Sept 11 responders suffer lung ailments: study
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About 70 percent of the rescue workers   who picked through the toxic debris of the World Trade Center   after the September 11 attacks suffered respiratory problems, a   study released on Tuesday said.
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Doctors treating sickened ground zero workers offered Congress a detailed diagnosis Wednesday of the ailments still affecting thousands after the Sept. 11 attacks, but warned that there's no way to determine how many more may become afflicted with life-threatening illnesses.
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Residents, workers and students who returned to Lower Manhattan after the Sept. 11 attack say that their medical problems have largely been overlooked.
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NEW YORK  - Firefighters and other  first-responders to disasters often face both immediate and  long-term psychological effects, researchers report, but early  symptoms may help identify those at greatest risk of lasting  problems.
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NEW YORK  - A smog-filled sky can make it hard to breathe, but air pollution in the home may also be hard on people with lung disease, researchers have found.
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NEW YORK  - For people with lung problems,  the air quality found in commercial airliners can produce a  drop in blood oxygen below recommended levels, Australian  researchers report.
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According to a study in Thursday&#39;s New England Journal of Medicine, air pollution not only causes long-term health problems, but might also trigger heart attacks.
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NEW YORK  - Lung disease is associated with an increased risk of mental health problems, according to findings published in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
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NEW YORK -- Felicia Dunn-Jones died of lung disease five months after Sept. 11, and last year her family asked that the city's medical examiner add her name to the death toll.
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Trapped and running out of air on the smoky 83rd floor of the World Trade Center, Melissa Doi begged the 911 operator not to hang up. "Can you stay on the line with me, please? I feel like I'm dying," Doi said.
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A rare and sometimes deadly pneumonia  has hit 18 U.S. soldiers deployed in Iraq, and Army medical  investigators are at a loss to explain the cause, according to  a study published on Tuesday.
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Ten years after their deployment, veterans of the Gulf War in 1990-1991 do not seem to be more likely than normal to develop lung or breathing problems, investigators report.
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NEW YORK  - Blasting music can be hard on  the ears and the neighbors, and now researchers say it can also  pack enough punch to collapse a lung.
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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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The city's medical examiner concluded that the misuse of pills, not the dust of ground zero, caused the lung disease that killed a man who became a nationally known example of post-Sept. 11 illness, the examiner's spokeswoman confirmed Thursday.
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Victims of the Sept. 11 attacks received &#36;38.1 billion in compensation, with insurance companies picking up the largest portion of the tab, according to a study released Monday.
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The head of the largest program tracking the health of World Trade Center site workers said several have developed rare blood cell cancers, raising fears that cancer will become a "third wave" of illnesses among those exposed to toxic dust after Sept. 11.