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Characteristics of Cancers in Community Members Exposed to the World Trade Center Disaster at a Young Age
A total of 23 different types of cancer were identified, including cancer types rare for this age group. Many were diagnosed in individuals lacking traditional cancer-specific risk factors such as tobacco use.
CFPB and New York Attorney General Take Action Against Companies that Cheated 9/11 Victims
The harmed consumers are entitled to payments from the James Zadroga 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund.
CDC keeps contract with Managed Care Advisors-Sedgwick as it struggles to provide medical services to 9/11 responders
The CDC has no plans to terminate a contract with a company that is struggling to provide medical services for 9/11 responders, and the agency is declining to say what penalties the firm could face.
Chef who fed first responders after 9/11 struggles with cancer
Moogan would deliver food to the building for three days, not knowing it would impact his health in the future. A little over a decade after the attacks, Moogan was diagnosed with cancer.
Assessment of Alzheimer’s Disease Imaging Biomarkers in World Trade Center Responders with Cognitive Impairment at Midlife
Preliminary results suggest that WTC responders with neurocognitive dysfunction may be at increased risk for a neurodegenerative dementia process as a result of their exposures at September 11, 2001.
Funeral held for 9/11 former Larchmont fire chief, Brian Payne
A funeral Mass was held for Brian Payne at St. Augustine’s Church in Larchmont, Nov. 17, 2022.
Chef who fed 9/11 responders needs cancer treatment
Moogan said he was glad to help in some way and brought seven trays to the hungry officers. About ten years later, Moogan was diagnosed with lung cancer.
Catskill widow remembers husband after his cancer death linked to 9/11
The sergeant was a police recruit with the NYPD. He had a seizure 20 years later. The kids found him, and called 911. It was a brain tumor – linked to his time working at Ground Zero.
Chuck Schumer Quietly Moving Lame-Duck $3 Billion Payout to Families of 9/11 Victims
Schumer’s attempt at a rapid passage through unanimous consent would bypass debate on a payout using PPP money, angering families of Marines killed in the 1983 Beirut bombing.
What Congress must accomplish: Some must-dos in the waning days of the 117th session
Unless more money is added soon, care for these responders and survivors, the heroes and victims of 9/11, will have to be rationed. No one opposes plugging the hole, but it still hasn’t happened yet.