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9/11 and Cancer: Behind the Headlines
As we seem to learn every month or so, reporting on statistics is tricky business (When Skyrocketing Isn’t July 19, 2016). The latest example concerns health risks associated with exposure to the terror attack on the World Trade Center (WTC) on 9/11.
Diagnoses of 9/11-linked cancers have tripled in less than 3 years
More than 5,400 Ground Zero responders and others who lived, worked or went to school near the fallen Twin Towers have come down with 9/11-linked cancers, a grim tally that has tripled in the past 2¹/₂ years.
9/11 Responders’ Attorney: Fight For Care Continues
Thousands of emergency responders and construction workers fell ill after breathing toxic air at the site of the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks.
After the attacks
Many 9/11 first responders still face serious health problems. Jacqueline Moline, AB’84, MD’88, has been helping them since 2001.
9/11 Victim Compensation Fund gets new master
On 9/11, Rupa Bhattacharyya was in an office near the White House watching TV as the second plane smashed into the World Trade Center.
Job well done: Her wisdom helped 9/11 families soldier on
Thanks and congratulations to lawyer Sheila Birnbaum, who well served the public good for five years as special master of the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund.
9/11 law firm takes on Flint water crisis
A partner in the controversial Manhattan law firm that raked in hundreds of millions in a settlement for 10,000 Ground Zero workers has now taken on the tainted-water debacle in Flint, Mich.
September 11th Victim Compensation Fund Begins Accepting New Claims
Payment on All Group A Claims Has Been Authorized
Ailing West Milford 9/11 responder makes desperate plea for aid on billboards
Mike Megna rushed to Ground Zero on Sept. 11, 2001, to help look for survivors in the rubble of the fallen towers.
FDNY EMS WTC Heroes Denied Their Disability Pensions
I am friends with Gary Smiley, someone I’ve never met face to face. The bond that has formed this friendship is the attack on the World Trade Center on 9/11. I am one of the survivors. Gary is a Rescue Paramedic.