‘We’re losing IQ points’: the lead poisoning crisis unfolding among US children | Children’s health

Nine-year-old Turokk Dow loves spelling, airplanes and basketball. He is learning to read and write in his third grade classroom. But suffering from extreme blood lead poisoning at age 3…

Richard S. Isaacson, M.D., to Lead Alzheimer’s Disease Prevention

Richard S. Isaacson, M.D., a world-renowned neurologist and researcher, and director of the newly launched FAU Center for Brain Health within the Schmidt College of Medicine. (Photo by Alex Dolce)…

Community health center in Elmira hosts lead screenings for children

The Elmira Economic Opportunity Program location at 650 Baldwin St. (Phoebe Taylor-Vuolo/WSKG) A new community health clinic in Elmira is now providing lead screenings for children, the first in a…

CHOP and Penn Medicine to Lead Philadelphia Regional Center for Children’s Environmental Health

PHILADELPHIA – Children in the Greater Philadelphia area face a number of environmental threats to their health, including lead poisoning, asthma from air pollution, and exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals.…

Fitness Trackers Lead to More Exercise, Study Finds

Many of us hopped on the fitness tracker bandwagon a few years ago, myself included. Did I, at one point, wear both a FitBit and an Apple Watch? Why yes,…