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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. "It's just mind-boggling," Dr. Lawrence Reynolds, the former president and CEO of Mott Children's Health Center in Flint, told U.S. District Judge Judith Levy. "This is completely irresponsible and unethical." Bone scans have emerged as an important w...

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.