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Study Links Rescuers’ Lung Ailment to Trade Center Collapse
In the first clinical study to clearly link World Trade Center dust to serious and sometimes fatal diseases, doctors have found that the number of New York City rescue and recovery workers with a rare type of lung-scarring condition soared in the year after the trade center collapsed.
E.P.A. Is Urged to Widen Focus on 9/11 Health Effects
Health experts, environmental advocates and politicians called on the federal Environmental Protection Agency yesterday to address contamination and medical problems in Brooklyn and other areas outside Lower Manhattan resulting from the Sept. 11 attack.
City Releases Work Records for Officer Who Died
A search by the city of its files concerning Cesar A. Borja, the New York City police officer whose death from lung disease was held up as an example of the medical problems affecting thousands of ground zero workers and volunteers, found no record that he worked in Lower Manhattan until Dec. 24, 2001, more than three months after the 9/11 attack.
And the fight goes on
Much has changed for the better since the Daily News published the first installment of “9/11: The Forgotten Victims” last July 23, but much remains to be done for the men and women who suffered the tragic consequences of service at Ground Zero
City Releases Work Records for Officer Who Died
A search by the city of its files concerning Cesar A. Borja, the New York City police officer whose death from lung disease was held up as an example of the medical problems affecting thousands of ground zero workers and volunteers, found no record that he worked in Lower Manhattan until Dec. 24, 2001, more than three months after the 9/11 attack.
$4.7 Million Raised to Treat Those Who Fell Ill After 9/11
The 9/11 Neediest Medical Campaign to help those who developed serious illnesses after the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center has collected $300,000 since February for a total of nearly $4.7 million, fund officials announced.
Washington must act on ‘human disaster’
Serving with the Morris County, N.J., sheriff’s office, Jeffrey Endean arrived at Ground Zero on 9/11 when, he remembers, The Pile “looked like a war zone or a peek into hell.” It was both.
Bloomberg Seeks U.S. Aid for Treatment of 9/11 Illnesses
Testifying at a Senate hearing on Wednesday, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg pleaded for at least $150 million in annual federal aid to monitor and treat thousands of people who became ill after being exposed to dust and debris at ground zero.
Feds to responders: Blah, blah, blah, blah
Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt dispatched a top aide last week to brief a congressional subcommittee about federal efforts on behalf of the forgotten victims of 9/11 – and proved just how anemic those efforts remain.
Ground Zero Victims
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has finally joined the urgent campaign to get Washington to care for the responders who helped New Yorkers after the Sept. 11 attacks. Many responders — and people who studied, lived or worked around the World Trade Center — are seriously ill, and Mr. Bloomberg can play an important role in making the federal government take responsibility for them.