Health Impact from 9/11 Extensive, Government Says
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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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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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Most states in the US are still ill-prepared to cope with a bioterror attack or other public health emergency, even after a surge in federal spending for such efforts since the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks.
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A lengthy account of the Sept. 11 attacks has been put online by the Library of Congress in the form of nearly 170 audio and video interviews, totaling 40 hours, with photos, drawings, written narratives and poems.
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Federal aviation officials received dozens of warnings before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks about Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida, including some that mentioned airline hijackings or suicide attacks, The New York Times reported.
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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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It&#39;s been more than three years since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, but it&#39;s only on leaving office that Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson tells us how vulnerable the nation&#39;s food supply is.
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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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A stark assessment has found that the overall terrorist threat has grown since the Sept. 11 attacks.
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News Advisory:   WHAT:  The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, resulted in the collapse of the World Trade Center and extensive damage to the Pentagon.
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The nation&#39;s public health system remains woefully unprepared to respond to a crisis, despite repeated government warnings about the possibility of bioterrorism or another health
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A patchwork of post-September 11 health screening programs will not detect increases in more serious, long-term illnesses like cancer, experts told Congress Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON -- 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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For the 15th time, a public health organization on Monday is releasing its assessment of the health of the nation, and of each state, as measured by a composite of 18 variables.
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The New York City Health Department issued long-awaited instructions to doctors Thursday for treating and detecting illnesses related to the Sept. 11 attacks, including a warning that smoking can make those health problems worse.
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Pilar Albarado spent five months  after September 11, 2001, cleaning pulverized building material  from apartment buildings and offices near the site of the World  Trade Center. A chronic cough came two years later, and she is  also battling asthma, memory loss and acid reflux.
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Air pollution clearly causes  immediate damage to the heart, including heart attacks, but its  short-term effects on asthma and other respiratory symptoms are  harder to document, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.