More than 10,000 participants have joined the GuLF STUDY

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

NIH seeking thousands more oil spill workers to find potential health effects of spill

Nearly two years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, more than 10,000 cleanup workers and volunteers have enrolled in the Gulf Long-term Follow-up (GuLF) STUDY, a national effort to determine if the oil spill led to physical or mental health problems. Reaching the GuLF STUDY's target goal of 55,000 participants would make it the largest health study of its kind.