Responding to a greater awareness of lead hazards and a push for more comprehensive testing, United Health Services will begin using new digital machines this week to test infants and youngsters who pass through their six family care centers. The new machines will make it faster and more convenient to take the test and get results, which UHS hopes will encourage more parents to have their children tested. All children are supposed to be tested at least twice before the age of 2, according to federal standards. On paper, it looks sound. But many practical obstacles -- including transience, lack of access and resistant parents -- prevent testing of nearly 47 percent of Broome County children...

by Brooklyn Eagle (edit@brooklyneagle.net), published online 09-19-2007 10 Brooklyn School Health Sites SUNSET PARK/BAY RIDGE -The Lutheran Family Health Centers School Health Program now offers rapid lead testing at 10 of its school health sites. Using the rapid test, providers can deliver blood lead results equivalent to those reported by outside laboratories in just three minutes. Since the beginning of August, millions of products containing unsafe levels of lead paint have been recalled. According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, Americans should expect more recalls in the coming months.

More toys added to the massive Mattel recall tonight.. More than nine and a half million yanked from shelves and homes. Now doctors are issuing their own warning. WGN medical reporter Dina Bair is here with important news every parent needs to know. If your child has any of the toys recalled for possible lead paint.. You don't just need to clean out the toy room.. You might want to take them for a lead level blood test. Dr. Kenneth Polin/Town & Country Pediatrics: a level of 10 or more may start to interfere with normal brain activity and as the kevels get higher other organ systems may be involved including things such as i was mentioning the brain, the kidneys.

lead content testing system Posted on : Tue, 19 Sep 2006 08:48:00 GMT | Author : Zipporah Koganowich News Category : Health WASHINGTON: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has given clearance to a new blood testing system that can determine whether a person is exposed to high amount of lead. Magellan Biosciences, Inc., whose subsidiary, ESA Biosciences, has developed the LeadCare II blood-lead testing system, said Monday the FDA has granted a CLIA waiver for the new testing system, which can tell in a matter of three minutes whether a person is exposed to high levelss of lead. The test can...

families and federal guidelines call for testing all Medicaid kids at ages 1 and 2. But fewer than 25 percent of such children get the tests. Some of the local officials think rapid testing technology could help overcome that. (Optional add end) Regulators at the FDA determined that the Magellan Biosciences device could be used safely and accurately by nurses, doctors and others with just a minimum of training. All the patient must provide is a small amount of blood from a sterile pin prick. The availability of rapid testinng increases the likelihood that more children will be tested. And although...

to detect blood lead levels expeditiously. The incidents of lead poisoning in children is so common, almost one in four homes are tackling the challenge. The FDA has risen to the occasion, and rolled out a timely diagnostic examination, capable of recording blood lead levels in 3 minutes flat. ESA Biosciences of Chelmsford, Mass., the brain behind the snappy diagnostic test, have extended its reach and availability to 115,000 centers across the nation. Now, the healthcare clinics, mobile health units and schools will be armed with this valuable tool to screen children for abnormal lead levels....

depending on when the developing brain is exposed, Geller said. Separately, the Food and Drug Administration said yesterday that children with lead poisoning will have greater access to a new screening system that measures lead levels in blood in as little as three minutes. The test, made by ESA Biosciences of Chelmsford, Mass., now will be available at more than 115,000 certified locations nationwide, including health care clinics, mobile health units and schools. Each year, more than 300,000 children ages 5 and younger have blood levels that exceed the threshold used to indicate lead poisoning....