9/11 Health Watch

09/22/2026

https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/a-quarter-century-after-9-11-tres-piedras-resident-battles-ground-zero-illness/article_decaa126-1370-4eb6-9856-52cf9b6ca7c2.html

“As things progressively got worse, I didn’t understand what was going on," Chrystyenne Mahr said. "I didn’t understand why I was sick."

09/22/2026

https://www.altoonamirror.com/news/local-news/2026/09/local-disaster-recovery-specialist-recalls-working-9-11/

Altoona native Jim Maher remembered kissing his daughter goodbye before starting his job as Pennsylvania’s first disaster recovery specialist in September 2001. “I told her I would see her in six months, but I was gone for two years,” he said. Maher was moving into his office in Manhattan when...

09/19/2026

https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/19/health/september-11-cancer-wave

After the collapse came the dust. It billowed across Lower Manhattan in the wake of the 2001 World Trade Center terror attacks, turning people into ghosts as they trudged to safety.

09/18/2026

https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2026/09/world_trade_center_health_program

MSU’s Nadia Vizueta shares how her experience with 9/11 and later cancer diagnosis inspired her to promote the World Trade Center Health Program.

09/17/2026

https://cwa-union.org/news/afa-cwa-honors-fallen-heroes-911

On September 11, 2001, the United States suffered the deadliest terror attacks in our history as the Twin Towers complex was struck by planes that had been hijacked and diverted.

09/17/2026

https://health.mountsinai.org/blog/25-years-after-9-11-mount-sinai-continues-its-commitment-to-caring-for-first-responders-and-safeguarding-public-health/

25 Years After 9/11, Mount Sinai Continues Its Commitment to Caring for First Responders and Safeguarding Public Health Updated on Sep 16, 2026 | Community, Featured, School Like countless New Yorkers, Michael Crane, MD, MPH, has his own personal story about the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 200...

09/16/2026

https://thechiefleader.com/stories/32bj-honors-9-11-victims-launches-campaign-to-organize-50-000-security-officers,57613?newsletter=57624

Twenty-five years after 9/11, Local 32BJ of the Service Employees International Union is using the anniversary to renew its push in organizing tens of thousands of New York City security officers, arguing that the workers who help keep the city’s...

09/16/2026

https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USCDCWTCHP/bulletins/42acb24

Invitation to October Research Webinar World Trade Center Health Program sent this bulletin at 09/16/2026 08:45 AM EDT Having trouble viewing this email? View it as a Web page. Research Webinar October 8, 2026 2:00-3:30 PM ET Presentation: Evolving Cancer Characteristics Among World Trade Center Sur...

09/15/2026

09/15/2026

WASHINGTON, D.C. — This week, Congressman Andrew R. Garbarino (R-NY-02) and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) introduced bipartisan, bicameral legislation to reimburse public employee retirement systems for costs associated with accidental disability retirements and accidental deaths resulting fro...