Category Archives: Health Issues

9/11 responder Charles Wassil, former Peekskill detective, dies at 52

By Kimberly | Published: May 2, 2013

By Terence Corcoran Lower Hudson Journal PEEKSKILL — Charles “Charlie” Wassil, a former Marine and Peekskill police detective who helped search for 9/11 remains, died Wednesday at Hudson Valley Hospital Center. He was 52. The cause was sarcoidosis, an inflammatory disease he contracted after responding to Ground Zero, where he spent hours searching for victims and [...]

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Cancer rate 15% higher than normal for 9/11 responders: study

By Kimberly | Published: April 23, 2013

By Heidi Evans New York Daily News Mount Sinai Hospital’s World Trade Center Health Program has found an increase primarily in three types of the disease, thyroid, prostate and blood cancers. Cancer among 9/11 responders is 15% higher than among people not exposed to the Ground Zero toxins, a study by Mount Sinai Hospital’s World [...]

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Boston Hospitals Lean on 9/11 Lessons in Swift Response

By Kimberly | Published: April 17, 2013

Drew Armstrong & Michelle Fay Cortez, Bloomberg News  Once a year, Boston hospitals work together to train for the unthinkable. When it happened during the Boston Marathon, they were ready. With emergency teams already on hand because of the race, the city’s emergency rooms “went into auto-mode,” said Mark Pearlmutter, chief of emergency medicine at [...]

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