Oral chelation for environmental lead toxicity

Wednesday, October 8, 2014 - 11:01 in Health & Medicine

Treatment with dimercaptosuccinic acid, an oral chelation agent, was linked to reductions in the amount of lead in blood in young children in Zamfara State, Nigeria following environmental lead contamination, according to a new study.

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