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PhD candidate researches lead exposure’s impact on children, advocates for policy change
For the past three-and-a-half years, Leah Bartlo has worked with UB researchers on ways to support lead-exposed children.
A city responding to a lead crisis in schools reached out to the CDC for help. The agency’s lead experts were just fired
A CDC team helping respond to a lead crisis in Milwaukee schools was cut as part of a widespread layoffs at federal health ...
RFK Jr.'s cuts to CDC lead poisoning team bring efforts to help tribes, health departments to a standstill
Cuts to the CDC's branch responsible for investigating and preventing lead poisoning has brought multiple efforts to help ...
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CDC division responsible for asthma control and lead poisoning prevention effectively eliminated
The CDC division responsible for asthma control and lead poisoning prevention has been effectively eliminated as part of the ...
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A city responding to a lead crisis in schools reached out to the CDC for help. The agency’s lead experts were just fired
The CDC lost roughly 2,500 workers on Tuesday. In some cases, whole divisions and programs were wiped out. One of those was the Lead Poisoning Prevention and Surveillance Branch in the agency’s ...