Carmakers have known for decades that battery recycling was poisoning people abroad. Nigeria’s crackdown is an effort to ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KAIT/Edited News Release) - National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week highlights how parents, caregivers, and communities can lower children’s exposure to lead and avoid its serious ...

Nearly twice as many Erie County children were diagnosed with elevated levels of lead in their blood in 2022 than the previous year. Tests showed that 348 county children younger than 6 had elevated ...

Chronic, low-level lead poisoning is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease in adults and cognitive deficits in children, even at levels previously thought to be safe, Low-level lead poisoning ...

For years, Leah Bartlo has been at the forefront of addressing the long-term consequences of lead exposure in children. After stepping away from her professional career in 2014 to focus on raising her ...

This week, the Milwaukee Health Department reported it had found dangerous levels of lead contamination in "multiple" Milwaukee Public Schools buildings The announcement came just months after MHD new ...

Bans on lead in paint, gasoline and pipes have dramatically reduced lead poisoning that causes severe developmental problems in children. But another threat looms: More children have elevated lead ...

Two house painters in hazmat suits remove lead paint from the side of a house. Cleveland Department of Public Health reports show nearly all cases of childhood lead poisoning in the city come from ...

A student has tested positive for lead poisoning after being exposed to lead at an MPS school, according to the Milwaukee Health Department. The student attends Golda Meir Lower Campus, which serves ...

TV 11 NEWS AT FIVE CONTINUES. EVERYTHING IS DIFFERENT FOR HIM NOW. RIGHT NOW, ONE FAMILY IS SPEAKING UP ABOUT THE ORDEAL THEY WENT THROUGH DUE TO LEAD PAINT. IT IS A TOXIC SUBSTANCE STILL FOUND IN ...

The Wildlife Center of the North Coast in Astoria has admitted three bald eagles in recent weeks, an unusual spike that highlights an ongoing but often overlooked threat to raptors in Oregon: lead ...