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When a person is exposed lead, a highly toxic substance, lead poisoning may result. While people of all ages can develop lead poisoning, children are most often the victims. Lead exposure can result in a range of hazards from infertility to high blood pressure.
Lead is naturally occurring metal present in the earth's crust. This toxic substance has infiltrated through paint, gasoline, and household products among many other things.
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Sesame Street Lead Away! Lead Poisoning Prevention Project - $23.00
A Sesame Street video to help preschool children learn things they can do to keep lead out of their bodies.
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Lead Babies: Breaking the Cycle of Learning Disabilities, Declining IQ, ADHD, Behavior Problems, and Autism - $24.95
This groundbreaking study reveals the continuing danger that lead contamination presents to health—particularly in the earliest stages of life. Disclosure about the lead content in house paint, gasoline, ...
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Brush with Death: A Social History of Lead Poisoning - $25.00
During the twentieth century, lead poisoning killed thousands of workers and children in the United States. Thousands who survived lead poisoning were left physically crippled or were robbed of mental faculties and years of life. In Brush w...
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Here's to Hasan getting a sudden case of lead poisoning, or something of that "caliber."
@onlinerants | November 12, 2009 05:25 PM -
Elizabeth Gunning married 2 Dukes, Hamilton & Argyll, Maria married the Earl of Coventry before dying young of lead poisoning. #Herstory
@scandalwomen | November 12, 2009 03:25 PM -
Lead is also unnerving.There is a lot of lead poisoning where weather is tampered with.Hitler did it too.Happy Open Skies Era @MariRamosCNN
@LisaCash | November 12, 2009 02:22 PM -
xmas shopping online and i fell asleep in one of those old gap anoraks (and nothing else) hope i dont get lead poisoning
@remsennick | November 12, 2009 12:35 PM -
Water and Lead: fluoride and lead poisoning | Over The Hill Health ...: lead test kits, fluoride causing more l.. http://bit.ly/5thbq
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View All Lead Poisoning Questions (348) | Ask a QuestionWhat is the best homeopathic treatment for poison ivy? (2 Answers)A paste made from baking soda and water for itch. this will also dry out the oils in the poison. lte dry on the skin till it flakes off. read moreDo you consider alcohol to be poison? Define the term "poison." (3 Answers)This isn't coming from a dictionary, just from me: I consider a poison any ingested substance that does direct harm to one or more parts of the body, usually causing ... read moreHow can you tell if a spider is poisonous? (4 Answers)Spiders aren't like snakes, where there are identifiable features worldwide, with only one or two exceptions. Yes, in the U.S., we only have the brown recluses--very pale grey to brown, ... read more
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Lead Poisoning News
- Google News: Lead Poisoning
- EPA: Lead in the News
- FOXNews.com: Sludge Tested As Lead-Poisoning Fix (April 14, 2008)
- Chicago Tribune: Long-ago lead exposure may worsen brain deterioration years later (January 27, 2008)
- "In brief, the scientists found that the higher the lifetime lead dose, the poorer the performance across a wide variety of mental functions, like verbal and visual memory and language ability. From low to high dose, the difference in mental functioning was about the equivalent of aging by two to six years."
- FOXNews.com: Hundreds of Thousands of U.S. Children Poisoned from Lead in Paint, Not Toys (2007)
- FOXNews.com: Warfarin's Labeling Fiasco (2007)
- KidsHealth News: Lead Exposure Has Lasting Effect on Kids' Language Skills (2006)
- NPR: Beethoven Suffered from Lead Poisoning (2005)
- Argonne National Laboratory: Argonne researchers confirm lead as cause of Beethoven's illness (2005)
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