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The EPA recently took its first step toward determining safe levels of fluoride in drinking water, publishing a “Preliminary Assessment Plan and Literature Survey”. The toxicity assessment will focus on the potentially harmful effects of fluoride and will not consider its beneficial effects, including its role in preventing dental disease. In practice, what does the EPA’s […]

You may have missed this, but the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is the organization that in March brought the lawsuit that led to Judge Brian Murphy’s absurd decision in the Massachusetts Federal District Court in Boston. Murphy’s decision undid much of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s work vis-a-vis the nation’s […]

At the end of last year, a Japanese team discovered that there was more than meets the eye to a mechanochemical cross-coupling reactionscatalysed by nickel salts. The paper revealed that abrasion of stainless steel during ball milling activated nickel catalysts – without the need for mechanoredox catalysts, piezoelectric materials or common reductants – challenging the […]

Community water fluoridation is effective at preventing caries and dentists should advise policymakers and their patients not to abandon the practice, according to the cover story of the April issue of The Journal of the American Dental Association. “An Update on Community Water Fluoridation, Part 1: Mechanism of Action, Effectiveness, and Cost Savings” is the […]

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ideas have gone mainstream, but his Make America Healthy Again movement is struggling to find its footing. MAHA-coded ideas about food and nutrition are broadly popular and a third of Americans now identify as MAHA supporters. But new results from The POLITICO Poll suggest Kennedy’s movement is disjointed. His supporters aren’t […]