Liz Neporent

1 week ago | abcnews.go.com | Liz Neporent

The Health and Human Services Department said it can resume enrollment, too. Firefighters amid the rubble of the World Trade Centre following the 9/11 attacks, Sept. 11, 2001, in New York. Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty ImagesThe World Trade Center Health Program is once again certifying illnesses linked to the 9/11 terrorist attacks after a chaotic few weeks that left some cancer patients, including first responders, without access to treatment.

2 weeks ago | abcnews.go.com | Liz Neporent

The World Trade Center Health Program is at a standstill, its director said. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrandspeaks at a press conference on April 6, 2025, calling on the Trump administration fully restore key staff for the World Trade Center Health Program. Ron Adar/Sopa Images via Sipa USA via APA 9/11 responder with life-threatening pancreatic cancer was told this week that he couldn't start chemotherapy.

2 weeks ago | abcnews.go.com | Liz Neporent

Staffing cuts may prevent a 9/11 health care program from providing timely care. New York City firefighters hug each other during rescue operations at the World Trade Center after two hijacked planes crashed into the Twin Towers, on Sept. 11, 2001, in New York. Ron Agam/Getty Images, FILEThe 9/11 health program that monitors and treats thousands of people exposed to toxic dust during the 2001 terrorist attack is under threat — again.

1 month ago | abcnews.go.com | Liz Neporent |Jenny Wagnon Courts |Lucien Bruggeman

President Trump's NIH funding cuts had threatened to derail the promising trial. ByLiz Neporent, Jenny Wagnon Courts, and Lucien BruggemanNIH researcher Dr. Steven Rosenberg is seen in his lab. ABC NewsA promising government-funded cancer trial is back in motion after budgetary and workforce cuts imposed by the Trump administration threatened to derail its progress, the trial's lead researcher told ABC News on Thursday.

2 months ago | thepulseofnh.com | Youri Benadjaoud |Mary Kekatos |Liz Neporent |Megan Forrester

(NEW YORK) -- Flu activity remains "elevated" in the United States but is starting to show signs of abating, according to new federal data published Friday. The 2024-25 flu season was classified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as a "high" severity season overall and for all age groups, making it the firstseason since 2017-2018. During the week ending Feb.