New research supports potential link between low-level lead exposure and liver injury

Nearly a decade on, the Flint water crisis still looms large in the minds of environmental toxin researchers. It was — and continues to be — evidence that not all communities in the United States are equally affected by environmental pollutants.

“It’s true that they’re sort of ubiquitous, but they aren’t uniformly distributed. And I think that’s part of what’s so disturbing,” said Andrea Branch, a professor of medicine at Mount Sinai’s School of Medicine in New York.

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