25 Years After 9/11, Survivors Face Emerging Health Risks

9/11’s dust and ash coated their childhood. Is it still making them ill?

Much of the research on exposure to the World Trade Center residue has focused on emergency workers, but people there when they were young say their health...

25 years after 9/11, survivors face emerging health risks

Twenty-five years after the Sept. 11 attacks, health officials are still studying the effects of the tragedy, with experts warning that many survivors are excluded from long-term studies.

Two Decades After the Towers Fell, 9/11 Illnesses Keep Claiming Lives in New York

More than 8,200 members of the World Trade Center Health Program have died as of March 2025, and survivors like former volunteer EMT Mordechai Shedrowitzky continue to face serious 9/11-related illnesses decades after the attacks.

9/11 death toll keeps growing decades later as toxic exposure haunts survivors

9/11 volunteer EMT Mordechai Shedrowitzky says Ground Zero dust exposure worsened his asthma, leading to hospitalizations and a tracheobronchomalacia diagnosis years later.