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...examining table at the Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh, three-year-old Shawntea West is smiling and alert, apparently in excellent health. But she is afflicted with the most common of the serious childhood diseases. The mumps? Viral meningitis? Measles? Whooping cough? The answer, says Dr. Herbert Needleman as he draws blood from her arm, is lead poisoning...
...lead per deciliter of blood. If that toxic level is maintained, it could affect her mental capabilities and result in grave behavioral and physical problems. "She was living in raggedy housing and eating plaster from a big hole in the wall," says her grandmother, who accompanied her. To Dr. Needleman, that is an important clue; it is likely that some of the earlier coats of paint on the wall contained lead. "Make sure she washes her hands before she eats," he says, "and don't let her eat dirt or plaster...
...developed by the Department of Health and Human Services. Though HHS warns that the effects of exposure to even moderate amounts of lead are more pervasive and long lasting than was previously thought, its plan optimistically outlines a program for eliminating lead poisoning in children within 20 years. Dr. Needleman, a pioneer investigator of the disorder at the University of Pittsburgh medical school, feels that the goal is attainable. "Lead poisoning is the most severe environmental disease in this country," he says, "and it is totally preventable...
...beginning of Radio Days a burglar picks up the phone in the midst of robbing the Marty Needleman residence and answers the questions put to him by the cheery host of Guess That Tune. With a little help from his partner, he wins a truckful of major appliances for his victims. We may imagine their despair over returning to a ransacked home. But we are privy to their nonplussed elation the next morning when the windfall lands on their doorstep. It might be said that they experienced the "miracle of radio" (as it was known in the innocent...
Pharmacologist Philip Needleman of Washington University in St. Louis predicts that within five years doctors will begin testing drugs that limit the clogging of blood vessels initiated by platelets. Says he: "This is not a remote dream. This is a strategy that will have important applications quickly...