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While none of the kids had blood lead levels high enough to trigger the state to take action, they did have high levels in their bones.

View Comments A Flint pediatrician and former hospital CEO blasted the use of industrial scanners — not designed for use on human beings — to document Flint residents exposure to lead-contaminated drinking water, as a federal judge began a multi-day hearing Monday on whether a proposed $641.25 million partial settlement is a fair one. "Its just mind-boggling," Dr. Lawrence Reynolds, the former president and CEO of Mott Childrens Health Center in Flint, told U.S. District Judge Judith ...

The law firm Napoli-Shkolnik has made clear its disdain for medical professionals and Flint residents who have raised legitimate questions of safety, reliability and other related ethical questions.

Flint’s population, poisoned with lead in water seven years ago, is once again being victimized by “voluntarily” subjecting themselves—including children and pregnant women—to a radiation-emitting bone scan.

It is the latest development in a controversy over the use of the portable lead scanners to measure how much lead is in the bones of Flint residents.

Environmental News For The Week Ending 16 May 2019 This is a collection of interesting news articles about the environment and related topics published last week. This is usually a Tuesday evening regular post at GEI (but can be posted at other times). Please share this article - Go to very top of page, right hand side, for social media buttons. Note: Because of the high volume of news regarding the coronavirus outbreak, that news has been published separately: Covid seemed to drop out of the...

Doctors raise concerns about bone scans required for claims in the Flint water settlement Doctors continue to voice their concerns about the use of a portable bone scanning device required for Flint, Michigan, residents to qualify for compensation in the $641.25 million Flint water crisis settlement. In order to qualify for more than $1,000 per household, residents must prove they have lead in their bodies by having their bones scanned by a device not made or approved for use in humans. Lead is...

Lead poisoned Flint, Michigan residents, health care professionals raise concerns about bone scan required for compensation Health care professionals, including Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, are raising serious concerns that victims of the Flint, Michigan water crisis may be exposed to harmful radiation from bone scans required to qualify for compensation from the $641.25 million water settlement. Residents must prove their bodies were damaged by lead-in-water poisoning by submitting themselves to x-...

ethompson@lewistownsentinel.com LEWISTOWN — An incident that occurred Thursday morning prompted administrators at Mifflin County School District to be proactive in preventing student and staff injuries. Chief Operations Officer Vance Varner described to the district’s board of directors, during its regular voting meeting, an incident that occurred on a school bus in which an elementary student was taken to the hospital after a fire extinguisher was accidentally engaged and emptied. After em...

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