How to have a ‘Green,’ Healthy and Safe Holiday

If you’re like a lot of people around the holidays, you like to decorate! And this can mean strings and strings of colored lights wrapped ar...

Tacoma Smelter Plume – how to reduce exposure to the legacy pollutants

The Tacoma Smelter Plume (TSP) was caused by a copper smelter run by the company Asarco  in Tacoma. For about 100 years the industrial site...

Healthy Holidays: 10 tips for safer gifts

By Kateri Wimsett, Education & Outreach Specialist Making a list?  Checking it twice?  Finding out who’s naughty and nice?  Yes, it’s th...

Healthy Holidays: Lead in Holiday Decorations

By Jennifer Johnson, Education & Outreach Specialist Disclaimer:  I am a very protective mother.  I am the foodie who only serves fru...

In-office blood testing

The Maine Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program is pleased to announce rules adopted Nov. 5 now allow providers two options for blood ...

Lead-free kids for a healthy future – National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week

Nearly a quarter of a million children living in the United States have blood lead levels high enough to cause significant damage to their h...

Public Health Updates 12/13/10

NOROVIRUS GASTROENTERITIS Maine CDC has recently investigated five reports of gastroenteritis outbreaks from Cumberland, Oxfo...

Lead and Your Health

While this is of interest historically,lead exposure remains a serious and oft over-looked problem to the people in Idaho's Silver Valle...