The Oakland Unified School District is grappling with high lead content found in water at some of its schools. The heavy metal is toxic and hazardous to human health. Here what you need to know about ...

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Lead poisoning has plagued millions of people ever since the world became industrialized, but humans' troubled relationship with the toxic metal goes back much further in time. Our ancient ancestors ...

Tomás R. Guilarte, professor and dean of FIU’s Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work, has dedicated more than 30 years of his career to uncovering the lifelong effects of childhood ...

Renaud Joannes-Boyau receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Manish Arora receives funding from US National Institutes of Health. He is the founder of Linus Biotechnology, a start-up ...

As workers set up stations at North Division High School’s cafeteria to test children’s blood for lead, a group of frustrated parents and community activists gathered just outside the main entrance.

Despite decades of evidence on the toxic effects of lead battery recycling, companies opted not to act and blocked efforts to ...

Hannah Mann had eight times the amount of lead in her body that a person would normally have, and required around the clock irrigation of her colon to remove it, according to a UAB doctor testifying ...

Consumers with the imported pans should throw them away due to the severe health risks posed by lead, the agency warns.