Researchers investigated historic and current lead exposure by studying an unexpected part of the body: hair. In a study published yesterday in the journal PNAS, researchers analyzed hair clippings ...

A new study reveals the dramatic decrease in lead exposure in the U.S. following the establishment of the Environmental ...

While gas consumption continued to rise in the ensuing decades, lead samples in hair dropped sharply. Samples from the 1970s ...

While lead exposure in children has been associated with cognitive and behavioral problems, few studies have examined later ...

Hair “is really a vault of information,” says Ken Smith, a demographer at the University of Utah. The study is small and limited to the greater Salt Lake City region of Utah. Researchers gathered 47 ...

According to the research, lead levels in human hair from residents of the Greater Salt Lake City region have plummeted by nearly 100-fold since the 1970s. The driving force behind this precipitous ...

Historic lead levels from the era of leaded gasoline may be contributing to cognitive issues 50 years later, suggests research reported for the first time at the Alzheimer’s Association International ...

From cinnamon to protein powders, reports about high levels of lead in our food are raising questions about how to reduce exposure. This week, a Consumer Reports investigation found some protein ...

PITTSBURGH – A new study has found that people who lived in areas with high levels of leaded gasoline emissions in the 1960s and ’ 70s are more likely to report memory problems today – a finding that ...

The new approach would focus on preventing exposure to lead. Almost 20 years after the last update, the Trump administration has released a new plan for how the federal government will work to reduce ...

IDEM annouced that Indiana’s water systems have submitted more than 98% of the required lead service line inventories.

The lead test results were so high that the machine couldn’t read them,' the rehab center wrote on social media.