More Monroe County children tested positive for exposure to lead last year than the year prior according to results released today, but the numbers are far below where they were a decade ago.
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Study says porches can pose significant lead threat
A new study out of the University of Rochester says that porches on older city homes could contain significant amounts of lead dust, which is a major source of lead poisoning in children. The problems comes from flaking lead paint on the porches, says the study, which was published in the journal Environmental Health. Children […]
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Local public health officials encouraged by lead trends
Childhood lead exposure hasn’t been eliminated in Monroe County, but the numbers look a lot better than they used to. Much of the credit goes to local efforts to attack the source: lead paint in homes, particularly in older rental units. This morning, the Coalition to Prevent Lead Poisoning released 2013 county figures on childhood […]
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Lead exposure numbers down; federal funding in danger
In 2012, 182 children tested positive for blood-lead levels above the 10 micrograms per deciliter threshold, according to data released today by the Coalition to Prevent Lead Poisoning. That’s down from 222 children in 2011, 290 children in 2010, and, going back to 2000, 1,293 children.
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County sees fewer child lead poisoning cases in 2011
This is a corrected version of this story. Last year, Monroe County had fewer reports of children younger than age 6 with elevated levels of lead in their blood. Sort of. The numbers and trends depend on which threshold is used. The key statistic, however, is the number of children with blood-lead levels of 10 […]
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Metro Ink 12.14.05
Sounds of the swamp Terry Lindsey loves all styles of music, but he has a particular fondness for Cajun and zydeco, the ebullient sounds of southern Louisiana. “It’s good-time music,” he says. “It’s rootsy. It’s music to dance to, not just sit and stare at. You drink a beer, get out on the floor to […]
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Reader Feedback – 11.30.05
Writing the lead law, stopping the violence,
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Metro Ink 10.19.05
Stone by stone MCC students Shannon Stewart and Samuel Bradley have two buckets, 1.1 million stones, and $300. | But they want $550,000. | Stewart is president and Bradley is treasurer of the Holocaust Genocide Studies Project. | They take their buckets of stones (one stone to represent each person killed in the 1994 Rwandan […]
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Metro Ink 10.05.05
Still transforming Artist Lucas Samaras has been at it since 1960. He has worked in broad range of mediums and even participated in the earliest Happenings, a wave of performance art events in the 60s. Always self-referential, Samaras soon became known for producing experimental photographs where he used his body as subject and metaphor. Taking […]
