DETROIT - Tests on more than 1,200 children?s products, most of them still on store shelves, found that 35 percent contain lead ? many with levels far above the federal recall standard used for lead paint. A Hannah Montana card game case, a Go ...

Just in time for football season , California?s Attorney General has filed a lawsuit against three artificial turf companies, alleging that the companies have failed to disclose that their turf contains lead. ?The bottom line is this is 2008. Why ...

Peoria County cut its rate of childhood lead poisoning from nearly 15 percent of tested children in 2003 to just over 8 percent in 2006, but that progress may be eclipsed when thresholds for lead poisoning are lowered. Expected new standards could ...

FRIDAY, Sept. 5 (HealthDay News) -- While lead has been phased out of U.S. gasoline, paint and other products, lead levels in dirt -- maybe even the soil in your yard or the local playground -- are still a public health hazard, warns an Indianapolis ...

Republican presidential nominee John McCain presented himself as an agent of revival for a political system in disarray during his acceptance Thursday in St. Paul, Minn. ST. PAUL, Minn. ? Sen. John McCain of Arizona completed a long and often ...

Two weeks ago we had the puppy-beater , and now we have the puppy-tosser. What is with all the puppy abuse? Anthony Blow has thrown a poor pooch down the garbage chute while fighting with his girlfriend , Robin Hines. What?s worse than sending your ...

Will Sens. Jim Webb and John Warner stand up to Big Tobacco? The House of Representatives recently took a stand for our children. It passed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act by a 326-to-102 vote. Now it's the senators' turn to ...

A SECOND Mount Isa family has launched legal action against the State Government and mining giant Xstrata over the alleged lead poisoning of their child. Sidney Body, 3, who had the highest blood lead level of any Mount Isa child tested by Queensland ...

In February, Elizabeth Jackson of Orangeburg bought two watercolors of hummingbirds at an area flea market. In doing so, she was continuing a passion for artwork that began in 2005 as a form of personal healing. "I started collecting things that I ...

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