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Crackdown urged on mercury waste from dentistry
King County dentists have taken the lead statewide in reducing toxic mercury going down the drain and out into the environment. Now a coalition of environmental groups, labeling a voluntary state program to cut dental mercury waste a failure, wants a statewide crackdown. The voluntary two-year agreement, in which the Washington State Dental Association promised […]
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Fluoride statewide?
NORTH ATTLEBORO — The seemingly never-ending battle over fluoride in the water could be moving from the local stage to the Statehouse in the near future. State Rep. Kathleen Teahan, D-Whitman, has filed legislation requiring that fluoride be added to the water supply in every community with 5,000 people or more. One hundred and thirty […]
United States, Massachusetts -
A victory in state for free speech
Mark Breiner, a Trumbull resident who practices dentistry in Orange, has won a significant free speech victory over the state Department of Public Health. Breiner is an outspoken opponent of amalgam dental fillings that contain the toxic substance mercury. For years he has locked horns with the state agency and the American Dental Association and […]
United States, Connecticut -
Water fluoridation link to cancer not bringing vote back
An investigation into why a link between water fluoridation and cancer was suppressed won’t bring the issue back to Davis County ballots, a leading anti-fluoride advocate said Wednesday. David A. Hansen, chairman of Citizens For Safe Drinking Water, said even with the new evidence, he’ll make good on his pledge and not petition to bring […]
United States, Utah -
Xenia voters to decide on fluoride
XENIA – The teeth may (or may not) have it Nov. 8. The Xenia City Council voted Thursday night to let voters decide if fluoride should be added to the city’s drinking water. The council’s decision to put the issue to citywide vote next November followed a failed vote on the subject Thursday and a […]
United States, Ohio -
Dentist allowed to criticize mercury-based fillings
HARTFORD, Conn. — A Connecticut dentist who has been outspoken about what he contends are health risks in mercury-based dental fillings can continue to speak out. Mark Breiner, who has offices in Orange, has reached a settlement with state public health officials who had threatened to pull his license. The health department has said Breiner’s […]
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Professor at Harvard Is Being Investigated
Federal investigators and Harvard University officials are probing whether a Harvard professor buried research suggesting a link between fluoridated tap water and bone cancer in adolescent boys. The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), which funded Chester Douglass’s $1.3 million study, and the university are investigating why the Harvard School of Dental Medicine epidemiologist […]
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Harvard Professor Investigated in Fluoride Research Flap
BOSTON — Harvard University is investigating an allegation that a dentistry professor downplayed research showing an increased risk of bone cancer for boys who drink fluoridated tap water. Chester Douglass, who heads Harvard’s Department of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology, received a $1.3 million grant in 1992 from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences […]
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Harvard dentist investigated
The Harvard School of Dental Medicine announced last week that it is investigating a faculty member after the watchdog Environmental Working Group (EWG) accused him of misrepresenting a study by a former student that reported that fluoride in drinking water increases the risk of bone cancer in young boys. According to the EWG, Chester Douglass, […]
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Springmill Products Calls For “Serious Review” of Water Fluoridation Programs in U.S.
On the 60th anniversary of community water fluoridation in the U.S., Springmill Products, Inc. (SPI), maker of PetRefresh®, joins others calling for a serious review of the water fluoridation program in the U.S. to investigate studies that point to a causal relationship between fluoridated water and dental/skeletal fluorosis, cancer, osteoporosis, decreased sperm counts, hypothyroidism, early […]
United States, National USA