Childrens Health and the Environment
Links to articles in today's press about environmental health. Many more links available today at www.EnvironmentalHealthNews.org
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Asthma in pregnancy: how does it affect mother and child?
Asthma is one of the most common medical conditions in developed countries, and it affects approximately eight percent of women in their child-bearing years.
Categories: Environmental Health
Lead forces Ridgefield to close park.
Willis Park was closed indefinitely today after Ridgefield officials learned that its artificial turf field contained 30 times more lead than the state standard for the substance.
Categories: Environmental Health
Family's lawyer eyes lawsuit over lead.
The lawyer for the McMurray family said Thursday he is exploring the possibility of a lawsuit against landlord George Thomas, who rents the family a home recently deemed "unsafe for human occupation" by the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) due to lead contamination.
Categories: Environmental Health
Poison in the parks.
Park maintenance crews are taking action on thousands of picnic tables across central Indiana after 13 Investigates found many of those tables are tainted with high levels of arsenic.
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Leadville Superfund case settled.
A settlement was filed in Denver's federal district court Wednesday over environmental damage in an 18-square-mile area in and around Leadville, which was mined for 150 years.
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Arsenic in field has Lancers homeless.
Soil tests last week revealed elevated levels of arsenic 6 inches below the football field at Carlsbad High.
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R.I. lead paint ruling ends hope of costly cleanup.
A day after the state Supreme Court overturned a landmark verdict that could have led to a multibillion-dollar cleanup of lead paint, health advocates and state officials say the reversal will make it much harder to eliminate childhood lead poisoning.
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Fighting tooth and nail.
After years of debate, federal officials have agreed to investigate mercury-based fillings.
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The dark side of dust.
Those dust bunnies hiding under your toddler's bed are scarier than you might think. Once viewed as just a sign of unambitious housekeeping, dust has a dark side.
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Environmental 'police' help school keep tabs on waste.
For an hour a week, students from Cockle Bay Primary School’s environmental team audit other students’ lunch boxes to keep tabs on waste.
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R.I. high court overturns lead-paint verdict.
The Rhode Island Supreme Court yesterday abruptly ended the state’s nine-year campaign to force some major corporations to clean up the lead paints that the state believes poisoned tens of thousands of Rhode Island children.
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Lead poisoning cases decline.
Childhood lead poisoning declined by 15 percent last year, the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene reported on Wednesday, reaching the lowest rate ever recorded in New York City.
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Record-low number of lead-poisoned kids in city.
The number of young New York City children poisoned by lead continues to fall, reaching a record-low, health officials said Wednesday.
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Another high school turf field closed.
The Hasbrouck Heights school district has closed an artificial turf playing field after discovering above-normal levels of lead in the surfacing, the schools superintendent said today.
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EPA removes lead from yards.
The Environmental Protection Agency's cleaning up lead throughout Missouri, and they're concentrating right now on Washington County.
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Caregivers often expose asthmatic kids to smoke.
Secondhand exposure to cigarette smoke is an asthma trigger in children and a new study shows that smoking by the primary caregiver and daycare provider are important sources of smoke exposure in children with asthma.
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Exercise recommendations may not curb kids' weight.
Health experts generally recommend that children get at least one hour of moderate exercise each day, but that may not be enough to counter the problem of childhood obesity, a UK study suggests.
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Call to rethink child BMI testing.
Using a child's body mass index (BMI) as a measure of the success of exercise targets may be misleading, say experts.
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Children's food 'poor' at attractions.
Theme parks, museums and other leading holiday attractions are serving up child meals loaded with sugar, salt and fat, a survey has found.
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Chef proves school lunch can be healthy, cheap.
The introduction of healthy school lunch programs is one major reason France has been able to curb childhood obesity rates after two decades on the rise, according to two recent studies.
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