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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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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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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from new or exacerbated respiratory, mental and other health problems, according to a government report. officers and volunteers show persistent effects from environmental toxins and psychological stress.
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The decline in U.S. air travel that followed the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks delayed the onset of that year's annual flu outbreak and slowed its spread around the country, according to a new analysis that could help health officials decide whether to impose flight restrictions in the event of a global...
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The Bush administration said Thursday it will continue to help sick Sept. 11 workers, but would not say what their long-term health needs might cost.
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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 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.
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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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Life expectancy has hit record levels, but there are huge variations in the number of those years spent healthy.
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Terrorist attacks affect people's mental health even when they are not directly involved, experts say.
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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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The Sept. 11 attacks on America forced Prime Minister Tony Blair's government to ponder a troubling question: Could terrorists pull off something similar, or even worse, in London or another big British city? The answer, they concluded, was yes.
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More than five years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the government cannot show how the $5 billion given to public health departments has better prepared the country for a bioterrorism attack or flu pandemic.
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The attacks of September 11, 2001, reshaped the face of the nation and the course of history. Our lives and the lives of those to come -- not just here in New York or the United States, but around the globe -- have changed forever.
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NEW YORK  - There is an increased incidence of sarcoidosis and "sarcoid-like" granulomatous pulmonary disease (SLGPD) among Fire Department of New York (FDNY) members who were rescue workers in the World Trade Center disaster, according to findings published in the medical journal Chest.
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NEW YORK The families or loved ones of civilians killed in the Sept. 11 attacks received, on average, $3.1 million in government and charitable awards.