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National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week: 10 Lead Poisoning Prevention Tips by Susan H. Patient Expert

Posted Sun 24 Oct 2010 3:54am It’s National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week, and the California Poison Control System ( www.calpoison.org ) is warning consumers that lead can be found in a variety of products available to children. “Lead poisoning is an important cause of learning disabilities, anemia, as well as growth problems, and children exposed to lead may have attention Read on »

Childhood Lead Poisoning Leads to Life of Violent Crime by Jennifer Lance Patient Expert

Posted Mon 17 Aug 2009 11:23pm It is common knowledge that lead is bad for our health, and our government is trying to protect our children from lead poisoning through the Consumer Product Safety...: Lead Poisoning of Children Causes Chinese Villagers to Storm Factory » Get Eco Child’s Play by RSS or sign up by email. Most children are exposed to lead through paint Read on »

Autism and Autistic Symptoms Associated with Childhood Lead Poisoning by Leslie M. Healthy Living Professional

Posted Mon 17 Nov 2008 9:19pm The Journal of Applied Research Read on »

Autism and Lead Poisoning Update by Harold L D. Patient Expert

Posted Sat 20 Dec 2008 5:49pm I commented on possible connections between autism and lead poisoning on October 13, 2007 in Autism and Lead Poisoning. I had referenced articles which discussed a lead... the impact of lead poisoning on learning Read on »

Lead Poisoning & Special Ed - Revisited by Jim Gerl Patient Expert

Posted Mon 24 May 2010 11:42am Image by The Rocketeer via Flickr I recently ran a post about the outrageously high level of lead poisoning in the children in the Detroit public school system. I'm still alarmed. How are we pumping these kids so full of lead. A couple of astute readers brought up the connection that lead poisoning is at least one cause of autism or autism Read on »

As If the Sugar Wasn't Bad Enough! Now Lead is Poisoning Our Candy-Eating Latino Kids by Connie Bennett Healthy Living Professional

Posted Thu 18 Dec 2008 8:13pm Consuming lots of candies with sugar certainly offers enough dangers as it is. But now Mexicans living in California are getting lead poisoning at alarming rates due... can poison children." Jones writes about this outbreak of lead poisoning that has alarmed doctors and public health officials, who've now launched an aggressive campaign Read on »

Autism and Lead Poisoning by Harold L D. Patient Expert

Posted Thu 11 Sep 2008 8:04pm with Childhood Lead Poisoning , published in the Journal of Applied Research, authors Theodore I. Lidsky, PhD , Department of Psychobiology, New York State Institute for Basic Research..., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania examined two case histories of children who, during periods of severe lead poisoning, developed autism or autistic symptoms. In the abstract portion Read on »

Lead Poisoning from Paint Still a Kids Safety Issue by Jennifer Lance Patient Expert

Posted Thu 27 Aug 2009 12:03am Despite US restrictions on lead levels in paint, including a tougher law that debuted this month, lead poisoning due to consumer paint is still an issue. Why? Much... Safety Commission (CPSC) states that lead poisoning in kids can cause irreversible brain damage, impair mental function, slow mental and physical development and reduce attention Read on »

Mass Lead Poisoning in Dakar: Battery Recycling Exacts a Heavy Toll by Environmental Health Posted Wed 30 Sep 2009 9:00pm Mass Lead Poisoning in Dakar: Battery Recycling Exacts a Heavy Toll Formal Correction: This article has...: Potera C 2009. Mass Lead Poisoning in Dakar: Battery Recycling Exacts a Heavy Toll. Environ Health Perspect 117:A454-A454. doi:10.1289/ehp.117-a454a Read on »

Lead Poisoning & Special Ed by Jim Gerl Patient Expert

Posted Mon 17 May 2010 2:29pm for lead. The study concluded that overall, 58% of roughly 39,000 students tested -- 22,755 children -- had a history of lead poisoning . Worse yet, of the 39,199 students tested as young children, only 23 had no lead in their bodies. The article mentioned that special education students had even higher levels of lead in their bodies. So Read on »