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Breach of Trust: World Trade Center
http://www.riskandinsurance.com/story.jsp?storyId=27076323
April 17, 2008
Peter Rousmaniere and Steve Yahn two columnists for Risk and Insurance an online magazine, have written a series of articles about how September 11 forever altered the workers' comp landscape and eroded the trust implicit between employer and employee. The editors of Risk and Insurance note that the "tragedy has underscored that the 20th century worker safety net is not designed for the catastrophic risks of the 21st century. Catastrophic risk no longer signifies immediate injuries or rapid death suffered within a small geographic perimeter, but rather a disease emerging over large organizational terrain."

2009 Clinical Guidelines For Children and Adolescents Exposed to The World Trade Center Disaster
http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/downloads/pdf/chi/chi28-4.pdf
May 28, 2010
In 2006 and again in 2008, the NewYork City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene disseminated clinical guidelines for evaluating and treating adults exposed to the World Trade Center disaster (www.nyc.gov/html/doh/downloads/pdf/chi/chi27-6.pdf) This latest publication will assist health care providers in identifying, evaluating, and treating symptoms related to exposure to theWTC disaster among children and provide resources for additional information and referrals.

September 11th Worker Protection Task Force Issues Report
June 19, 2009
The September 11th Worker Protection Task Force (“Task Force”) was created by the September 11th Worker Protection Task Force Act, which was enacted as part of the World Trade Center disability law. The World Trade Center disability law amended the New York State Retirement and Social Security Law and the New York City Administrative Code to provide that any public employee who suffered an injury or illness directly related to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, be presumptively eligible for an accidental disability. The 9/11 Worker Protection Task Force has issued its 2009 annual report. Click on link to read the report.
9/11 Worker Protection Task Force Report

Stanford Psychiatrist Shares Thoughts on Emotional Impact of 9/11
http://www.dentalplans.com/articles/Stanford%20Psychiatrist%20on/
May 6, 2008
David Spiegel, MD a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine discusses the impacts the 9/11 attacks had and continue to have on people's mental health.

Tests Reveal Continuing Lung Problems in 9/11 Workers
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/08/nyregion/08lung.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
April 8, 2010
A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine reveals that rescue and recovery personnel who responded to the World Trade Center Attacks continue to exhibit ongoing breathing problems. The study was conducted by the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center.

Worker Protection Task Force Makes Recommendations on 9/11 Disabilities
http://www.labor.state.ny.us/pressreleases/PDFs/911_WPTF_Interim_Report_March_4_2008.pdf#page=1
March 5, 2008
State Labor Commissioner M. Patricia Smith announced today that the 9/11 Worker Protection Task Force has issued an Interim Report outlining their recommendations for evaluating disabilities related to the attack on the World Trade Center (WTC). The recommendations follow a year of testimony and evaluation of evidence relating to the terrorist attack and its aftermath. The 9/11 Worker Protection Task Force was created to assure that public employees who participated in rescue, recovery and cleanup operations and sustained injuries or illnesses directly related to the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center would be eligible for accidental disability benefits if their injuries or illnesses prevented the safe performance of their essential job duties. To read the report, click on the link.

New York City 9/11 Health Website
http://www.nyc.gov/9-11healthinfo
The latest information about 9/11 health and services
New York City has launched a comprehensive new website that offers the latest information about 9/11 health and services. The “one-stop shopping” website makes it much easier for New Yorkers who were exposed to the collapse of the World Trade Center find the free medical treatment and resources they need to get better. Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden, MD, MPH speaks about what we know about 9/11 physical and mental health problems. The website also includes easily accessible health research findings about the different groups of people who were affected by the disaster: rescue and recovery workers, residents, children, city employees and others.

NYC Announces New 9/11 Mental Health Benefit
http://nyc.gov/html/doh/wtc/downloads/pdf/mhb/9-11MentalHealthBenefitFactsheet.pdf
April 22, 2008
A new benefit program is being offered for people still struggling with the effects of the World Trade Center attack, the New York City Health Department said Monday. The program will reimburse out-of-pocket costs for mental health or substance-use treatment through a claims process similar to any insurance benefit
Click here to read the program fact sheet in Spanish
Click here to read the program fact sheet in Chinese
Click here to read the program fact sheet in Polish
Click here to read the program fact sheet

Staten Island Hospital Partners With Mount Sinai Medical Center in Offering Treatment to 9/11 Responders
http://www.silive.com/news/advance/index.ssf?/base/news/1229432419241540.xml&coll=1
December 17, 2008
Richmond University Medical Center on Staten Island has entered a joint venture with the Mount Sinai WTC treatment program to provide more accessible services for rescue and recovery workers who are ill. Click on link to learn more.

World Trade Center Health Registry 2009 Report and Findings
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/40679760/WTC-AnnualReport
May 28, 2010
This report includes information about the Registry's key activities and accomplishments in 2009, as well as details on recent findings about the health consequences of 9/11. It also includes resource information for those affected by the disaster.

WTC Environmental Health Center
http://www.nyc.gov/html/hhc/downloads/pdf/wtc-health-center-en.pdf
March 6, 2003
The World Trade Center Environmental Health Center is a Center of Excellence to treat people who have health problems as a result of 9/11. The Center has locations at Bellevue Hospital on the East Side of Manhattan, Gouverneur Healthcare Services in Lower Manhattan and Elmhurst Hospital in Queens. The Center works in partnership with community organizations and residents affected by 9/11. You can get treatment even if you cannot pay or don’t have health insurance. For more information call 1-877-WTC-0107 or visit the link above.

Asthma Rate Among WTC Responders Twice That of National Average
http://news.nurse.com/article/20100322/NY02/103220022
March 23, 2010
Responders to the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center suffer asthma at a rate of more than twice the general U.S. population, according to research conducted by the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. Click on link to read article.

California Congressman Introduces Legislation to Provide 9/11 Health and Compensation Benefits
http://www.imperialvalleynews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1204&Itemid=1
April 15, 2008
Congressman Robert Filner is cosponsoring HR 3543, the 9/11 Health and Compensation Act. If enacted the legislation would provide medical monitoring for everyone who was exposed to toxins released by the collapse of the World Trade Center towers, treatment for anyone who is sick as a result, and compensation for economic losses by reopening the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund. Under this bill, proper care would be guaranteed to the thousands of people who came from across the country to respond to the 9/11 attacks.

Debate Persists Regarding Cancer Rates Among 9/11 Responders
http://www.northjersey.com/news/ny_metro/ny_city/032810_Cancer_question_complicates_911_compensation_deal.html?c=y&page=2
March 30, 2010
Medical experts disagree on the question of whether exposure to 9/11 toxins may be responsible for cancers found in rescue, recovery, and clean-up workers who reponded to the World Trade Center attacks.

Doctors say more funding needed to treat 9/11 responders
http://www.newsday.com/news/printedition/longisland/ny-liwtc155802043aug15,0,3260859.story
August 19, 2008
A bill pending in Congress to continue funding for these centers is named for James Zadroga, a New York City police detective who was at Ground Zero. Rep. Tim Bishop is co-author of a new bill that would permanently fund the Long Island World Trade Center Monitoring and Treatment Program at Stony Brook University Medical Center and its counterparts such as Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan. "What that bill does is take the funding for monitoring and treatment out of the annual appropriations process and make it part of mandatory funding," he said yesterday. "A way to look at it is Medicare for people who were exposed to toxins as a result of the World Trade Center attacks, so it's an entitlement."

Florida Hospital Checks Up On Sept. 11 Responders
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/mar/11/na-local-hospital-checks-up-on-sept-11-responders/news-breaking/
March 11, 2009
A federally-funded program, administered by Logistics Health Inc.,monitors and treats 9/11 responders who live outside the New York City and New Jersey metropolitan area.

President Urged to Reappoint Coordinator For Federal 9/11 Health Programs
March 12, 2009
New York state and local labor leaders stood with Congressional representatives last week in calling for President Obama to return Dr. John Howard to his post as coordinator of the federal 9/11 health programs that treat and monitor victims of the World Trade Center disaster in 2001. Click below to read more.
President urged to reappoint Dr. John Howard

President's 2010 Budget Adds $70 Million for 9/11 Health Care
http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/wtc/html/news/05082009a.shtml
May 8, 2009
President Obama's proposed budget for fiscal year 2010 includes more than $70 million in new funding for the medical screening and treatment of people affected by 9/11. Click on link to learn more.

The New York Press Photographers Association is Conducting Survey to Determine Health Issues of Journalists Who Covered WTC Attacks
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=Cmwse_2bA9MO5Ix4FOqYsCXg_3d_3d
November 24, 2008
The New York Press Photographers Association has launched a very important survey that will determine the level of exposure that journalists incurred while covering the attack at the World Trade Center and define the level of illnesses that jounalists face as a result of that exposure. If you spent any time at the World Trade Center covering the attack on 9.11 or after, or if you know a reporter, photographer, editor, producer, technician or any other journalist who covered the story, please consider participating in the survey. To participate click on the link below.

Trials on Ground Zero Health Claims Scheduled to Begin in 2010
http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2008/12/lawsuits_brought_by_911_wtc_cl.html
December 11, 2008
Lawsuits alleging that recue and recovery workers were not issued proper safety equipment in the months following 9/11 will go to trial in early 2010.

US Senate Introduces Companion Bill to HR847 9/11 Health and Compensation Act
http://www.thestate.com/nationalpolitics/story/839421.html
June 25, 2009
The Senate bill, sponsored by New York Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, is similar in intent and content to a House bill authored in 2007 by Reps. Carolyn Maloney and Jerrold Nadler of New York City which never got out of committee. Click on link to read article.