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- initialism US National Institute of Environmental Health Science
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DHH refers cleanup workers who feel their health was impacted by the BP spill to the NIEHS, he said.
Susan Buchanan: BP Spill Workers Seek Care as Health Study Progresses Susan Buchanan 2011
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Avis Gray, state Dept. of Health and Hospitals public health administrator for Region 1, covering Plaquemines, St. Bernard, Orleans and Jefferson Parishes, said "NIEHS has met with us a number of times in the last year to let us know about their study."
Susan Buchanan: BP Spill Workers Seek Care as Health Study Progresses Susan Buchanan 2011
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Today, some 16 months after the spill, the NIEHS is still looking for cleanup workers to interview by liaising with groups on the coast.
Susan Buchanan: BP Spill Workers Seek Care as Health Study Progresses Susan Buchanan 2011
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Robichaux said at a post-spill meeting in Montegut, La.--attended by the NIH and scientists discussing the NIEHS workers' study--he stood up and asked "while millions are spent over a five-year period on studies, what's going to be done about the scores of very ill patients that I'm seeing in the meantime?"
Susan Buchanan: BP Spill Workers Seek Care as Health Study Progresses Susan Buchanan 2011
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NIEHS has previously said that the spill workers' study, announced over a year ago by NIH, was funded at $17.8 million over five years, including $6 million from BP.
Susan Buchanan: BP Spill Workers Seek Care as Health Study Progresses Susan Buchanan 2011
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"NIEHS is talking with all the local players and we're among them, as are Tulane and other universities along the Gulf Coast," she said.
Susan Buchanan: BP Spill Workers Seek Care as Health Study Progresses Susan Buchanan 2011
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Subra isn't knocking the usefulness of the NIEHS study but worries that it collects information from workers without addressing their medical needs.
Susan Buchanan: BP Spill Workers Seek Care as Health Study Progresses Susan Buchanan 2011
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NIEHS has been involved in the BP spill from the start of the disaster, Sandler said, adding "we gave safety training to more than 150,000 clean-up workers."
Susan Buchanan: BP Spill Workers Seek Care as Health Study Progresses Susan Buchanan 2011
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Last week, NIEHS epidemiology branch chief Dale Sandler said the Gulf Long-term Follow-up Study--funded by the National Institutes of Health which oversees NIEHS--should cost more than $30 million in its first five years.
Susan Buchanan: BP Spill Workers Seek Care as Health Study Progresses Susan Buchanan 2011
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The federally funded NIEHS hopes to interview thousands more from a pool of 150,000 cleanup workers, and has searched for people to interview this fall.
Susan Buchanan: BP Spill Workers Seek Care as Health Study Progresses Susan Buchanan 2011
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