Sentences with phrase «city children exposed»

New York City children exposed in the womb to high levels of pollutants in vehicle exhaust had a five times higher risk of attention problems at age 9, according to research by Columbia University scientists published Wednesday.

New York City children exposed in the womb to high levels of pollutants in vehicle exhaust had a five times higher risk of attention problems at age 9, according to new research

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Creed filmmaker Ryan Coogler, Selma director Ava DuVerney, comedian Hannibal Buress, musicians Stevie Wonder and Janelle Monáe and several others hosted an event in Flint to raise money for the community that has been effected by a horrific crisis, in which thousands of residents — including large numbers of children — have been exposed to contaminated city water.

Prime Minister Enda Kenny said the Cloyne report, focused on the area around the southern city of Cork, had exposed the Vatican as seeking to frustrate an inquiry into child sex abuse for its own benefit.

Every and any child growing up in or near a city in today's world will inevitably be exposed to higher amounts of pollutants and external toxicity, than any previous generation.

However if you are living in or near any major city in the world then supplements become essential to protect and nourish your child's health and growth from the environment they are being exposed to.

«A recent investigation by Reuters identified four zip codes in the city of Buffalo where 40 - percent of children have been exposed to lead.

In introducing his 2018 budget proposal to the Milwaukee Common Council on Tuesday, Barrett said there is still a long way to go toward meeting the city's goal of eliminating the health hazards that residents, especially children, face when they are exposed to lead.

«He's racked up 600 buildings violations at his properties, exposed children to lead paint, and turned a blind eye to rampant drug dealing that the City of New York had to sue him to stop.»

In this new study, researchers investigated children from a city environment who had been exposed to animal skin by sleeping on the material shortly after birth.

In reality, the effects of blanket news exposure isn't just a problem for children, says Houston, citing a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences last year finding that people outside Boston exposed to more than six hours a day of marathon bombing coverage experienced more stress than people within the city itself.

The workmen were building a high school, blasting out the site with dynamite in the southern Chinese city of Ganzhou when they saw it: the newly exposed fossil of a small, child - sized dinosaur.

«For one thing, climate change and rising carbon dioxide levels have created an environment that's more hospitable to the growth of allergens such as mold,» says Jay Portnoy, MD, director of allergy, asthma and immunology at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Mo. «What's more, we're living in cleaner indoor environments these days, so our immune systems go into overdrive when we're exposed to something unfamiliar, like dust mites or fur.»

We know that children who are raised on farms and exposed to more microbes, animal dander, and dirt are less likely to have allergies, asthma, and autoimmune conditions than their city kid peers (source).

Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools, by Jonathan Kozol, exposes some of the horrid conditions present in many of the nation's inner - city schools.

Stray people, usually children, found without a home or shelter on the streets of cities or even, amazingly, wandering exposed in the wilds.

Even after the Ministerio Publico Federal (the Federal Prosecutor Bureau) declared that no crime had been committed in any of the above - mentioned cases and issued a technical note clarifying that nudity and representations of sexuality are permitted in cultural and artistic exhibitions, the consequences continue to unfold: the state of Espirito Santo has passed a law prohibiting the exhibition of photographs, texts, drawings, paintings, films and videos containing nude scenes or references to sexual acts in public spaces; city councilors of the state of Rio Grande do Sul are currently trying to ban books in public libraries that, they argue, expose children to «permissive ideologies, [detrimental] to the formation of character.»

Another $ 100,000 has been given by Google to the city's Community Foundation of Greater Flint for the Flint Child Health & Development Fund, which will help the most vulnerable people exposed to poisonous lead.

For example, The Child Witness to Violence Project that is based out of Boston City Hospital began in 1992 and now serves over 150 children via counseling, outreach, and advocacy who have been exposed to violence and trauma events (Children Witness to Violence Projectchildren via counseling, outreach, and advocacy who have been exposed to violence and trauma events (Children Witness to Violence ProjectChildren Witness to Violence Project, 1992).