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NEWS:

Challenging Assumptions about Lead and IQ: Effects Increase, Not Decrease, in Older Children

Decades later, lead is stalking our kids

EPA: Compound in Teflon may cause cancer

Use of Insecticides Linked to Lasting Neurological Problems for Farmers

Women in Coastal Areas Are Found to Have Higher Mercury Levels

ARTICLES:

Frequent Questions about Mercury

Lead in Drinking Water

Lead poisoning

Mercury, fish and the risk of cardiovascular diseases

NGC - Lead exposure in children: prevention, detection, and management. (2005)

NGC - Managing elevated blood lead levels among young children: recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention. (2002)

NGC - Preventing lead poisoning in young children. (2005)

NGC - Screening for elevated blood lead levels in children. (2001)

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

Accumulated lead exposure and risk of age-related cataract in men. (JAMA)

Active and passive smoking and blood lead levels in U.S. adults: Data from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. (Nicotine Tob Res. 2005)

Amalgam exposure and neurological function. (Neurotoxicology. 2005)

[Amalgam Risk Assessment with Coverage of References up to 2005.] (Gesundheitswesen. 2005)

Blood lead levels--United States, 1999-2002. (MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2005)

Blood mercury levels and neurobehavioral function. (JAMA. 2005)

Body burdens of mercury in lower Hudson River area anglers. (Environ Res. 2005)

Cadmium-induced nephropathy in the development of high blood pressure. (Toxicol Lett. 2005)

Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention (JAMA. 2005)

Copper toxicity and bioaccumulation in Chinese cabbage (Brassica pekinensis Rupr.). (Environ Toxicol. 2005)

Deoxynivalenol: toxicology and potential effects on humans. (J Toxicol Environ Health B Crit Rev. 2005)

Determinants of the Blood Lead Level of US Women of Reproductive Age. (J Am Coll Nutr. 2005)

Differential effects of lead exposure on components of verbal memory. (Occup Environ Med. 2005)

Dioxin toxicity and chloracne in the Ukraine. (J Drugs Dermatol. 2005)

Early (in uterus and infant) exposure to mercury and lead. (Clin Nutr. 2005)

Effects of breast feeding on neuropsychological development in a community with methylmercury exposure from seafood. (J Expo Anal Environ Epidemiol. 2005)

[Electrosmog, cellular phones, sunbeds etc.-adverse health effects from radiation? Health aspects of non-ionizing radiation.] (Bundesgesundheitsblatt Gesundheitsforschung Gesundheitsschutz. 2005)

Fingernails as biological indices of metal exposure. (J Biosci. 2005)

Hazardous child labor: lead and neurocognitive development. (Public Health Rep. 2005)

Heavy metal concentrations in human eyes. (Am J Ophthalmol. 2005)

Human exposure to dioxins through diet in Italy. (Chemosphere. 2005)

Human health implications of environmental contaminants in Arctic Canada: A review. (Sci Total Environ. 2005)

Inadvertent exposure to organochlorine pesticides DDT and derivatives in people from the Canary Islands (Spain). (Sci Total Environ. 2005)

It's Not the Heat, It's the Humidity: Wet Weather Increases Legionellosis Risk in the Greater Philadelphia Metropolitan Area. (J Infect Dis. 2005)

Lead contamination in tea leaves and non-edaphic factors affecting it. (Chemosphere. 2005)

Lead Exposure in Children: Prevention, Detection, and Management (PEDIATRICS 2005)

Lead toxicity update. A brief review. (Med Sci Monit. 2005)

Levels of Persistent Organochlorine Contaminants in Fish from Korea and Their Potential Health Risk. (Arch Environ Contam Toxicol. 2005)

Neurocognitive impairment in lead-exposed children of Andean lead-glazing workers. (J Occup Environ Med. 2005)

Neuromotor functions in Inuit preschool children exposed to Pb, PCBs, and Hg. (Neurotoxicol Teratol. 2005)

Occupational exposure to carbofuran and the incidence of cancer in the Agricultural Health Study. (Environ Health Perspect. 2005)

Relation between blood lead levels and childhood anemia in India. (Am J Epidemiol. 2005)

Relationship of lead, mercury, mirex, dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene, hexachlorobenzene, and polychlorinated biphenyls to timing of menarche among akwesasne mohawk girls. (Pediatrics. 2005)

Risk factors for lead poisoning among Cuban refugee children. (Public Health Rep. 2005)

The influence of milk intake on the lead toxicity to the sensory nervous system in lead workers. (Neurotoxicology)

Total mercury, methyl mercury, and selenium levels in the red meat of small cetaceans sold for human consumption in Japan. (Environ Sci Technol. 2005)

Tubular and Glomerular Kidney Effects in Swedish Women with Low Environmental Cadmium Exposure (Environmental Health Perspectives 2005)

INTERNET SITES:

International Toxicity Estimates for Risk

Mercury in Seafood

NIH - NIEHS Environmental Contaminants and Their Relation to Learning, Behavioral and Developmental Disorders

Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units (PEHSUs)

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