Mapping the effects of ACA’s health insurance coverage expansions

Resource:  Mapping the Effects of the ACA’s Health Insurance Coverage Expansions
Kaiser Family Foundation
Maps the effects of health insurance coverage expansions from the Affordable Care Act.  Provides a zip code tool to estimate the number of people that may be eligible for expanded coverage through Medicaid or tax credits to subsidize the cost of insurance.

Revised Lead Poisoning Prevention Recommendations

Resource: Revised Lead Poisoning Prevention Recommendations
Advisory Committee for Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Revised recommendations on elevated blood lead levels that emphasize the importance of primary prevention by adopting a “reference value” based on the 97.5th percentile of the blood lead level distribution in U.S.children aged 1-5 years, which currently is 5 µg/dL.