Pediatrics
Ask the Pediatrician: What can parents do to prevent exposure to lead?
Q: What can I do to protect my family from lead exposure? Should I have my children tested?
Jan 10, 2022
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Study: Lead exposure decreases Indian children's hand-eye coordination
(Medical Xpress) -- Young Indian children exposed to lead poisoning scored low on tests that measured hand-eye coordination, a new study finds.
Aug 31, 2011
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Blood lead levels lower, but tooth decay higher in children who do not drink tap water
American children and adolescents who do not drink tap water, which is typically fluoridated, are much more likely to have tooth decay, according to a new study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. However, the ...
Nov 27, 2017
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Medical research
Scientists artificially infect mosquitoes with human malaria to advance treatment
A vector refers to an organism that carries and transmits an infectious disease, as mosquitoes do malaria.
Jan 14, 2021
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Pediatrics
Machine learning models identify kids at risk of lead poisoning
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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Higher lead in topsoil boosts probability of cognitive difficulties in five-year-old boys
Soil contamination has long been recognized as a contributor to lead exposure in people and is now a health concern worldwide. In a new study, researchers sought to estimate the causal effects of exposure to lead in topsoil ...
Apr 10, 2019
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FDA warns of toxic lead in cinnamon products
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a health advisory warning consumers that six brands of ground cinnamon are tainted with lead.
Mar 7, 2024
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Early childhood exposure to lead in drinking water associated with increased teen delinquency risk
Exposure to lead in drinking water, especially from private wells, during early childhood is associated with an increased risk of being reported for delinquency during teenage years, according to a new study by Indiana University ...
Feb 1, 2022
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Pediatrics
No link between childhood lead levels, later criminality
(HealthDay)— Exposure to higher levels of lead during early childhood can affect neurological development—but does that mean affected kids are doomed to delinquency?
Dec 27, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Lead acts to trigger schizophrenia
Mice engineered with a human gene for schizophrenia and exposed to lead during early life exhibited behaviors and structural changes in their brains consistent with schizophrenia. Scientists at Columbia University's Mailman ...
May 31, 2013
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