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Enough studies we need action
In reporting that the health crisis afflicting Ground Zero rescue and recovery workers is deeper and more persistent than even they had recognized, doctors at Mount Sinai Medical Center yesterday put a rapier-fine point on the urgent need for aggressive action.
The Other Victims of Sept. 11
Nobody knows exactly how many people rushed to help after the attack on the World Trade Center five years ago. The working estimate is 40,000, and it includes not only New York firefighters, police officers, ironworkers and neighborhood volunteers but also communications workers from Chicago and rescuers from California.
Illness Persisting in 9/11 Workers, Big Study Finds
The largest health study yet of the thousands of workers who labored at ground zero shows that the impact of the rescue and recovery effort on their health has been more widespread and persistent than previously thought, and is likely to linger far into the future.
Officials Slow to Hear Claims of 9/11 Illnesses
Five years after the World Trade Center towers collapsed in a vortex of dust and ash, government officials have only recently begun to take a role in the care of many of the 40,000 responders and recovery workers who were made sick by toxic materials at ground zero.
$400M for lawyers? The sick and dying of 9-11 deserve better
WITHIN WEEKS OF 9/11, it was already clear to New York officials that Ground Zero rescue and recovery workers were serving under such hazardous conditions that the city and its cleanup contractors were likely to face more than $2 billion in damage claims.
New York Health Officials Issue Guide to 9/11 Illnesses
Days before the fifth anniversary of the terror attack on the World Trade Center, New York City health officials yesterday started mailing to every doctor in the city the first formal set of clinical guidelines to diagnose and treat physical and mental health problems related to the disaster.
9/11 Shrine, With the Tragic, Toxic Dust
It is always dangerous to disturb toxic dust, but this dust is historic, and possibly sacred. This week, a crew in hazard suits navigated a sealed bubble at the New-York Historical Society to recreate an eerie time capsule of Sept. 11, 2001, as the fifth anniversary approaches.
E.P.A. Whistle-Blower Says U.S. Hid 9/11 Dust Danger
A senior scientist at the Environmental Protection Agency has accused the agency of relying on misleading data about the health hazards of World Trade Center dust.
Protesters Urge Better Care for Those Exposed to 9/11 Dust
More than 200 people — first responders, union members and politicians — rallied at ground zero yesterday to protest the government’s response to the health effects of 9/11 and to demand comprehensive care for those possibly sickened by the World Trade Center wreckage.
Poisoned Heroes
ONE New York City firefighter recently told me about the health problems he has suffered since working at the World Trade Center site nearly five years ago: skin rashes, an inflamed colon, coughing and trouble breathing. He showed me a six-page list of the antibiotics and steroids doctors had prescribed over the years.