Guidance updated for laboratory testing for drugs of misuse in ED

In a guidance document issued by the Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine, updated recommendations are presented ...
ObserverOpinion

Lead Poisoning Isn’t a Mystery. It’s a Policy Failure

Communications strategist Olga González examines why childhood lead poisoning remains one of the United States’ most ...

Waukegan trying to overcome challenges in replacing lead pipes: ‘People are afraid to open the door’

Diane Moeller, a project engineer with Robinson Engineering who is overseeing the Waukegan project, said educational efforts ...
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One year on, Altadena homeowners struggle to remove lead from homes and yards

For fire survivors who have homes still standing, it's been a year of cleaning, remediating and testing. Many are finding ...

Here’s where things stand after elevated lead levels were detected in Delta

The Ohio EPA ordered a series of testing to be conducted in Fulton County after elevated lead levels were detected in the air ...
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West Virginia American Water testing customer pipelines for lead

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WOWK)– Crews for West Virginia American Water will be out in the community as they begin work to replace any lead pipelines in residences. West Virginia American Water recently ...
The New York Times

Nigeria Closes Factories Linked to U.S. Auto Industry Amid Poisoning Inquiry

Carmakers have known for decades that battery recycling was poisoning people abroad. Nigeria’s crackdown is an effort to catalog the damage. By Peter S. Goodman and Will Fitzgibbon Photographs by ...
NPR

Test scores in U.S. schools are down. Are smartphones to blame?

Student test scores in the U.S. are down from where they were a decade ago. The trend is one that education researchers accept but took most of the decade to identify. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, ...