In today’s health headlines, what we learn about lead poisoning from ancient Rome. Also, putting the first bird flu death ...

New York’s Advisory Council on Lead Poisoning Prevention convened Wednesday at the Capitol to review the state Department of ...

Silver fueled the rise of the Roman Empire. But the ancient process of mining and extracting silver was also making the air ...

A wildlife rehabilitation center in Utah is again calling on hunters to switch to lead-free ammunition after a bald eagle ...

For the first time, the US Food and Drug Administration has set a limit on the amount of lead that can be in baby foods, but critics say it’s too little, too late.

Ordinarily, the large deposits of lead in Enyigba community in Abakaliki Local Government Area and Ameka community in Ezza ...

Learn how researchers examined lead levels in ice cores dating back to the Roman Empire, and found concentrations high enough ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration set the first federal voluntary limits for how much lead should be allowed in ...

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

New York State is spending millions of dollars to prepare counties for new lead paint rules that are set to take effect later ...

Atmospheric lead pollution likely caused cognitive decline among citizens of the Roman Empire, according to research published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The researchers first took measurements of lead deposited in three Arctic ice cores every year between 500 BCE and 600 CE using techniques they have reported before. They found that lead emissions ...