Environmental Risks and Children's Health

Posted on July 29, 2003

This supplement of Pediatrics magazine looks at the number of environmental health risks where children live and play, and how parents and pediatricians can protect kids. Topics include evaluating the links between childhood cancers and environmental problems, herbal remedies that can pose a threat to children, pollutants' effects on growth and maturation, the impact of agricultural uses of antibiotics on children's health and lead poisoning in developing countries.