"WTC Cough": Time to Draw Breath (from Spiked-Online)
By Todd Seavey
Publish Date : Friday, September 8, 2006
By Todd Seavey.  The largest study yet of workers who participated in the rescue efforts and clean-up at the site of the World Trade Center attack has been reported as evidence that a spectrum of mysterious health problems were caused by the fumes from the disaster.  In a sense that's true, in that we don’t know the precise nature and cause of all the respiratory ailments reported five years later by participants in the study.  But that is partly a function of the study’s strangeness rather than the fumes' strangeness. Just as the media and politicians should take care not to heighten terrorism’s impact by exaggerating the risk it poses to the public, so too should we be cautious about making an already-nervous population think they have been "poisoned"...  Read Full >>

WTC Health Czar? No! (from the New York Post)
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Type : Editorial
Publish Date : Monday, January 30, 2006
Many who worked at the World Trade Center site in the days after 9/11 now have ongoing medical and psychological problems as a result of their heroic service. But the latest demands for a federal strongman to oversee all health-related monitoring and treatment of the many thousands who served at Ground Zero are nothing short of political posturing, aiming to exploit rather than assist the sick and suffering victims and rescuers...  Read Full >>

Media Alert
Type : Articles
Publish Date : Wednesday, September 17, 2003
The American Council on Science and Health invites you to a press conference to announce the publication of A Citizen's Guide to Terrorism Preparedness and Response and a local version of the book, New Yorker's Guide to Terrorism Preparedness and Response.  Read Full >>

A Citizen's Guide to Terrorism Preparedness and Response:
Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear
Type : Book
Publish Date : Monday, September 1, 2003
The attacks of September 11, 2001 taught three important lessons about international terrorists: 1) They stop at nothing. 2) They like the dramatic. 3) They intend mass casualties.  Read Full >>

New Yorker's Guide to Terrorism Preparedness and Response:
Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear
Type : Book
Publish Date : Monday, September 1, 2003
The attacks of September 11, 2001 taught three important lessons about international terrorists: 1) They stop at nothing. 2) They like the dramatic.3) They intend mass casualties.  Read Full >>