Tuesday, September 7, 2010

07 Sep 2010: NIH to Launch Gulf Oil Spill Health Study

07 Sep 2010: NIH to Launch Gulf Oil Spill Health Study
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/news/releases/2010/gulf-study.cfm

"BP will provide additional funds for research

The National Institutes of Health will launch a multi-year study this fall to look at the potential health effects from the oil spill in the Gulf region. The Gulf Worker Study, announced by NIH Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., in June, is in response to the largest oil spill in U.S. history, caused by the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. Dr. Collins pledged $10 million in NIH funding for the study's initial phases."

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