Word: boning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...researcher said that lead in the bone can come out into the blood cells decades after the initial exposure...
...past, some researchers had speculated that lead in bone might seep into the bloodstream during that process and pose a risk...
...they had no means of proving their hypothesis--until the development of the X-ray fluorescence instrument, which measures levels of lead in bone, according...
...their study, which was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Harvard researchers demonstrated a connection between lead in the mineral matrix of the bone and deficiencies in red blood cells and hemoglobin in the bloodstream...
...number of other research teams in the United States and Europe are also studying the effects of lead con centrations in bone using the new technology, said Dr. Philip J. Landrigan of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York...