dust Is Reinstated
A senior Environmental Protection Agency chemist who argued that she was removed from her job in retaliation for accusing the agency of underestimating the toxicity of dust at ground zero has been reinstated with back pay by an administrative board.