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State working to improve oral health
The State Oral Health Coalition has developed Washington’s first Oral Health Improvement Plan. Input was collected from community groups, the public, health professionals, educational institutions, businesses, and government agencies. The plan provides guidance to the private and public sectors about areas that need urgent attention — oral disease prevention, oral health promotion, access to care, […]
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Southampton/Hampshire: Fluoride protestors aim to have law overturned
IS this what you thought you were voting for? That is the question Hampshire campaigners are asking of every MP who passed the law giving local people the power to decide on controversial schemes to fluoridate water supplies. Hampshire Against fluoridation (HAF) is writing to the 220 politicians, including Southampton representatives John Denham and Alan […]
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Film: A village crippled by fluorosis (Balsingh-Singpur, Orissa)
Issue date of Down to Earth: February 28, 2010, online February 17. Pabani Pradhan, 42, looks 60. She can’t walk on her own. Joginath Pradhan, 60, Pabani’s neighbour, uses crutches. Sukant, 24, the sole breadwinner of a family of six, cannot move out of the village to fit tiles in people’s houses any more because […]
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How many can India relocate?
Issue date of Down to Earth: February 28, 2010, online February 17. THERE is talk of a new generation of filmmakers in Mumbai sensitive to the realities of an India that popular cinema has left untouched till now. Health conditions have recently found their way into film scripts. Diseases like Asperger syndrome, dyslexia and anterograde […]
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Tenterfield: Fluoride in town water after March
It is one year since the Department of Public Health told Tenterfield Shire Council it would have to begin fluoridising the town water, and the controversial additive is still not being added. But that looks set to change in the coming months. Construction of the $12,500 fluoride dosing plant has been completed and it is […]
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Study finds high C8 levels among ski wax technicans
When you’re enjoying more of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver this week, you might take a moment and think about the folks who are employed as ski wax technicians … There’s a new scientific study (Subscription required, but the free abstract is available here) just out today that shows ski wax technicians have some very […]
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Dallas, Texas: Study finds C8 in wide variety of foods
Read the study CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Researchers have found low levels of the toxic chemical C8 in a wide variety of foods, ranging from hamburgers and bacon to tilapia, olive oil and peanut butter, according to a new scientific paper. C8 was detected in 17 of 31 types of food purchases from five Dallas-area grocery […]
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Sarnia-Lambton: Fluoride vote on the way
After years of debate it appears Sarnia-Lambton’s water board is poised to keep fluoride in local drinking water. An Observer poll of member municipalities of the Lambton Area Water Supply System (LAWSS) shows that a resolution to keep fluoride would pass if it is put to the board at its Feb. 26 meeting. The board […]
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Gormley’s fluoride safety study won’t be ready until 2012
A study on the safety of fluoride in public drinking supplies will not be available until 2012 – more than five years after Green Party leader John Gormley promised to outlaw the chemical if elected to government. It is already nearly three years since the study was promised in the Programme for Government. But the […]
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Marine City officials still considering fluoride issue
Nine months later Marine City officials are considering the merits of having fluoride in city water. An incident last spring caused workers to shut down the tank used to fluoridate city water, ending at least a 40-year practice. Now, officials are waiting on a cost assessment for new equipment and are doing their own research […]
United States, Michigan