I get a regular newsletter from the Environmental Health Perspective, which publishes synopses of a wide variety of studies on environmental health.
I found this of interest; it's just a summary, but addresses the Deepwater oil spill and various health issues. Of course, with any study, it's difficult to determine what other factors might have been influential, and there's always the issue of social and economic factors to consider as well as any predisposition or prior instances of the stated health issues.
The study also is only a telephone study; apparently there wasn't any medical testing done.
Article: "Depression, Mental Distress and Domestic Conflict among Louisiana Women Exposed to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the WaTCH Study."
I've truncated the URL, so you'll have to add the http and www. Otherwise the link would be affected by the filers. You can also google "ehp.niehs.nih.gov/EHP167/" and get to the site.
And with all the terrible storms we have been having lately such as so many floods, tornadoes and high winds. I know for myself, I wished more people were paying attention decades ago about global climate change and would have started to make changes to try to correct it.
I know there are forms of chelation therapy, but haven't read much about them recently or how effective they are.
I've been wondering about this very strange spring we've had. Never in my lifetime has Michigan has frosts, freezing weather or snow (which we had in some places this week), during May. How much that will affect Michigan's produce crops remains to be seen, but that would be a resulting possibility of affecting the financial health of the growers.
Unfortunately, I think there are still people in denial about climate change. My city still holds clinics on how to maintain beautiful lawns! They should be holding Victory Garden Clinics. In fact, I'm wondering if there's any kind of resurgence of promoting Victory Gardens. Maybe Michelle Obama can segue her garden promotion toward that mass movement - fighting climate change in effect is fighting a war.
Thanks for the interesting observations; the depression that could be caused by environmental damage, human induced or otherwise, would I think be a factor for trillions of people.
And there are any number of people snapping photos and taking videos so we can all see the disasters on tv or online. Disaster watching seems to be move popular with all the devices people can use to quickly snap and post and share the misery with millions of others.
im drinking rainwater and bird crap and i dont care ..
nope .
totally unrelated ;
had a good laugh while reading a girly news article this am .
a commenter on the story was advising that women should hold back on jumping in the sack with a guy friend because a good guy will patiently wait .
the next commenter clearly stated " no we wont " .
lol
i take my daily dose of humor in small bits and even go looking for it if i have to ..
My gosh, didn't we learn anything back then? I wonder how much had effected the elderly today that had lived in that area.
That could be a method used by other companies manufacturing toxic products. It wouldn't surprise me if Monsanto pulled that stunt someday.