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Top 3 articles in JAMA Pediatrics in 2019 by Altmetric score
JAMA Pediatrics—The Year in Review, 2019 By Dimitri A. Christakis, MD, MPH Excerpt The Altmetric score “uses a proprietary algorithm to quantify the quality and amount of attention an article receives from traditional and social media around the world. Our top 3 articles 1-3 by Altmetric score from the past year are presented in the […]
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Fluoride poll passes Port Macquarie-Hastings Council, despite no authority to act on ‘yes’ vote
A council on the New South Wales Mid North Coast has voted in favour of putting a poll to the community about removing fluoride from the public water supply. Key points: Voters in the Port Macquarie-Hastings local council elections in September will be asked if they want council to stop adding fluoride to the public […]
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Is There Still a Good Case for Water Fluoridation?
Note from the Fluoride Action Network, The author did a lot of homework for this article, but noticeably absent was any interview with individuals or groups opposed to fluoridation. Instead, fluoridation opponents are presented as reasonless and offensive. (EC) Excerpts from original article … In the 1930s, McKay and others identified the staining agent: naturally […]
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Punjab:‘Groundwater in three Malwa districts poses risk’
CHANDIGARH: The chemical contamination of groundwater in southwestern region of Punjab is posing a great health risk to people living there, points out a study conducted by the Central University of Punjab, Bathinda. To investigate the source, distribution and potential health risk assessment of groundwater quality, study was conducted in three districts — Bathinda, Ludhiana […]
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Incineration of EV Lithium-ion batteries as a pretreatment for recycling – Determination of the potential formation of hazardous by-products and effects on metal compounds
Highlights Analysis of the gas and organic by-products after batteries incineration. Incineration of LiCoO2, LiMn2O4, and LiNiO2 with graphite addition. Thermodynamic modeling for LiCoO2, LiMn2O4, and LiNiO2 reduction. Reduction products: CoO, Co3O4, NiO, Mn3O4, MnO2 Li2O, and Li2CO3. Fluorine behavior during thermal treatment and its presence in oil by-products. Abstract In several industrial Lithium-ion batteries […]
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Doctors fight push to remove fluoride
Note from Fluoride Action Network, The public is waiting for dental groups like the AMA to start reading the published studies of fluoride’s neurotoxicity. Does AMA advise the consumption of fluoridated water to pregnant women and to the carers who bottle-feed infants? If so, they should be reading the Mother-Offspring studies and the over 60 […]
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Robert Churchill MacElvain of opposed fluoridation in Tuscaloosa
Excerpt from Obituary Robert Churchill MacElvain, age 91, beloved father and grandfather, died at his home on Monday, February 24, 2020. Mr. MacElvain was born to the late Pauline and Ford MacElvain in Birmingham on February 9, 1929. Mr. MacElvain was married to the late Lynne Mooty MacElvain for 54 years. He and Mrs. MacElvain […]
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This organisation is helping people test the quality of soil and water through a mobile app
Foundation for Environmental Monitoring (FFEM), a non-profit organisation, has developed easy-to-use kits which help in detecting contaminants and chemicals with the help of an Android mobile application. [Some of the parameters that can be measured include pH, Fluoride, Nitrate, Phosphate, Arsenic, and Chlorine.] The ever-swelling urban spaces, rapidly growing industries, and vast migrations in India […]
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Letters: ‘400 studies worldwide showing fluoride reduces human and animal intelligence’
ON February 26 I attended a talk chaired by Darlington Green Party Councillor Matthew Snedker, and addressed by Doctor John Furness, who was there to promote water fluoridation for Darlington. In the journal Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, he suggest adding fluoride to the water of deprived areas of Manchester, most of South […]
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Opinion: Tackling Tooth Decay On The Cheap
Note from the Fluoride Action Network, Kudos to the editors of the Civil Beat for publishing this notably accurate article, especially after their recent editorial in praise of fluoridation. (EC) The received wisdom on fluoridation is highly distorted. Water fluoridation is catnip to American progressives, a category in which I include myself. In a country […]
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