(CBS/AP) The father of a police detective who died after breathing in dust from ground zero wreckage told lawmakers Friday that the government has spent too much time studying the health problems that killed his son.

“We must make the first priority the treatment of the heroes to improve their heath and save their lives. The studies should be secondary,” Joseph Zadroga, father of New York Police Department Detective James Zadroga, told a House subcommittee hearing near the World Trade Center.

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