This web resource provides comprehensive info about all WTC health issues.

As the latest step in its initiative to address the potential health effects of World Trade Center (WTC) exposure, the City of New York has launched a new website designed to consolidate all of the latest information about 9/11-related health issues, including where to go for free treatment and medication, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced last week.

The new resource, accessible through the city's official website, www.nyc.gov, provides comprehensive information about all WTC health-related programs, including the three WTC Centers of Excellence, which provide state-of-the-art testing and treatment of people exposed to the WTC disaster, as well as research findings about the different groups of people affected by 9/11 health issues, including rescue and recovery workers, city employees, and residents. Links to financial assistance, social-service, and environmental groups working on 9/11-related issues also are available, as are resources for health professionals.

"There is much about World Trade Center health effects that we still don't know, and may not know for many years," Bloomberg said in his weekly radio address last Friday. "But one thing we do know is that 9/11 was an attack on our entire country and the federal government must take responsibility for everyone whose health was harmed by this act of war against our nation," he continued. "We're going to do our part…and we're going to keep working to ensure that the federal government does theirs."

The web resource is the most recent initiative to result from a panel Bloomberg convened last year to conduct an investigation of WTC-related health issues and determine what more could be done to help those who are sick. Other core recommendations made by the panel have already been implemented, including a commitment of $100 million in new funding to 9/11 health programs, the appointment of a WTC Health Coordinator to organize and deliver information to all those with physical and mental health issues, and the creation of a medical working group to review clinical and research findings on the potential health effects of WTC exposure.

To access the new 9/11-related health issues website, please click here.