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Prolonged brain cytokine elevation and microgliosis following exposure to World Trade Center dust particulate matter in male spontaneously hypertensive rats
Collectively, these data suggest WTC dust exposure induces sustained neuroinflammatory signaling and may elicit a compensatory myelin response indicative of early neurodegeneration.
As More 9/11 Responders and Survivors Fall Ill, the Tragedy Continues 25 Years Later
As we remember those who were lost, we must also confront the continuing public health crisis affecting those who dropped everything to help their neighbors, and others who worked, lived, and attended school in the surrounding communities.
9/11 25 years later: Medical experts, first responders and survivors set for conference on long-term health impacts of terror attacks
More than two dozen experts, first responders, survivors, advocates and policymakers will reflect on the lasting health impacts from the 9/11 terrorist attacks during a virtual conference next Thursday hosted by Mount Sinai Health System.
Nearly 25 years later, Staten Island is still counting 9/11’s cost — 3,690 cancer diagnoses and rising
Hundreds of Staten Islanders who responded to, worked near or were exposed to the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks have developed cancer in the years since.
New 9/11 Research Center on Early Life Exposure
Among WTC survivors, those exposed to 9/11 in utero or as children, teenagers, or young adults are a unique population.
9/11 health conference to spotlight WTC Health Program impact
Mount Sinai Health System will host a daylong conference examining what researchers and clinicians have learned about the lasting health effects of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the role of the World Trade Center Health Program in caring for responders and survivors.
Former Indiana Task Force 1 members meet to reflect on 9/11 deployment to Ground Zero
Eleven former members of Indiana Task Force 1 met Friday in Indianapolis to reflect on their deployment to Ground Zero following the September 11 terrorist attacks.
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.