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Mount Sinai researchers are the first to identify heart abnormalities in World Trade Center workers
Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine are presenting more than 20 ground-breaking studies at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) 59th annual scientific session (ACC.10) in Atlanta. Their research includes data showing that the World Trade Center (WTC) collapse has caused potentially dangerous heart problems in responders on-site.
Tue, March 16th, 2010 @ 12:11pm
Jacqueline Moline, MD, Vice Chair, Department of Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine leads The World Trade Center Medical Monitoring and Treatment Program. The Program provided federal funding for two WTC heart studies, of which Dr. Moline is the primary investigator. Lori Croft, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Mary Ann McLaughlin, MD, Associate Professor, Medicine and Cardiology, conducted the analyses of 1,236 workers who participated in the program from January 2008 to June 2009.
Dr. Croft's study, "First Documentation of Cardiac Dysfunction Following Exposure to the World Trade Center Disaster," showed that responders have impaired diastolic function of both the right and left ventricle, meaning their hearts do not relax normally, which can put them at risk for heart problems such as shortness of breath and heart failure. More than 50 percent had abnormal relaxation of the left ventricle compared to only seven percent of people of a similar age in the general population. Greater than 60 percent had isolated impaired diastolic function in the right ventricle of the heart, which pumps blood to the lungs.
Dr. Croft and her colleagues suspect that debris inhaled from the WTC site may have contributed to these heart abnormalities, however, caution that there is no comparison data of people working in a similar urban community plagued by air pollution and life and emotional stresses who were not exposed to the WTC.
Lawmakers Push For Lifetime Healthcare for 9/11 Responders, Say $657M Settlement Not Enough
Tue, March 16th, 2010 @ 3:02am
Sept. 11 first responder Marvin Bethea, at a 2007 press conference, displayed the medications he took following work at the World Trade Center. (Marvin Bethea/Getty Images)
MANHATTAN — Federal lawmakers claim the city's $657 million settlement with ailing 9/11 first responders doesn't cover all their needs and will instead push for lifetime healthcare coverage with a bill that will be introduced Monday.
Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-Manhattan/Astoria), and Jerrold Nadler (D-Manhattan/Brooklyn) have co-authored the $11 billion James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, which will go before a House subcommittee Monday.
The bill, which was named after a New York cop who died in 2006 after inhaling toxic World Trade Center dust, would provide medical monitoring and treatment to WTC responders and community members for the rest of their life.
At a Ground Zero rally, Nadler said that the legislation would give continuing health care as opposed to a one-time payment to "the thousands and thousands who lost their health at the World Trade Center.
Shame on pols for letting 9/11 compensation fund expire - it’s time to treat victims fairly
Sun, March 14th, 2010 @ 6:43pm
Ground Zero workers surround the last remaining steel beam of the World Trade Center. The beam was cut down on May 28, 2002, marking the end of the nearly 9 month-long cleanup.
Tear it up.
Tear up the settlement for the 9/11 workers and revive that rarest of government programs, one actually efficient and responsive to the needs of those it was supposed to serve.
"They almost got you at a point of exhaustion," retired Fire Marshal Kevin Larkin said outside a hearing in Manhattan Federal Court on Friday. "What are you going to do?"
That program was the federal September 11th Victim Compensation Fund. It disbursed more than $7 billion to 5,560 claimants, while generating overhead costs of only 3%.
The fund was prepared to continue indefinitely, rightly predicting that people might not fall ill until years after exposure to the Pit's poisons and carcinogens.
But such foresight and efficiency had no place in government.
Closing Guantanamo Bay part of military trial deal for Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, four 9/11 thugs
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed won't be returning to the scene of his unspeakable crime.
Sat, March 6th, 2010 @ 11:18pm
Feds have been quietly ordered to cease all preparations for a 9/11 trials at lower Manhattan's Foley Square courthouse.
Feds involved in security preparations for lower Manhattan's Foley Square courthouse have been quietly ordered to cease all preparations for a 9/11 trial blocks from where the twin towers fell, the Daily News has learned.
Senior aides will soon urge President Obama to reverse Attorney General Eric Holder and prosecute the terrorists in a military courtroom, aides confirmed Friday.
A final decision on just where, and exactly how, KSM and four other Sept. 11 thugs will be tried is still weeks away as the government tries to untangle a legal and political mess that has dragged on for seven years.
President Obama, AG Eric Holder face political embarrassment in 9/11 terror trial shuffle
Sat, March 6th, 2010 @ 11:08pm
New Yorkers protest holding the 9/11 terror trials for mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four others in New York City.
WASHINGTON - It's difficult to imagine a decision so bungled that almost everybody associated with it looks utterly foolish.
The decision to hold the 9/11 terror trials in a lower Manhattan federal courtroom - and then, apparently, to move them elsewhere under a military tribunal - has showered all the combatants with political embarrassment.
"This is Classic 101 Boobery," a well-placed Democratic source lamented. "They all look awful."
That would include President Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder, a fingerpointing White House staff, Republican opportunists, New York City officials and many in the city's congressional delegation.
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