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Bangladeshi youth wins Forbes award
Bangladeshi youth icon and social entrepreneur Minhaj Chowdhury has won the first-ever “Under 30 Impact Challenge” at the Forbes Under 30 Summit in Boston in the US. Minhaj, cofounder and CEO of Drinkwell, aspires to bring positive changes to the world and is doing just that, as his firm offers a lifeline to a quarter […]
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Chapel Hill: OWASA Will Soon Reintroduce Fluoride Into Its Water Supply. Critics Say the Authority Is Unethicall
Curtis Williams slowly steps up close to the microphone. Standing in front of the board of commissioners for Orange County’s water authority, he’s holding a faded red dictionary and a poster board on which he’s drawn the cell structure of fluorine. Any dictionary, he says, will tell you what you need to know about the […]
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Fluoride Warnings Issued by International Group of Dentists
October is Dental Hygiene Month, but not all dentists will be touting the alleged benefits of fluoride. In fact, the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology (IAOMT) is using this month to raise awareness of the health risks associated with fluoride. This is especially timely because of recent news about a study linking fluoride […]
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Northern Westchester Joint Water Works Amawalk Water Treatment Facility Discontinuation of Fluoridation to Town of Yorktown and Somers Water Supply
This notice only impacts Yorktown and Somers residents. On or about October 3rd, 2017, the Northern Westchester Joint Water Works (NWJWW) will no longer add fluoride to its drinking water produced at the Amawalk Water Treatment Facility. When it is implemented, all Yorktown and Somers residents will not receive fluoride from drinking water. Fluoride is […]
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IQ Losses Continue to Haunt Fluoride
On September 19, Environmental Health Perspectives, a highly-respected journal, published a study (https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/ehp655/) linking higher fluoride levels in pregnant women to lower IQ’s in their children. The decrease was significant. Each 0.5 part per million (ppm) increase in a pregnant woman’s urine fluoride levels reduced her child’s IQ by 2.5 – 3 points. A child […]
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Potsdam holds public hearing on fluoridation
POTSDAM — Village trustees held a public hearing Monday to receive public comment on whether to continue fluoridating the village’s water. Unlike previous public comments, which were universally opposed to fluoridation, the eight people who shared their views Monday were evenly divided between supporting and opposing continued fluoridation of the water. The public comment began […]
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Association Reported Between Fluoride and Reduced IQ
A mother’s exposure to fluoride during pregnancy could lower the intelligence of her children, researchers say. Following a group of Mexican children from the time of their mother’s pregnancy to early adolescence, an international team of researchers found an association between high fluoride levels in the mothers’ urine and reduced scores on the children’s cognitive […]
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Development of China’s Public Health as an Essential Element of Human Rights
Note from FAN: Excerpts pertaining to oral health • Comprehensive oral disease intervention had provided free oral examination to 100 million children. A total of 5.168 million children received free dental sealants treatment and 2.229 million children received free local fluoride varnish treatment. • In the counties that suffered from endemic fluorosis caused by coal […]
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Punjab: Centre alerts state over decline in water table
The Union Government has red-flagged a sharp decline in the groundwater level in Punjab. As per a study conducted in May, 94 per cent of the state has shown a decline in the water level when compared to the average level from 2007-16. Despite that, the Punjab Government is adamant on keeping the “politically sensitive” […]
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Fluorine-containing molecules from cell cultures
Living cells produce fluorinated metabolites and bioplastics Natural organic compounds that contain fluorine are rare because living organisms — with a few exceptions — do not produce them. American scientists have now genetically engineered a microbial host for organofluorine metabolism, allowing it to produce a fluoridated intermediate known as a diketide. As reported in the […]
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