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City holds its breath as volcano bubbles
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo — Deep inside the volcano’s crater, a cauldron of scarlet lava spits, bubbles, and boils. Clouds of foul-smelling gas billow up and over the rocky rim. On a recent morning, park ranger Jean-Bosco Simpeze peered into the angry pit, then turned to face the plain below. The dawn light caught […]
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Greens kick off national campaign against water fluoridation
GREEN activists will kick-off a national anti-fluoridation campaign today following the recent passage of the Water Bill. A national petition will be launched at a noon rally in Manchester’s Piccadilly Gardens, organised by Manchester Against Fluoridation. The petition calls for a halt to fluoridation plans on the grounds of human rights, serious health concerns and […]
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DEP Still Looking At Coronet Plant, Senators Are Told
TALLAHASSEE – An official with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection told a state Senate committee Tuesday that the agency will continue investigating how far pollution has spread beyond the boundaries of Coronet Industries. Mike Sole, DEP director of waste management, would give no details of where the investigation into the Plant City phosphate processing […]
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Clash looms on fluoride in Wales
WALES is to take over responsibility for fluoride in water supplies. Assembly Members unanimously approved devolving a range of measures from Whitehall to Cardiff, among them the power to add fluoride to water. Sue Essex, Local Government, Finance and Public Services Minister, said the Welsh Assembly Government would give the issue “very careful consideration” before […]
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Low Tooth Decay with No Fluoridation
WINTON — The pros and cons of treating water supplies with fluoride were debated at length in Winton on Monday night. A crowd of 57 attended the meeting, which was one of a series called by the Southland District Council to hear submissions on introducing fluoride to town water supplies throughout the district. The number […]
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Wales to decide on flouride in water
Wales is to take over responsibility for fluoride in water supplies, it was announced today. Assembly Members will vote on the measure today, although little opposition is expected to the transfer of powers from Whitehall. Local Government, Finance and Public Services Minister Sue Essex said the Welsh Assembly Government would give the issue “very careful […]
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Glaxo chief: Our drugs do not work on most patients
A senior executive with Britain’s biggest drugs company has admitted that most prescription medicines do not work on most people who take them. Allen Roses, worldwide vice-president of genetics at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), said fewer than half of the patients prescribed some of the most expensive drugs actually derived any benefit from them. It is an […]
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Subverting U.S. Health
In 1955, reporter Edward R. Murrow asked Dr. Jonas Salk who owned the patent on the polio vaccine that Salk had invented. “Well, the people,” a puzzled Salk responded. “There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?” Dr. Salk’s professional life was as far removed from that of today’s researchers at the National Institutes […]
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Drug Companies and Government Medical Research
BETHESDA, Md. – “Subject No. 4” died at 1:44 a.m. on June 14, 1999, in the immense federal research clinic of the National Institutes of Health. The cause of death was clear: a complication from an experimental treatment for kidney inflammation using a drug made by a German company, Schering AG. Among the first to […]
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New Air Monitor At Coronet Finds No Hydrogen Fluoride
PLANT CITY – A new monitor has not detected toxic hydrogen fluoride in the air around Coronet Industries, officials said Wednesday. Hydrogen fluoride is of particular concern because Coronet discharges about 33 tons per year from its smokestacks and holding ponds. The chemical is harmful to humans even in small quantities, said Jerry Campbell, air […]
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