Do Mercury Dental Fillings in Pregnant Women Impact Their Baby’s Health?
October 9, 2020
For women who are pregnant (or thinking about getting pregnant), the FDA recently made important recommendations to avoid dental repair that uses amalgams made with mercury.
How Salem MA Launched a “Food Farm” To Provide Thousands of Pounds of Organically Grown Food to Local Families
October 1, 2020
The Mack Park Food Farm replaced an unused baseball practice area at a city park in Salem, MA, and is a pragmatic model for other cities’ sustainable healthy food initiatives.
How COVID — And Lead in Water — Highlight Government Shortcomings
September 9, 2020
The scarcity of solid information on COVID highlights the Trump Admin’s refusal to do what we clearly know how to do to solve a problem that, like COVID, impacts billions of people: the problem of lead contamination in drinking water. We don’t just want a government that protects us - we need a government that protects us.
Minneapolis Donated 300 Bags of Healthy Baby Food to Local Organizations Thanks to Bright Cities Funding
August 19, 2020
Minneapolis’s Health Department donated baby food with lower levels of arsenic to families in neighborhoods that traditionally suffer from health and economic disparities.
FDA’s New Arsenic Guidelines Fail To Protect Babies From Neurological Impact
August 5, 2020
The 100 ppb limit suggested, released today, did not consider IQ loss or other forms of neurological impact, allowed cancer risks far outside of protective limits, and failed to account for children who have unusually high exposures to arsenic in rice.
How To Ensure Your WIC Program Supports Healthy Food Choices
July 13, 2020
The Oregon Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) became the first WIC Program in the US to remove arsenic-containing infant rice cereal from its list of approved products to purchase with the WIC food benefit.
Air Pollution & Heat Are Hurting Babies — Especially Black Babies
July 1, 2020
Last week, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published a systemic review of recent studies on the link between the environmental problems of air pollution and extreme heat and the health problems of babies. The risk of harm is worst for black pregnant women, as well as for pregnant women with asthma.
How City Leaders Have Committed to Improving Children’s Health and Reducing Disparities
June 22, 2020
Bright Cities and the Mayors Innovation Project launched a RFP for city leaders in May. From a pool of cities of 7,000 to 1.7 million people, 10 winners were selected.