WTC rescue workers still ailing, study finds
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Lingering respiratory difficulties plague nearly half of the rescue workers screened in an analysis of breathing problems after the Twin Towers&#39; collapse, according to a government report released yesterday.
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A small clinic in Manhattan that handled the cases of thousands of sickened 9/11 recovery and cleanup workers is coming under scrutiny over its performance.
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WASHINGTON - Victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks have received $38.1 billion US in compensation so far from insurance companies, the US government and charities, according to a study released Monday by the Rand Institute for Civil Justice.
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Respiratory ailments, mental trauma and other problems that arose after the Sept. 11 attacks are costing the U.S. health care system $393 million per year, according to an analysis that city officials released Tuesday.
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The faces of people trapped behind   windows high up in the World Trade Center just before it   collapsed five years ago still haunt Michael Puzziferri but the   image has only stiffened his resolve as a New York firefighter.
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(WASHINGTON) - 9/11 victims have collected more than $38 billion in compensation from insurance companies, the government and charities.
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The first findings from a massive collection of health data at Ground Zero were made public yesterday, showing that residents and emergency workers have more psychological
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More than three years after the World Trade Center was destroyed, city health officials released data yesterday from a two-year study showing that thousands of people in the vicinity of the towers on Sept.
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Emergency workers who were seriously injured and the families of those killed in the World Trade Center attacks received an average of $4.
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Stress brought on by the September 11 attacks in New York and Washington in 2001 led to heart problems for some Americans, even if they had no personal connection to the events, a study released on Monday found.
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(New York -WABC, November 22, 2004) - Shortness of breath, wheezing, persistent coughs, throat irritation, and sinus problems. They are ailments that continue to plague thousands of people who worked or lived in Lower Manhattan on September 11th, 2001.
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Staff who struggle into work when they are ill risk potentially shortening their lives, researchers believe. Some workers who do not take time off when ill had twice the rate of heart disease, the 10-year study of 10,000 civil servants showed.
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NEW YORK  - In the month following the  September 11th, 2001 attacks, there was a spate of heart rhythm  disturbances in cardiac patients -- even those living far from  the disaster sites.
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Cincinnati didn&#39;t fare well in a new study that looks at the effect of ground-level ozone on the death rate. The study, published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, suggests that
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Nearly half of the over 1,000 screened rescue workers who responded to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks suffer from new or exacerbated respiratory, mental and other health problems, according to a government report released on Thursday.
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Researchers at Mount Sinai Medical Center found that almost 70 percent of workers who helped with the cleanup suffered new or worsened respiratory symptoms.
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Hundreds of people who worked on the World Trade Center cleanup have filed a class-action lawsuit against the leaseholder of the towers and those who supervised the job, alleging they did little to protect workers from dust, asbestos and other toxins in the air.