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Stuyvesant High School Grads Who Fell Ill After 9/11 Urge Former Classmates to Get Screened
Lila Nordstrom was a happy, healthy senior at Stuyvesant High School in lower Manhattan in 2001, even after the 9/11 attacks that filled the school’s Battery Park neighborhood with dust and debris.
Ex-high schoolers sickened by 9/11 toxins urge others to get screened
It’s one test that might even scare a Stuyvesant HS graduate.
Death of 9/11 hero Lt. Edward Meehan
The death has taken place of FDNY Lieutenant Edward Meehan, who had been battling cancer stemming from his rescue work at the World Trade Center in the days and weeks after 9/11.
9/11 Health and Compensation in the News
Below are summaries with url’s to news articles that appeared recently about 9/11 Health and Compensation issues. An archive of past articles by year, can be found on the 911 Health Watch website at http://www.911healthwatch.org/news/ : January 10, 2018 — Luxora Leader — FDNY hero Joseph Stach Jr. of Valley Cottage remembered: Editorial FDNY Lt. […]
FDNY hero Joseph Stach Jr. of Valley Cottage remembered: Editorial
FDNY Lt. (Ret.) Joseph Stach Jr., cited for bravery so many times as a firefighter, known as a friend in his community and a hero to his family and to us all, has died.
Dr. James Melius, Advocate for Workers’ Health, Dies at 69
Dr. James Melius, an international expert on workplace medicine who advised the sponsors of a federal law that authorized billions of dollars for the medical care of first responders and others after the World Trade Center attacks in 2001…
Protecting, helping 9/11 first responders
Asthma and cancer are just some of the conditions the CDC reports that 9/11 first responders are plagued
Services set for state trooper who died from 9-11-related illness
The veteran New York state trooper who died this week after battling an illness related to his service after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center will be laid to rest early next week.
Reps. Maloney, Nadler, & King Statement on Passing of Dr. James Melius
Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney, Congressman Jerrold Nadler, and Congressman Peter King, co-sponsors of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, released the following statement regarding the passing of Dr. James Melius…
Fallen trooper, Colonie native a ‘dedicated family man’
Michael J. Anson, who died Tuesday, died of 9/11-related illness