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Former water plant guard says chemical cloud made her sick
On Dec. 24, Ava Morris was thinking about her 11-year-old son and making her rounds as a security guard at the Santee Cooper water-treatment plant in Moncks Corner. It was a silent night, uneventful, until she encountered a cloud of chemicals. “It looked like Christmas; it looked like snow,” Morris said. “In all honesty, for […]
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Dentist has Natives gnashing teeth
The president of the Alaska Dental Society apologized for the first time this week for making what he called “offensive and insensitive” comments about Alaska Natives. The statements, originally posted March 1 to an online discussion group, inflamed the already-heated dispute over creation of a dental therapist program in rural Alaska. Tribal health administrators overseeing […]
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Hands off our water
SOUTH Yorkshire pensioner Elizabeth McDonagh is dedicating her golden years to making sure tap water in God’s own county remains heavenly pure. With water companies across the country starting to add fluoride to the supply, the Doncaster 70-year-old fears it’s only a matter of time before Yorkshire Water follows suit. While dentists say fluoride is […]
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Corning health board to discuss fluoride
Corning | A dispute that has divided communities across the country will soon be debated in the Crystal City. The city Board of Health will meet at 7 p.m. today to discuss the benefits of adding fluoride to the city water supply. Water fluoridation is the act of adding fluoride ions to drinking water in […]
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Fluoride May Cause Cancer
A study associating drinking fluoridated water with osteosarcoma, a rare malignant bone tumor, was published last Wednesday on “Cancer Causes and Control”, an online peer-review journal of Harvard University. Elise B. Bassin, a clinical instructor in Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology, who led the study, wrote in an e-mail that she found a significant relationship […]
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Debate on fluoride not cut and dried
The fluoridation of public water has been a contentious topic in Texarkana. Attempts to add the chemical to the water system have twice been rejected by Texarkana, Ark., voters, and since the water utility is a shared operation of both the Texas and Arkansas sides of town, this has effectively quashed the efforts. People pushing […]
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Study links fluoride to bone cancer in boys
Boys who drink fluoridated water are five times more likely to develop a rare but deadly form of bone cancer than boys who drink water without the chemical, Harvard University researchers have found. The finding, if verified by further research, would disprove the U.S. government’s long-held contention that adding fluoride to tap water prevents tooth […]
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Borough water fluoridation ban seems imminent
HIGHTSTOWN — After months of debate, the Board of Health seems poised to recommend that the borough stop adding fluoride to its water supply. A draft recommendation to the Borough Council was introduced during Wednesday’s board meeting, with several members speaking out in favor of stopping the fluoridation of water until its potential benefits and […]
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Govt urged to reconsider fluoridation of water supplies
Dentists are calling on the Irish Government to reconsider the fluoridation of drinking water supplies in light of a new US study linking the practice with bone cancer. Since the 1960s, fluoride has been added to all public water supplies in Ireland with the aim of improving dental hygiene. Several groups, including the Irish Dentists […]
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Does Fluoridation Up Bone Cancer Risk?
April 6, 2006 – Boys who drink fluoridated water have an increased risk of a deadly bone cancer, a new study suggests. Elise Bassin, DDS, completed the study in 2001 for her doctoral dissertation at Harvard, where she now is clinical instructor in oral health policy and epidemiology. The study finally was published in the […]
United States, National USA