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A growing list of communities has stopped adding fluoride or drastically cut back on how much of the chemical they are adding to their public water supplies — not because of health concerns — but because they say they can’t buy it due to shortages linked to the Iran war and the Strait of Hormuz […]

A friend of mine has been a volunteer firefighter for 48 years. He doesn’t scare easy. He estimates that he’s helped put out 500 fires, running into burning buildings some of the time. That doesn’t faze him either. But last week, after a course on lithium-ion batteries, he was a bit shaken up, as evidenced […]

A large U.S. study has found that children whose mothers lived in areas with higher levels of fluoride in public drinking water during pregnancy tended to score lower on tests of fluid cognition, particularly when fluoride concentrations approached or exceeded the level recommended for community water fluoridation. The research, supported by the National Institutes of […]

In a Nutshell Prenatal exposure to fluoride in public tap water was linked to lower scores on brain tests measuring reasoning and learning in children, particularly at concentrations close to the U.S. government’s recommended optimal fluoride level. Children under age 7 showed the largest drops in cognitive scores associated with higher prenatal fluoride exposure compared […]

A new study is raising questions about fluoride exposure during pregnancy and children’s cognitive development. “This study addresses an important gap by evaluating prenatal water fluoride and child cognition in a large U.S. sample,” said lead author Katrina Simon of the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. “Findings from this work offer evidence that […]

Pregnant mothers who lived in neighborhoods where public drinking water fluoride levels were near or above the current U.S. recommended levels tended to have children who scored lower on tests of fluid reasoning as fluoride levels increased, according to a new study supported by the National Institutes of Health’s Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes […]

From manure pit accidents to cannabis laced with rodenticide, rural hospitals see a wide variety of toxicologyemergencies. In these situations, the ideal diagnostics often aren’t available, and treatments can be in short supply. These challenges make quick thinking and creative supply solutions essential, presenters noted at the ASHP Midyear 2025 Clinical Meeting & Exposition, in […]