The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its blood lead reference value—the level at which children ages 1–5 are considered to have high exposure to lead. Since 2012, this threshold had been set ...
Nov 8, 2021
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Lead levels in drinking water that are permissible by the Environmental Protection Agency have detrimental health effects in individuals with kidney disease, according to a new study. The findings appear in an upcoming issue ...
Jul 15, 2021
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Japanese and Zambian scientists have shown that environmental lead poisoning in children affects not only their own health and wellbeing, but the vitality and mental health of their mothers, as well.
Jun 30, 2021
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(HealthDay)—A leading medical group is offering testing guidelines for children with autistic behaviors.
Jun 21, 2021
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Decades after the industrialized world largely eliminated lead poisoning in children, the potent neurotoxin still lurks in one in three children globally. A new study in Bangladesh by researchers at Stanford University and ...
Jan 14, 2021
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While many people think of lead poisoning as a problem of the past, chronic exposure still occurs in some communities that may be missed in limited screening programs for children's blood lead levels. Now researchers at Emory ...
Oct 26, 2020
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A new IU study examining effects of low-level developmental lead exposure in mice could explain why some people dependent on alcohol return to using.
Oct 13, 2020
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Every third child in the world has too much lead in their body, according to a report from UNICEF and Pure Earth. Norwegian children are also affected.
Sep 24, 2020
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Families skipping or delaying pediatric appointments for their young children because of the pandemic are missing out on more than vaccines. Critical testing for lead poisoning has plummeted in many parts of the country.
Sep 16, 2020
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Machine learning can help public health officials identify children most at risk of lead poisoning, enabling them to concentrate their limited resources on preventing poisonings rather than remediating homes only after a ...
Sep 16, 2020
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