lead poisoning

How did researchers at the Johns Hopkins University and the Kennedy Krieger Institute come to be accused of conducting human experiments on African-American toddlers at risk of lead poisoning? The class action lawsuit against Hopkins is the focus of a new book about the relationship between science and industry, research ethics and patient rights. Our guests are Gerald Markowitz, history professor at John Jay College and the City University of New York, and David Rosner, public health and history professor at Columbia.

How do you define childhood lead poisoning? What is fair compensation for a lead-poisoned child? And, what’s fair to landlords who tried to rid their properties of lead? The General Assembly is wrestling with these and other questions.  We talk to advocates on both sides.

A new study finds that some teenagers are pressured or controlled by their partners through social media. We discuss teen cyber dating abuse with a “safe dating” educator.

March 13, 2013

In 1950, Baltimore city banned the use of lead paint in homes. But, city residents, of whom children and pregnant women are the most affected, are still being poisoned by the lead paint that was applied more than sixty years ago.

Tim Kabara on “Jazz Mind,” the new record from Ed Schrader’s Music Beat. The General Assembly is considering several bills related to lead paint in rental properties in Maryland.

Nathan Sterner talks to Baltimore Sun reporter Scott Calvert, who has reported extensively on the nearly $12 million in court judgments that the Housing Authority of Baltimore City has not yet paid to Baltimoreans who claim they got lead poisoning from the city’s public housing. Across the Divide: Cultural confusion in Fells Point, as a Native American treads the shifting line between black, white, and brown. Chuck Brown has been cranking out Washington D.C.’s homegrown dance music for over three decades now. Today he talks to Tom Hall about the history of go-go.