Person
Herbert Needleman
American physician who studied lead and children’s behaviour and learning from 1979.
- Also known as
- Herbert L. Needleman
- Wikidata
- Q5735148
- worked at University of Pittsburgh 1990–1994
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worked at
- University of Pittsburgh 1990–1994 Scholarship & press 1
involved in
- Misconduct charges against Herbert Needleman, early 1990s federal Office of Research Integrity review, as the Globe reports it Scholarship & press 2
authored
- Deficits in psychologic and classroom performance of children with elevated dentine lead levels 1979 Scholarship & press 3
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Lead Poisoning: A Doctor's Lifelong Crusade To Save Children From It, NPR (Keystone Crossroads), 5 Jun 2016.
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The University of Pittsburgh, where Needleman worked, investigated for a year and found no scientific misconduct.
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Herbert Needleman, pediatrician who exposed dangers of lead poisoning (obituary), The Boston Globe, 29 Jul 2017.
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The probe cleared him of accusations of scientific misconduct but cited errors such as a failure to obtain a representative population for his experiment.
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Deficits in psychologic and classroom performance of children with elevated dentine lead levels (N Engl J Med 300:689-95), New England Journal of Medicine (abstract, PubMed), 29 Mar 1979.
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the performance of 58 children with high and 100 with low dentine lead levels was compared.
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