The 12206 ZIP code, which encompasses West Hill, Beverwyck and Upper Washington Avenue, has one of the state's highest concentrations of childhood lead poisoning. A little boy peers through a ...

The entire staff of the lead poisoning office at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was included in layoffs at the agency last week. And in recent weeks, state water officials have ...

Two days later, asked about the cutting of the CDC’s lead poisoning prevention and surveillance branch, US Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested that ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has rejected a request from health officials in Milwaukee for help with a lead poisoning investigation, after Health and Human Services Secretary ...

The Milwaukee Health Department asked for help with the lead poisoning investigation unfolding at Milwaukee Public Schools City officials made the request for help, called Epi-Aid, to the Centers ...

The results came back and her blood was infected with lead. So, she took to the entire house to see what could have been the cause of the potential poisoning. She then pans her camera to show a ...

After stepping away from her professional career in 2014 to focus on raising her three sons, she re-entered the workforce in 2017 with a renewed purpose — leading efforts to provide early ...

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Scully said signs of lead poisoning can go unnoticed. "Some of the symptoms, especially among children, could be stomach aches, irritability, learning disabilities, developmental delays," she added.

Californians in Wildfire Areas Urged to Test for Lead Poisoning By Jorge Garcia PASADENA, California (Reuters) -In early January, Tony and Jacqueline Collier watched on helplessly as the Eaton ...