- A review of a preventable poison: pediatric lead
poisoning.
PURPOSE. A review of lead poisoning in pediatric populations enables nurses to increase their knowledge base about lead poisoning and to further the work on the Healthy People 2010 goal of eliminating childhood lead poisoning as a public health issue in the United States. CONCLUSION. Nurses should be aware of ......
- Enforcement of Lead Hazard Remediation to Protect Childhood Development
Mary Jean Brown The nation has an ambitious goal from the Healthy People 2010 objectives to eliminate lead poisoning as a public health problem in the United States by 2010. The Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) takes this goal very seriously as ......
- Lead wars
HEADNOTE Lead-based paint presents property managers with slew of problems More than 80 percent of all housing built in the United States before 1978 contains some lead-based paint on the interior or exterior-leaving property managers with cleanup, public health and litigation concerns. Cause for concern Since the 1980s, the Environmental ......
- Lead wars: lead-based paint presents property managers
with slew of problems.
More than 80 percent of all housing built in the United States before 1978 contains some lead-based paint on the interior or exterior--leaving property managers with cleanup, public health and litigation concerns. Cause for concern Since the 1980s, the Environmental Protection Agency has focused on removing lead from gasoline, reducing ......
- Businesses brace for fallout from lead
poisoning.
For businesses still reeling from the asbestos fallout, here comes lead. Lead, one of the world's oldest known toxins, is shaping up to be the top environmental hazard of the 1990s, just as asbestos became the most dreaded substance of the 1980s. It's not that the issue of lead has ......
- Remediating lead-based paint.
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, lead poisoning is the single most important health problem facing young children in the United States today. Lead poisoning in children can cause irreversible damage to the nervous system, learning disabilities, behavioral disorders, slowed growth, impaired hearing, and in severe ......
- LARGE POPULATION, MANY CHILDREN SUFFER LEAD POISONING;
EL SALVADOR SHUTS DOWN MAJOR BATTERY FACTORY.
In El Salvador, high levels of lead have sickened significant numbers of children, students at the Centro Escolar Comunidad Rural Sitio del Nino in San Juan Opico. Since May, more than 40 children from the school have left the school after tests showed blood levels of lead higher than ......