Cuts to the CDC's branch responsible for investigating and preventing lead poisoning has brought multiple efforts to help ...

One of the latest casualties has been the CDC’s lead poisoning response team at the National Center for Environmental Health, which can no longer help schools in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with their lead ...

Most of Milwaukee's schools were built before 1978, local health officials said in their initial request to the CDC for help, before lead-based paint was banned in the U.S. Inspections of some schools ...

Funding delays for lead pipe replacement and the elimination of a CDC lead program could put children at risk.

Officials for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention denied Milwaukee Public Schools officials' request for help with ...

The city's request, sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was denied "due to the complete loss of (CDC's) ...

Two days later, asked about the cutting of the CDC’s lead poisoning prevention and surveillance branch, US Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested that the ...

Sen. Tammy Baldwin and Rep. Gwen Moore called the layoffs of federal lead poisoning experts "haphazard" and urged their ...

The denial came two days after all of the CDC employees part of Lead Poisoning Prevention and Surveillance Branch were laid off, part of sweeping layoffs at the Health and Human Services ...

The city's request for help, submitted to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last month, was denied on April 3 "due to the complete loss" of the CDC's lead poisoning prevention branch ...