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Extensive press coverage of 9/11 study

A deluge of national media coverage followed publication of a March 28 New England Journal of Medicine study that measures the psychological impact of Sept. 11 on New Yorkers. The study, whose authors include three New York Academy of Medicine researchers, was prominently described in newspapers, on television and on radio.

Articles appeared in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Boston Globe, the Daily News and other newspapers; on television news programs including NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, Channel 5, Channel 11, and MSNBC; on radio; and even in foreign-language media outlets.

Dr. Sandro Galea, lead author of the 9-11 study, explains findings to media.

Links to a selection of the stories are below:

Bloomberg News reported that "One of every five New Yorkers living south of Canal Street in Lower Manhattan suffered psychological trauma related to the World Trade Center attack, according to the first major mental health study of Sept. 11."

Newsday's Jimmy Breslin wrote that "Researchers from the New York Academy of Medicine, in a highly responsible and needed survey of New York people, showed that more than 13 percent of downtown Manhattan residents had post-traumatic stress disorder after the 9/11 attack." The New York Times reported: "In the aftermath of the World Trade Center collapse, tens of thousands of Manhattan

Study co-author Dr. David Vlahov, director of CUES, speaks to Channel 7's Stacy Sager.

residents suffered emotional difficulties severe enough to warrant psychiatric treatment, according to a report in the new issue of The New England Journal of Medicine." The Associated Press quoted the Academy's Dr. Sandro Galea, lead author of the study: "New Yorkers together went through a severe trauma...there are tremendous mental health needs."

Posted on 03/29/2002

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