NBC News reported that the study was published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry in December. It used various metrics to estimate child blood-lead levels between 1940 and 2015 and ...

It wasn’t until 1970 that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officially declared that lead from automobile exhaust was a direct threat to human health. In 1973, the agency began to impose ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You're 20% more likely to suffer memory problems later in life if you were exposed to this as a kid growing up between 1960 and ...

After all those "lead paint" jokes about boomers, the shoe may be on the other foot. It's become a common internet joke in recent years — or maybe an actual theory — to attribute boomers' often ...

New research from the University of Virginia has found people born between the late 1960s and mid-1980s in the United States experienced high levels of lead exposure as children, due to the use of ...

(CNN) — A history of lead in gasoline may be behind tens of millions of mental health conditions in the United States, according to new research. “We’ve shifted the curve in the population for mental ...

In its various forms, lead has been used in many everyday products for millennia. The Romans even added it to wine as a sweetener. Its most widespread use, however, was its addition to petrol. And it ...

Americans might have been a whole lot more intelligent had it not been for lead-based gasoline. Lead was first added to gasoline in 1923, apparently to keep our car engines 'healthy.' But the move ...

For decades, Americans were surrounded by lead from car exhaust, factories, paint, and even drinking water, often without realizing the damage it caused. By analyzing hair samples preserved across ...

Leaded gasoline was widely used as car fuel in the US from the 1920s until the 1970s — it was phased out because it was found to be harmful to the environment and human health. It’s taken decades for ...