Childhood lead exposure from leaded gasoline has caused widespread mental health issues, particularly in Generation X, ...

For decades, gasoline contained heavy lead. Introduced in 1921 by General Motors, leaded fuel allowed engines to run smoother ...

“If you look at the current population, Generation X likely had the highest exposures, en masse, of any U.S. generation.” ...

Childhood exposure to leaded gasoline via car exhaust over the past 75 years is linked to 151 million excess cases of psychiatric disorders in the United States, new research suggested.

Concerns about the safety of leaded petrol arose immediately when one of the engineers who made the discovery, as well as several workers producing the additive, fell sick, and some died of ...

But another once-widespread source − leaded gasoline − might have harmed the mental health of a generation. Gen X bears an extra burden of conditions such as depression, anxiety, ADHD and ...

Leaded petrol was safe. Its inventor was sure of it. Facing sceptical reporters at a press conference in October 1924, Thomas Midgley dramatically produced a container of tetraethyl lead - the ...

Childhood exposure to leaded gasoline may be responsible for more than 150 million mental health disorders in Americans alive today. That’s the shocking takeaway from a recent study published in ...

Americans, especially those born between 1966 and 1986 (largely so-called generation X), have probably suffered from an additional 151 million mental health disorders that would not have occurred ...

There is now no country in the world that uses leaded petrol for cars and lorries, the UN Environment Programme has announced. The toxic fuel has contaminated air, soil and water for almost a century.