Forty-one million IQ points. That’s what Dr. David Bellinger determined Americans have collectively forfeited as a result of exposure to lead, mercury, and organophosphate pesticides. In a 2012 paper published by the National Institutes of Health, Bellinger, a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, compared intelligence quotients among children whose mothers had been exposed to theseContinue reading “Chemicals that poison our brain”
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Nigeria: Doctors treat lead-poisoned children by Michelle Faul
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The Nigerian village that suffered one of the world’s worst recorded incidents of lead poisoning is now habitable and doctors can start treating more than 1,000 contaminated children, a doctor and a scientist from two international agencies said Friday. For some, it already is too late to reverse serious neurological damage,Continue reading “Nigeria: Doctors treat lead-poisoned children by Michelle Faul”
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