Sentences with phrase «by lead exposure»

A landlord may be held liable for a child's injuries caused by lead exposure in the child's residence if the landlord was aware (or should have been aware) that a young child was residing there and / or where the landlord knew that the apartment / house contained a hazardous lead condition and nonetheless failed to remedy the lead condition.

There are also signs that rats impaired by lead exposure can regain their neurological capacity by environmental enrichment.

However, since babies and children can be seriously harmed by lead exposure, there is no «safe» amount of lead a baby can ingest.

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The Fund offers meaningful exposure to the returns generated by Australia's leading equity hedge fund managers combined with the benefits of holding a diversified portfolio of these managers, within a single investment.

«The company's success to date would not have been possible if the board was led by another director lacking Elon Musk's day - to - day exposure» to Tesla's business, the board wrote in its proxy statement.

In fact, this scenario occurred back in 2013: as the Fed's taper tantrum led to a sharp rise in US real rates, gold collapsed by 29 % as investors exited gold exposures.

In particular, the GIC believes investors should diversify their tech exposure by owning leading companies in SMAC — security, mobile / social, analytics and the cloud — key tech growth areas that the GIC believes may produce strong returns.

«Emerging markets hedge fund performance has surged in recent months, led by funds with exposures to Latin America and Russia, driving the strongest monthly performance gains in over a decade, as commodities and regional equities recovered from steep early year losses,» stated Kenneth Heinz, president of HFR.

[T] he exposure of persistent human rights violations by the contras has led the Administration not to pressure contra leaders to enforce international codes of conduct,» the Americas Watch Report cited earlier states, «but to drown U.S. public opinion with praise for the «freedom fighters,» and to attempt to discredit all reports of their violations as inspired by communist or Sandinista propaganda.

The enemy, Satan, began his attempt to destroy God's people in the Garden of Eden, by also trying to corrupt the world (which led to Noah's Flood), by trying to destroy Israel with attacking armies, and by encouraging Israel to fall into idolatry by exposure to other cultures as well as intermarrying women from those cultures.

Long story short a secret government lab in the US can't contain an accidental exposure to a weaponized virus by one of their staff members, which leads to people calling zombies, walkers just to sound original and all.

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The discovery has lead to increased calls by experts to take steps at all levels of sports, from professional down to the youth level, to limit exposure to such repetitive trauma, while a shrinking minority (including the NCAA) continue to urge a more cautious approach until more is known.

Your article «Low doses of common chemical have science in a quandary» (News, Dec. 26) claims that exposure to low doses of Bisphenol - A (BPA) may lead to «possible widespread health risks,» and mentions a recent scientific review by the National Toxicology Program (NTP) as the evidence for this claim.

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When the private behaviour of a leading American golfer ceased to bring the right sort of exposure to his sponsors, he was immediately dumped (by some of them at least).

A new report compiled by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts offers some key findings and recommendations for preventing and responding to the problem of childhood lead exposure.

An investigative report released by Reuters News shows the City of Buffalo to be one of the most at - risk cities in the nation for child exposure to lead.

Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr. and Utica Mayor David Roefaro today announced that the City of Utica will receive a $ 2 million grant as part of the federal stimulus package, opening a new chapter in the county - city partnership to reduce lead exposure in the City of Utica by funding efforts to abate lead in some 190 rental and... Read more

«The convergence of population and climate hotspots leads to an increase in exposure larger than that produced by either alone,» says Bryan Jones of the City University of New York.

And public health experts believe that as many as 500 million poor people in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Latin America are being slowly poisoned by long - term cumulative exposure to aflatoxins, which can stunt a child's growth, suppress the immune system and lead to liver damage or cancer.

A study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has for the first time found that a mother's higher exposure to some common environmental contaminants was associated with more frequent and vigorous fetal motor activity.

«Our findings suggest that injuries, assaults, and combat exposures experienced by women during deployment may have an additive, negative effect on their post-deployment behavioral health,» said Dr. Rachel Sayko Adams, lead author of the Journal of Traumatic Stress study.

But it also may lead to monitoring the health status of lemurs and other primates living in the wild simply by screening blood samples for antibody patterns indicating exposure to specific parasites.

Intermittent lower - dose exposures can be as toxic as a single higher - dose exposure; Miller cites monkey research showing that either 10 nontoxic weekly doses or one toxic dose of an organophosphate pesticide led to the same increase in brain wave activity as measured by electroencephalogram, or EEG.

To put that into perspective, the World Health Organization (WHO) puts the threshold for safe air at 25 micrograms per cubic meter, and India's Central Pollution Control Board limits exposure to 60 micrograms per cubic meter, said Cusworth, a member of the Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling Group led by Daniel J. Jacob, the Vasco McCoy Family Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, and Loretta J. Mickley, Senior Research Fellow at SEAS.

«It is reasonable and prudent to conclude that most of the recent childhood deaths in those villages were caused by acute lead poisoning and take steps to stop the exposure,» the team wrote.

A team of researchers led by Marvin Diaz, assistant professor of psychology at Binghamton University, determined that even a small to moderate amount of alcohol exposure produces significant amounts of anxiety in offspring, lasting through adolescence and into adulthood.

Exposure to targeted, personal and verbal aggression by patients can adversely affect mental health nurses decision - making regarding physical restraint, new research published in the world's leading nursing research journal reveals.

By comparison, economic losses from lead exposure were estimated at $ 50.9 billion and $ 55 billion for the United States and Europe.

Exposure to verbal and physical aggression between parents may hurt a child's ability to identify and control emotions, according to a longitudinal study led by NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

«Optical dating determines when sediment grains were deposited by measuring their last exposure to daylight,» said Elizabeth Chamberlain of Vanderbilt University, the paper's lead author.

Now, a new University at Buffalo - led study suggests that the moral response produced by the initial exposure to a video game decreases as experience with the game develops.

Last summer, a panel of 38 researchers headed by vom Saal published a report in Reproductive Toxicology warning that BPA (much like the synthetic estrogen diethylstilbestrol, or DES) is a potential chemical time bomb that may lead to multiple problems, including a higher risk of cancer, especially if exposure occurs in the womb or an infant's early life and on an unrelenting daily basis.

3 Last year a team of scientists led by Kurt Zenz House, a doctoral candidate at Harvard University, proposed something they call engineered weathering, inspired by a natural process in which slightly acidic freshwater is neutralized by exposure to alkalizing minerals.

Whereas lead exposure can be quantified by the drop in a child's IQ and asbestos exposure can eventually be tallied by mesothelioma incidence, the typical standards of toxicology do not apply to the chemicals in plastic.

In Central America, which has been hit the hardest, the leading hypothesis is that this is an occupational disease, caused by chronic exposure to heat and dehydration in the cane fields.

Further, it demonstrates the potential to ultimately prevent conditions like ADHD by understanding how genes and environmental exposures combine,» says lead researcher Joel Nigg, professor of psychiatry and behavioral neuroscience at the OHSU School of Medicine.

Partially by eliminating exposure to secondhand smoke, said Stanton Glantz, Ph.D., the study's lead author.

All children were within the safe lead exposure range as defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the blood lead level in the sample was typical of the national U.S. population of children.

The researchers conclude in their paper: «Ultimately, knowledge of the mechanisms by which thirdhand smoke exposure increases the chance of disease development in exposed individuals should lead to new strategies for prevention.»

Professor Nicola Cherry, originally from the University of Manchester but now at the University of Alberta, commented on a recent companion paper published by the group in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine: «In addition to cannabis exposure shown in this paper, we also know that men exposed to paint strippers and lead are also at risk of having sperm with poor morphology.»

First, we experience more cumulative exposure to the things that mess with DNA in ways that can lead to malignant growth: sunlight, radiation, environmental toxins and noxious by - products of metabolism.

Indeed, exposure of the protein produced by the nanoparticle - based gene therapy to the gut mucosa prevents inhibitor development and restores clotting - factor activity in mouse models of both haemophilia A and B. «This approach really could hold big benefit for patients,» says Jörg Schüttrumpf, a transfusion - medicine specialist who led one of the studies performed at the German Red Cross Blood Donor Service in Frankfurt.

Earlier studies in other populations in the Netherlands led by Dr. Lumey examined the long - term impact of famine exposure and identified early gestation as the most critically sensitive period.

Led by Bavari and Travis Warren, Ph.D., the USAMRIID team performed a series of studies involving a lethal challenge with Marburg virus in nonhuman primates to determine the efficacious dose and regimen of AVI - 7288, as well as to characterize the drug exposures in animals that produced efficacy.

To better understand how changes in diet, lifestyle, and exposure to modern medicine affect primates» guts, a team of researchers led by University of Minnesota computer science and engineering professor Dan Knights, veterinary medicine professor Tim Johnson, and veterinary medicine Ph.D. student Jonathan Clayton, used DNA sequencing to study the gut microbes of multiple non-human primates species in the wild and in captivity as a model for studying the effects of emigration and lifestyle changes.

Exposure to air pollution early in a pregnancy could increase risk for preterm birth and low birth weight, according to a study led by researchers at NYU School of Medicine, and published on July 27 in Environmental Health Perspectives.