The products: At a time when heavy metals are showing up in tuna steaks and toy cabooses, it’s only natural to worry about the metals in our bodies. The good news: Americans have much less lead in ...

Lead chelation therapy can lessen learning and behavioral problems due to lead exposure, but the therapy adversely affected rats with no lead in their systems, a Cornell study shows. The finding has ...

Jan. 22, 2003 -- Ethylenedinitrilo tetraacetic acid (EDTA) chelation therapy presumably reduces the progression of renal disease in patients with high normal lead levels and without diabetes, ...

(02/03/16) - A Mid-Michigan pharmacist says he can help people in Flint with high levels of lead in their bodies. He wants everyone in the city to have a blood test - those with high lead readings ...

Sherri Oliver lives in a small town on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. It’s a two-hour bus ride to get to the Mount Washington Pediatric Hospital in Baltimore -- and she has brought her daughter, Katie ...

To ascertain the long-term effect of lead chelation therapy on renal function in patients with CKD and moderately elevated body lead burden (BLB). Changes in GFR (as estimated by the Modification of ...

Two hundred two patients with chronic renal insufficiency (indicated by a serum creatinine level between 1.5 mg per deciliter and 3.9 mg per deciliter) who had a normal total-body lead burden and no ...

Treatment with dimercaptosuccinic acid, an oral chelation agent, was linked to reductions in the amount of lead in blood in young children in Zamfara State, Nigeria following environmental lead ...

Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Vol. 51, No. 10 (Oct., 1994), pp. 669-673 (5 pages) Objectives—To describe 6 h urinary lead excretion (6 h PbU) after 1 g intravenous ethylene diamine ...

Background. A 60-year-old man with a history of diabetes and hypertension was referred to a nephrology clinic for investigation of his elevated serum creatinine level. Investigations. Physical ...

Treatment with dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA), an oral chelation agent, was linked to reductions in the amount of lead in blood in young children in Zamfara State, Nigeria following environmental lead ...