Lead by Francesco Scatena via iStock for WMNF News. Exposure to lead poisoning can cause serious health problems, especially in kids aged 1 to 6. The Department of Health in Hillsborough County ...

Harry Murphy and his son, Brian A. Murphy, have agreed to pay $35,000 to help children poisoned in their rentals, and $80,000 ...

For more than a century, a smelter and other factories spewed 400 million pounds of lead dust across the city’s east side.

2,297: Clark County children tested for lead in the blood in 2014 91: Clark County children with elevated blood lead levels in 2014 514: Champaign County children tested for lead in the blood in 2014 ...

A busy mother of three, Xena Buckle first realised there was something amiss with her six-year-old autistic son when he started complaining of a lot of tummy aches. “I noticed that he’d been picking ...

Thousands of infants and toddlers across Ohio aren’t getting tested for lead poisoning even though they are at high risk or are living in unsafe homes, an analysis by this newspaper found. Less than ...

Milwaukee health and school officials are launching a new program to screen children in schools for lead poisoning. Pictured is a lead screening clinic in the cafeteria of Milwaukee's North Division ...

Omaha sits on the nation's largest residential lead cleanup site, yet fewer than half the children in its most contaminated ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Years into Cleveland’s push to prevent lead poisoning, more than 1,000 children are still poisoned each year — their brain development permanently altered by a toxin we know how to ...

Lead paint from homes built before 1978 is, by far, the leading cause of lead poisoning in children. (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) What are journalists missing from the state of Delaware?

Lead Children is a 2026 Netflix miniseries based on the true story of Polish pediatrician Jolanta Wadowska-Krol. The series is set in the 1970s in Communist Poland. It shows how she discovered lead ...

Editor’s note: Students at SUNY Upstate Medical University are learning more than how to be doctors, researchers and public health experts. They also are acquiring skills to advocate for their ...