Largest oil-spill health study needs volunteers

Published July 23, 2012 4:32pm ET



HOUMA, La. (AP) — Scientists studying long-term effects of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are looking for 15,000 more people who helped with the cleanup, even for one day.

Nearly 25,000 former oil spill workers already have signed up for what the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences says is the largest study ever of long-term effects in oil spill workers.

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