Ailing NY Ground Zero workers demand more help
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Rescue workers with chronic illnesses they attribute to exposure to the rubble at the World Trade Center site demanded long-term support from the government on Wednesday, and one advocate feared it could become "America's Chernobyl."
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Nearly three years to the day of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, lawyers for more than 800 "Ground Zero" rescue and clean-up workers announced Monday a billion-dollar class-action lawsuit against owners of the World Trade Center for exposing the workers to allegedly toxic conditions.
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NEW YORK  - Emergency room doctors are  urging people to protect themselves from winter's deadly  companions, hypothermia and frostbite.
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Most of the 70,000 people who worked or lived near Ground Zero suffered from wheezing, shortness of breath or coughing spells after the 2001 terror attack, a report released Monday shows.
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The government has only recently begun to take a role in the care of many recovery workers who were made sick at ground zero.
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Three New York rescue workers injured in the September 11 attacks got the best treatment Cuba can offer in Michael Moore's film critique of U.S. health care, the Cuban doctors who attended them said this week.
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Workers who helped clean up after the 9/11 attacks allege they were not protected against toxins.
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By Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach  Dec. 19--Everywhere you look right now, you'll see some organization asking for assistance to help someone in need. You may even start to feel overwhelmed by all the requests.
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With time running out in the 108th session of Congress, lawmakers have been gathering at ground zero this week with a handful of relatives of Sept.
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Federal health officials have drawn up a plan for autopsies of Sept. 11 workers when they die, to determine whether they were slowly killed by their exposure to World Trade Center dust.
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Some 9/11 family members are upset over Mayor Bloomberg's decision to invite his predecessor to the ground zero ceremony.
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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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Almost a year after a devastating  earthquake in Pakistan, the United Nations called on Thursday  for more international financial help for the health sector in  the disaster zone.
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Fires and other problems made for a rough commute into the city this morning for thousands of New Jersey residents. Workers are trying to fix the problems before the evening rush.
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A bill to be introduced on the sixth anniversary of the attacks would provide medical coverage and financial compensation to anyone exposed to ground zero dust.
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Relatives of some of the World Trade Center victims rallied at ground zero Wednesday to urge the city to remove the ashen remains of their loved ones from a landfill where debris was sorted after the terrorist attack.
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NEW YORK, July 17 -- Ailing rescue workers from the World Trade Center site filed a lawsuit Tuesday  charging that a $1 billion insurance fund set up after Sept. 11, 2001, violated a congressional mandate to pay their injury claims and instead spent millions of dollars fighting those claims.