Can a link between the dust and disease be proved with scientific certainty?

Medical Views of 9/11's Dust Show Big Gaps
New York Times October 24, 2006
By Anthony DePalma

In 2004, Kenneth R. Feinberg, special master of the federal Sept. 11 Victim Compensation Fund, awarded $2.6 million to the family of a downtown office worker who died from a rare ( Read more... )

you all should watch last night's episode of the colbert report (which is on repeated 3 times during today) me and my bff garima are on it for 2 glorious seconds ( Read more... )

i have no one to keep me company. everyone is gone today, except the secretary, who i don't really like.  all i've done is answer the phone and a whole lot of googling and browsing for shoes online.

now that the weather is cooler, i've been taking walks into tribeca during my lunch hour and decided i want to live there, should i ever become a ( Read more... )

i spent most of the morning (8:30am-11:30am) filling out forms for my new position at human resources and at the city's medical office.  there is something about filling out forms that exhausts me and annoys me, because they are not as black-and-white as they seem.  they are complicated, in depth questions that are disguised in simple yes-or-no ( Read more... )

Clinical guidelines aimed at physicians treating patients exposed to the WTC were released late last week by the NYC Dept of Health, nearly 5 years after the 9/11 attacks. Although it sounds like good news, the release of the guidelines was not well-received among labor unions, residents, and other WTC medical programs, who all said the guidelines ( Read more... )

my newest job at work: to take our 4 filing cabinets of newspaper articles on 9/11, photocopy all of them, punch holes into them, and put them into binders.  we have saved what seems like every single news article that has been published on 9/11 in local papers and websites over the past 5 years.  while going through them all i started writing down ( Read more... )

coming back to the city after a week-and-a-half vacation is like waking up from a dream.  you don't really know what is real and what was imagined, you look around dazed, confused, tired.  but then you realize where you are.  last night on the subway i felt lost, but then slowly, almost reluctantly, i could feel myself tuning into the rhythm and ( Read more... )

From today's Newsday:
Analysis of 9/11 Firefighters, rescuers exposed to WTC dust fundings a significant drop in respiratory function

Respiratory function has been so severely compromised in some World Trade Center rescuers that even as the fifth anniversary of the attack approaches, experts are reporting a dramatic aging effect in the lungs of ( Read more... )

just wanted to post some stories about the unbelievable weather we had right here in westchester last week.  this was more than just summer thunderstorms, global warming perhaps?

tornado:
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=weather&id=4363255

microburst:
http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060720/NEWS02/607200369/1018

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we just got a box full of 700+ envelopes shipped back to us from the post office, all with updated address of our enrollees.  now i have to enter all those address in the computer, which will probably take me all summer.  not that updating addresses isn't fun in its own way.  i like to think about why people moved.  a lot of our people are moving ( Read more... )