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Dr. Michael Crane, medical director of the World Trade Center Health Program Clinical Center of Excellence at Mount Sinai
Crane says that one of the biggest challenges in treating 9/11 first responders is that 25 years after the attacks, illnesses including asbestos related diseases and possibly dementia are just now being diagnosed.
Dr. Leigh Wilson On Lingering Chronic Health Effects of 9/11
Jim Monaghan’s guest on Jersey Magazine is Dr. Leigh Wilson, Medical Director, NYC Health + Hospitals WTC Health Program Clinical Center of Excellence (CCE).
9/11 Fuel Tanker Driver Who Kept Ground Zero Running Now Fights Cancer, Kidney Failure
Robert Ascolillo spent nine months driving a fuel tanker through Lower Manhattan after the September 11 attacks. Today he is in hospice care, battling kidney failure and a skin cancer diagnosis he believes trace directly back to those months breathing the air at Ground Zero.
Staten Island councilman introduces 9/11 legislation ahead of 25th anniversary
Staten Island City Councilman Frank Morano introduced two bills Thursday aimed at ensuring the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks is marked by both remembrance and action.
58th Convention honors 9/11 fallen, those lost in the years since
At the 58th Convention, the IAFF honored those killed on Sept. 11, 2001, and the hundreds of fire fighters and emergency medical workers who have died from 9/11-related illnesses in the 25 years since.
Getting Out
How the work of two pioneering researchers has reshaped our understanding of human behavior in fire and made building evacuation safer.
Responding to the Responders
A quarter century after its founding, the WTC Health Program monitors and treats firefighters and others who were exposed to hazards on 9/11 and at Ground Zero.
9/11 link to heart disease rejected as responders cry foul
Heart diseases won’t be put on the list of covered health issues for 9/11 responders and survivors, the head of the World Trade Center Health Program recently ruled.
How the WTC Health Program continues to support 9/11 responders
Rear Admiral Lisa Delaney discusses eligibility, covered conditions and why some responders are only now seeking care.
Talks underway to settle 9/11 World Trade Center air quality records fight
Both sides in the long-running legal dispute over the public release of thousands of 9/11 World Trade Center documents generated by New York City confirm they are in settlement talks with just a month to go before the 25th anniversary of the attacks.