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 ...

There’s no safe level of exposure to lead—but a small, strange study shows we’ve made incredible progress in recent decades ...

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

In A Nutshell Century-old hair reveals dramatic change: Researchers analyzed childhood hair saved by families from 1916 to ...

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

While lead exposure in children has been associated with cognitive and behavioral problems, few studies have examined later psychiatric symptoms. A new analysis led by researchers at Brown ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alysson Muotri, Ph.D. Lead exposure shaped human evolution, influencing brain development and the rise of language. (CREDIT: Kyle ...

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 ...

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