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Hirsch must explain

Medical Examiner Dr. Charles Hirsch has rendered a stunning opinion – an opinion that demands detailed explanation – that Detective James Zadroga’s death had nothing to do with his service at Ground Zero.

Smearing a hero of 9/11

There is mounting evidence that the city’s chief medical examiner libeled the memory of Detective James Zadroga by ruling that the cop’s long, arduous service at Ground Zero had nothing to do with his tragic death. Dr. Charles Hirsch appears to have committed a gross injustice that no apology can ever set right.

New York’s duty to Ground Zero dead

It is inevitable that death will come to the men and women who responded to Ground Zero and were sickened. And, just as inevitably, those left behind may wonder whether exposure to the poisoned air in the end proved fatal.

METRO BRIEFING | NEW YORK; Manhattan: Asthma Linked To Trade Center

Children who inhaled dust from the collapsed World Trade Center may be twice as likely to develop asthma as children who were not exposed, according to preliminary findings released yesterday by the City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

Metro Briefing: New York: Manhattan: Environmental Tests Downtown

Initial tests at 53 apartments and in the common areas of nine buildings within 1,500 feet of ground zero found three dust samples that were contaminated with asbestos above safe levels and 71 samples that were laced with lead that exceeded federal standards, environmental officials said yesterday.

Death Ruled Not Homicide for Officer at Ground Zero

New York City’s chief medical examiner has decided not to reclassify the death of a police officer who worked at ground zero as a homicide linked to the attack on the twin towers because the officer did not arrive at the site until Sept. 13, 2001.

Give us clarity, Mike

One thing was clear from Mayor Bloomberg yesterday regarding how, in his words, he will find “ways to pay tribute and to memorialize those whose lives were lost because of the work that they did down at Ground Zero after the terrible tragedy of 9/11”: The mayor is not interested in the least in seeking the guidance of experts.

Medical Examiner, Differing on Ground Zero Case, Stands His Ground

No New Yorker is privy to as many secrets of the dead as Dr. Charles S. Hirsch. During nearly two decades as New York City’s chief medical examiner, he has quietly overseen autopsies on more than 100,000 people, hoping to learn something more about the way they lived, and why they died.

Set fair standards for judging WTC deaths

Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Charles Hirsch sparked an uproar when he ruled on Detective James Zadroga’s cause of death. Although Zadroga had spent hundreds of hours working 9/11 rescue and recovery, although Zadroga had been grievously sickened by inhaling the Ground Zero dust, Hirsch found another reason for the fatality.

Mayor Calls Detective Hero but Adds to the Confusion

After a week of intense criticism, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg retreated yesterday from previous remarks and said a retired police detective who died at age 34 after working hundreds of hours at ground zero was indeed a hero.