Since state austerity policies initiated a potable water crisis seven years ago in Flint, Michigan, public health monitoring has focused on potential developmental deficits associated with lead exposure in adolescents or ...
Apr 15, 2021
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a decrease in blood lead level (BLL) testing among young children, according to research published in the Feb. 5 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity ...
Feb 5, 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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(HealthDay)—Higher childhood blood lead level is associated with lower structural brain integrity in midlife, according to a study published in the Nov. 17 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Dec 9, 2020
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Hip fractures are one of the leading causes of hospitalization among older adults and are a strong predictor of mortality. There has been a steady and substantial decline in the incidence of hip fractures in the last four ...
Nov 11, 2020
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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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