Doctors, Democrats scrutinize September 11 dust
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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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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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In the three years since the September 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, the political meaning of the âwar on terrorâ has become increasingly clear.
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The third anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks come in the shadow of the presidential election and fears that al Qaeda is determined to disrupt the U.S. political process.
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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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Nearly half of the more than 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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NEW YORK -- Few things united this wildly diverse city more than the devastating events of Sept. 11, 2001. But, as the sixth anniversary of that dark day approaches, that sense of unity is being seriously tested amid a cacophony of controversies that has left some New Yorkers sniping at each other...
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As firefighters and police swarmed the World Trade Center the morning of Sept. 11, the city's chief medical examiner was right there with them, setting up a makeshift morgue for a casualty toll he knew would be massive.
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What with the asthma, trauma, depression and 13 medications a day, life has all but stopped for Marvin Bethea, a paramedic who was buried in the rubble of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
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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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Most of the health problems reported after the September 11, 2001 attacks have involved respiratory difficulties and mental distress, according to an American government report published on Wednesday.
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Democrats from New York and New Jersey asked on Wednesday for an investigation that could lead to criminal charges against former Environmental Protection Agency administrator Christie Whitman for breathing problems suffered by thousands after the Sept. 11 attacks.
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Democrats are renewing calls for the declassification of a CIA report documenting the agencyâs mistakes in preventing the 2001 attacks.
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Three years after the Sept. 11 attacks and subsequent anthrax scare, medical experts are still struggling with how best to handle a widespread bioterrorism attack.
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The families of some Sept. 11 victims are trying to explore how their loved ones died, but the topic of those who jumped from the World Trade Center is an especially sensitive one.
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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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A survey by The New York Times shows that those who lost a loved one in the 9/11 attacks differ from the public at large on some political and national issues.