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Lead exposure is responsible for a range of human health impacts, with even relatively low levels impacting the cognitive ...

The new research adds context to a long-standing debate about the role lead pollution and poisoning may have played in the ...

Lead exposure is responsible for a range of human health impacts, with even relatively low levels impacting the cognitive development of children. DRI ...

Lead records from Arctic glaciers indicate that people all over Europe would have been affected by pollution from metal ...

Lead exposure is responsible for a range of human health impacts, with even relatively low levels impacting the cognitive ...