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Metro Briefing | New York: Manhattan: Care For Students Near Ground Zero
Representative Jerrold L. Nadler, Borough President Scott M. Stringer and Councilman Alan J. Gerson, all Manhattan Democrats, held a news conference yesterday at Stuyvesant High School to urge the federal government to pay for research, medical screenings and health insurance for students who attended school in Lower Manhattan after the 9/11 terrorist attack.
Manhattan: Plan for 9/11 Autopsies
Federal health officials have drawn up a national plan for autopsies and tissue sampling of 9/11 workers who die years later in order to determine the effect of exposure to World Trade Center dust.
Health Problems Remain for WTC Rescue Workers
Concern is growing about the health problems showing up in thousands of police, firefighters, construction workers and volunteers who took part in the rescue and cleanup efforts following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center.
Our Slow Death
ON Sept. 11, 2001, I was a lieutenant in the Port Authority Police Department. After the attack, I became the night commander of the rescue and recovery operation at ground zero, charged with recovering the remains of my fellow officers and the thousands of other victims of the World Trade Center collapse.
City Announces Plan to Deal With Health Problems Relating to Ground Zero
Facing criticism for its response to health problems related to the Sept. 11 terror attack, the city is creating a wide-ranging program to evaluate, treat and monitor those who may have been sickened by their exposure to hazardous materials at ground zero, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said yesterday.
Veterans of Sept. 11
One of the worst things about listening to those who rushed to ground zero after the attacks on Sept. 11 is that you can barely hear their stories. For many, the lungs hardly work. The cough, the ragged breathing, the confusion and even the bitterness make it hard for some of those who labored in that toxic cloud to explain how they feel forgotten.
Congress Criticizes Federal Response to Illnesses After 9/11 and Seeks More Spending
After listening to recovery workers at ground zero and downtown residents emotionally describe how they had been ignored and insulted as they sought help for health problems after 9/11, members of a Congressional subcommittee roundly criticized the federal response yesterday and called for sharply increased medical spending.
New Yorkers, in a Poll, Doubt Safety of 9/11 Air
New Yorkers believe the air quality in Lower Manhattan after the Sept. 11 attacks was more dangerous than officials said at the time, according to a New York Times/CBS News Poll.
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.