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FDNY Adds Nine Names To 9/11 Memorial Wall
The Fire Department added nine names Thursday to the memorial wall for deaths related to World Trade Center illnesses.
The wall was unveiled last year, just before the 10th anniversary of the attacks, with 55 names on it.
Those charged with doling out money to sick 9/11 workers face complicated task
Sheila Birnbaum is known in legal circles across New York as the “queen of torts” for her prowess in sorting out complicated cases. But she may be up against her most daunting task to date
9/11 illness treatment center exhibits growth and change, 11 years after attacks
As the terrorists struck on Sept. 11, 2001, Dr. Nomi Levy-Carrick was starting school at Weill Cornell Medical College on the Upper East Side. She still recalls the feeling of helplessness that set in as the shock and horror of that day unfolded.
New Registry Study Links Respiratory Illness & PTSD in WTC Survivors
A WTC Health Registry study published online in the American Journal of Public Health linked for the first time lower respiratory symptoms and probable post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in WTC survivors 5 to 6 years later.
WTC Health Program Funds Registry Until 2016
The federal WTC Health Program has awarded the WTC Health Registry a four-year extension to continue its work identifying and tracking the long-term physical and mental health effects of the WTC disaster among the 71,000 enrollees directly exposed to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
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.