Long-term oil disaster study still seeks participants
 

Since it began its data collection in March 2011, the Gulf Long-Term Follow-Up (GuLF) study ? a $25 million, 10-year project under the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ? has gathered more than 29,000 participants to study the health implications of handling (and exposure to) oil, dispersants and other chemicals in the cleanup operations following the BP oil disaster.


The study closes its enrollment period at the end of year, on Dec. 31, and cleanup workers, rig workers, or people who received cleanup training or were assigned to the Gulf following the disaster are all encouraged to participate to help "get a full picture of what happened during oil spill and understand how it affected people?s health," said Dr. Dale Sandler, who heads the study.? [ Read more ]

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