Newsday (NY) (9/10, Spangler) reports, “More than 20 years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the volume of research on responders and survivors is substantial and growing, yielding sometimes unexpected, potentially powerful revelations about the long-term physical and mental effects of exposure to disaster.” The National database of the National Library of Medicine, PubMed, “lists roughly 1,300 scientific papers about the World Trade Center with close to 60 published in the last year alone.” Some of the most recent “papers examine links between exposure to what doctors have called the ‘toxic cocktail’ of gas and dust at Ground Zero and cancer, pulmonary and cardiovascular conditions, along with trends in substance use and post-traumatic stress disorder.”
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— “9/11 first responders health: Study of how Ground Zero exposure affected workers yields powerful results, Newsday , September 10, 2023