Doctors: 9/11 illnesses may not appear for decades
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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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Rural America is having a hard time finding doctors and since 9/11 it's been more difficult to import foreign physicians to fill the gap.
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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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Three years after Sept. 11, emergency radios aren't linked for most first responders.
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Americans who said they became anxious and stressed after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks Â some just from watching the collapse of the twin towers on television Â reported higher rates of heart disease up to three years later, researchers said.
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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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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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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 threat of terrorism against the United States remains chillingly lethal five years after 9/11, and officials predict another massive attack is not a matter of if &#151; but when.
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NEW YORK  - The U.S. is unlikely to meet its goal for eliminating tuberculosis (TB) by 2010, primarily because of high rates of latent (dormant) TB infection in certain population subgroups, according to a nationwide survey.
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Experts say the causes of 'Gulf war syndrome' will probably never be known.
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New York City's health care system is not prepared for a major disaster such as a large-scale attack, hurricane or pandemic, health care and disaster planning experts said.
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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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SUNDAY, Nov. 21 (HealthDayNews) -- Like the sequel to a bad movie, some medical conditions can show up years after an initial infection or injury. Many of them are every bit as bad -- or worse -- the second time around.
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NEW YORK -- Retiree Gene O'Brien hurried to the World Trade Center site after Sept. 11, 2001, and volunteered to help shuttle supplies to police and fire workers. Some days, his only identification to get into the disaster site was a tattoo on his forearm.
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By DAVID BAUDER   Associated Press writer  NEW YORK -- The searing film of a plane slicing into the World Trade Center and exploding into a fireball, and the towers collapsing in a cloud of dust, will never be forgotten by those who lived through Sept. 11, 2001.
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No one ordered Glenn Winuk to grab a medical bag and rush into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. He was not in uniform, and he made his living as a lawyer, not an EMT.