February 24, 2011 (San Antonio, Texas) — A medical investigative team in Indiana used both science and foreign-language experts to trace a persistent cluster of lead poisoning detected in Burmese ...

LOS ANGELES — Whether its lead from old buildings, arsenic from contaminated food or strontium fallout from a nuclear explosion, heavy metals that enter the body pose a serious health threat. With ...

Two lead-poisoned bald eagles were recently euthanized at the World Bird Sanctuary in Missouri after efforts to save them failed. Two bald eagles treated at the World Bird Sanctuary are among the ...

Between recalls for ground cinnamon with high levels of lead and popular protein powders testing positive for the heavy metal these past few weeks, you're probably wondering what lead can do to your ...

Biologists treat sick and injured condors in a remote "hospital" in northern Arizona. The birds also receive vaccines to fight the avian flu. The condors ingest lead ammunition when they eat animal ...

The federal government has described lead poisoning as a major public health emergency that threatens the country’s human ...

Something remarkable is happening with the little brown lizards that have taken over the urban landscape of New Orleans. They’re living – and even thriving – with levels of lead in their blood that ...

Lawyers appeal to sue Anglo American over lead poisoning in Zambia’s Kabwe, alleging decades of pollution harmed 140,000 ...