EPA's lead balloon: how physicians helped sink a federal plan to dig up a corner of paradise

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A group of physicians surveyed the health of Aspen, Co, residents after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed the cleanup of a local mining site that would have displaced 1,500 residents. Soil at the site was tested to contain 700 to 1,500 parts of lead per million. When the group was unable to find any sign of lead poisoning among the residents, the EPA backed down from the plan, which would have cost taxpayers $12 million. However, researchers at the University of Michigan are continuing investigations into possible health hazards at the site.

Air, water, & solid waste management, Planning, Laws, regulations and rules, Political activity, Physicians, Medical professions, Environmental aspects, United States. Environmental Protection Agency, Lead poisoning, Aspen, Colorado

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Obesity in children an important yet complex issue

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Physicians should be aware that obesity rates for children are rising but they should treat each case separately and avoid pressuring patients and parents into taking overzealous weight control measures. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention studied 2,900 children between 1988 and 1991 and found that cases of child and adolescent obesity were much higher during that period than in the 1960s and 1970s.

Physicians & Surgeons, Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists), Health aspects, Care and treatment, Practice, Children, Teenagers, Youth, Child health, Pediatricians, Obesity in children, Childhood obesity

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