News tagged with wtc attacks
High self-reported asthma rates in Chinatown, N.Y.
Research conducted seven years after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center (WTC) in New York City (NYC) found that children attending the socioeconomically and ethnically homogeneous elementary school closest to ...
May 19, 2009 |
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Study of WTC responders: PTSD and respiratory illness linked
(Medical Xpress) -- More than 10 years after 9/11, when thousands of rescue and recovery workers descended on the area surrounding the World Trade Center in the wake of the terrorist attacks, a research team led by Benjamin ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 23, 2011 |
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10 years after attacks on World Trade Center, human health cost is still being counted
The World Trade Center disaster exposed nearly half a million people to hazardous chemicals, environmental toxins, and traumatic events. According to research published in the December 2011 issue of Elsevier-published journal ...
Dec 12, 2011 |
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Asthma rates double for WTC first responders
The American Journal of Industrial Medicine recently published a study showing that World Trade Center (WTC) responders suffer from asthma at more than twice the rate of the general U.S. population as a result of their exposu ...
Dec 02, 2011 |
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The political effects of existential fear
Why did the approval ratings of President George W. Bush— who was perceived as indecisive before September 11, 2001—soar over 90 percent after the terrorist attacks? Because Americans were acutely aware of their ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 18, 2011 |
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First long-term study of WTC workers shows widespread health problems
In the first long-term study of the health impacts of the World Trade Center (WTC) collapse on September 11, 2001, researchers at The Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York have found substantial and persistent mental and ...
Sep 02, 2011 |
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World Trade Center-exposed NYC firefighters face increased cancer risk
In the largest cancer study of firefighters ever conducted, research published in this week's 9/11 Special Issue of The Lancet found that New York City firefighters exposed to the 9/11 World Trade Center (WTC) disaster site w ...
Sep 02, 2011 |
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WTC memorial guide of names debuts as iPhone app
(AP) -- The arrangement of nearly 3,000 names at the World Trade Center memorial is now available as a free iPhone app.
Aug 24, 2011 |
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WTC attacks increase subsequent firefighter retirements
A new study published in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine reveals that the WTC attacks affected the health of the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) resulting in more post-9/11 retirements than expected.
Aug 12, 2011 |
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More than 3,000 survivors of the WTC attacks experience long-term post-traumatic stress disorder
Nearly 10 years after the greatest human-made disaster in U.S. history-- the destruction of the World Trade Center (WTC) towers -- there has been little research documenting the attacks' consequences among those most directly ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 07, 2011 |
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Study of 'sarcoid-like' granulomatous pulmonary disease finds elevated rates in WTC responders
Mount Sinai researchers coordinating the largest clinical study to date of "Sarcoid Like" Granulomatous Pulmonary Disease in World Trade Center (WTC) responders have found that the rate of the condition was increased in this ...
Jan 06, 2011 |
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