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The F.D.A. is investigating the sources of cinnamon and other ingredients produced outside the U.S. as the possible cause of lead poisoning in dozens of children. Advocates are urging mandatory [...]

Byline: Jenna Portnoy and Laura Reiley Sarah and Ricky Callahan thought nothing of it when a doctor tested their son, Rudy, for lead at a checkup, a routine blood test [...]

Byline: Robin Foster HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, Nov. 14, 2023 (Healthday News) -- Doctors need to be on the lookout for lead poisoning in children as the latest tally of kids [...]

SALEM, OR -- The following information was released by the Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA): By Andrea Cantu-Schomus November 3, 2023 AUDIENCE: Pediatrics, Consumer, Caregivers ISSUE: The FDA is issuing [...]

Byline: Dana Hedgpeth Jeff Cooper had a hunch. Toxins in the environment, and especially lead, he suspected, were hurting bald eagles in Virginia more than ecologists realized. So when Cooper, [...]

The city's schools, stretched even before the lead crisis, are struggling with demands for individualized education programs and behavioral interventions for children with high lead exposure. FLINT, Mich. -- Nakiya [...]

A new report highlighted systemic failures slowing New York City from eradicating lead paint from its aging housing. As a lead-paint crisis engulfed New York City's public housing system last [...]

Four years ago, with my white coat on, I stepped out of my pediatric clinic and held a news conference. Lifting a baby bottle filled with water from Flint, Mich., [...]

NEWARK -- A growing crisis over lead contamination in drinking water gripped Newark on Wednesday as tens of thousands of residents were told to drink only bottled water, the culmination [...]

One mother cried as she spoke of the pain of not knowing who killed her teenage son last year because the cameras at her Brooklyn public housing complex were broken. [...]

New York City's housing authority promised in June as part of a landmark legal settlement to correct years of maintenance failures, mismanagement and cover-ups that federal authorities said had exposed [...]

For more than a decade, New York City made steady progress in reducing the number of children living in public housing who have tested positive for lead, but that trend [...]

Byline: Terrence McCoy WASHINGTON - Chanelle Mattocks remembers everything about the night lead poisoned her son. She was giving Alonzo, then 3, a bath in a tub that her landlord [...]

Thousands of residents of New York City's sprawling public housing system received notices under their apartment doors last year alerting them that city inspectors would need to get inside to [...]

Byline: Terrence McCoy Chanelle Mattocks remembers everything about that night in 2014, when lead poisoned her son. She was giving Alonzo, then 3, a bath in a tub that her [...]

BALTIMORE -- A year after Tiffany Bennett moved into a two-story red brick house at 524 Loudon Avenue here, she received alarming news. Two children, both younger than 6, for [...]

Byline: Tom Jackman The police killing of Korryn Gaines in Baltimore County, Md., on Monday has the potential to be America's next explosive racial powder keg. Or it could be [...]

Amid reignited fears about lead poisoning nationwide, the key to identifying solutions could lie in the common city pigeon. A study published on Monday in the journal Chemosphere found that [...]

Byline: Terrence McCoy A Chevy Chase, Maryland company that reaped millions of dollars from deals with poor, disabled victims of lead-paint poisoning in Baltimore has been accused of committing fraud [...]

Byline: Terrence McCoy A Chevy Chase, Maryland, company that reaped millions of dollars from deals with poor, disabled victims of lead-paint poisoning in Baltimore has been accused of committing fraud [...]

Byline: Max Lewontin Federal prosecutors in New York are conducting a wide-ranging investigation into health and safety conditions, particularly elevated blood lead levels, in the city's public housing and homeless [...]

Byline: Molly Jackson The emergency manager in charge of finances for Flint, Mich., when the city switched its water source in 2014, exposing thousands of children to lead, plans to [...]

On Wednesday, officials from Michigan and the federal Environmental Protection Agency were called before a House committee to explain how they let the drinking water in Flint become poisoned by [...]

President Obama has declared a state of emergency in response to the water crisis in Flint, Mich., where thousands of residents have been exposed to toxic amounts of lead. The [...]

FLINT, Mich. -- Michigan's attorney general opened an investigation Friday into lead contamination in Flint's drinking water, and the governor asked President Obama to declare a disaster as National Guard [...]

Several people were taken to hospitals on Friday after possibly being exposed to lead paint dust in a House office building, the authorities said. Officials said that overnight construction at [...]

Byline: Ovetta Wiggins Thousands of homes in Maryland that were certified as lead-free could actually be contaminated with the toxic substance, according to state officials. The state Department of the [...]

Byline: Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from NorthStarNewsToday.com (TriceEdneyWire.com) - The Michigan Attorney General last Wednesday filed 13 felony charges and five misdemeanor charges against two state officials [...]

Byline: Peter Hermann;Victoria St. Martin Eight cafeteria employees were taken to area hospitals Friday after a potential release of lead paint dust was discovered at the Longworth House Office Building [...]

Byline: Alison Young, USA TODAY Ken Shefton is furious about what the government knew eight years ago and never told him -- that the neighborhood where his five sons have [...]

Lead has been found in house paint and imported toys, and now it appears Indian spices and ceremonial powders may contain lead at levels that may be hazardous to children. [...]

Tests show that three rare California condors found dead in northern Arizona last month died because they ingested lead pellets while feeding on carrion. Condor recovery program officials said Monday [...]

The police clashed with residents of two villages near a smelting plant in northern China that is blamed for the lead poisoning of nearly all the children in the villages, […]

When the Consumer Product Safety Commission ordered a recall of half a million pieces of lead jewelry yesterday, it had two unusual partners: Ward Stone and his 10-year-old daughter, Montana. […]

Byline: Adebiyi Adedapo Abuja, Jul 15, 2013 (This Day/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has said it would launch investigation into the circumstances [...]

Sep 21, 2010 (UN News Service/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- The floods affected 226,611 people and inundated 7,206 houses and 5.393 hectares in Niger. 21 September 2010 - […]