9/11 News Items (11/15/25)
Arnold Korotkin
Below are summaries with URLs to news articles on the effort to ensure that the World Trade Center Health Program is fully funded. An archive of past articles year by year can by found on the Citizens for the Extension of the James Zadroga Inc. website here.
November 13, 2025 — Oncology Nurse Advisor — Lung Cancer Risk Varies Among 9/11 Responders
The risk of lung cancer varies among responders involved in rescue and recovery after the collapse of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, according to research published in JAMA Network Open.
November 12, 2025 — The Broadsheet — The Air That We Breathed: 9/11 Exposure Linked to Threefold Increase in Lung Cancer Risk
While lung cancer is covered by both the World Trade Center Health Program and the Victim Compensation Fund, no previous study has succeeded in quantifying the level of increased risk.
November 12, 2025 — New York Magazine — Working Under RFK Jr. at the CDC Is a Living Hell
It’s all part of what CDC staffers describe as the Trump administration’s bid to “rebuild” the agency into something less about science and more about Kennedy’s personal agenda, which seems founded in large part on a grudge against the agency.
November 10, 2025 — SILive.com — Kevin Reilly, retired FDNY 9/11 responder from Staten Island, dies at 67
Born and raised on Staten Island, Reilly spent his life deeply connected to the same close-knit community that shaped him.
November 6, 2025 — Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging — Reduced gray-white contrast in chronic post-traumatic stress disorder in World Trade Center responders
Results support emerging research suggesting that PTSD is associated with changes to intracortical health.
November 4, 2025 — NYCity News Service — The Lasting Cost of 9/11: Decades Later, First Responders Still Fight for Care
It’s been 24 years since the September 11th attacks, but for many of the first responders who rushed to Ground Zero, the fight is far from over.
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