ST. LOUIS (AP) — For years, testing of the tap water in an upscale Detroit suburb showed the city was in the clear. Then residents got a notice seemingly out of the blue: Their water could be ...

Families skipping or delaying pediatric appointments for their young children due to the pandemic are missing out on more than vaccines. Critical testing for lead poisoning has plummeted in many parts ...

If children are exposed to lead in their first few years of life, even in small quantities, it can cause developmental delays and sometimes irreversible damage. But in Washington state, only a small ...

In this 2016 photo, Donna McNeal, of Orion Environmental Services, collects a water sample from a classroom sink for lead testing at Fawcett Elementary School in Tacoma, Wash. Only 24 states and the ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Around three years ago, Oceanna Fair and her organization, Families for Lead Freedom Now , proposed a mobile lead testing unit to help kids. They were told by county officials that ...

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services is now recommending that all young children in Wisconsin be tested for elevated levels of lead in their blood, as childhood lead testing continues to lag ...

The Pennsylvania Legislature is on the verge of taking two important steps to help reduce childhood lead poisoning by advancing a childhood lead testing bill in the Senate and including funding in the ...

NEW DETAILS NOW IN AN I-TEAM EXCLUSIVE TOXIC WATER. HARTFORD AND CARROLL COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS DID NOT REPORT LEAD TESTING DATA FOR THEIR SCHOOLS LAST YEAR, DESPITE STATE LAW SAYING THAT THEY’RE ...

Water sources at more than half the city’s South End schools, which serve many students of color and children living in poverty, exceeded the Seattle Public Schools’ limit for lead, according to a ...

Brenda Goodman is a senior news writer for WebMD and Andy Miller is editor and CEO of Georgia Health News. Freelance writers Erica Hensley and Elizabeth Fite also contributed to this report. This ...

ST. LOUIS — For years, testing of the tap water in an upscale Detroit suburb showed the city was in the clear. Then residents got a notice seemingly out of the blue: Their water could be contaminated ...

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