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• Yorkshire. Kirklees dental chief backs fluoride study for water supplies

  A HEALTH chief today insisted: Fluoride can help prevent tooth decay. Jini D’Cruz, Consultant in Dental Public Health for NHS Kirklees, said that was one of the reasons why a special study has been commissioned to look at putting fluoride back into Huddersfield water supplies. The additive was used in water supplies for some areas, […]

• New Jersey pharmacy mistakenly gives kids breast cancer medication instead of fluoride pills

  TRENTON, N.J. — The state attorney general’s office has begun a preliminary investigation into a CVS pharmacy’s mistaken distribution of pills for the treatment of breast cancer to children instead of the fluoride pills that were prescribed. The attorney general’s consumer affairs division on Friday ordered a CVS pharmacy in Chatham to explain the mistake […]

• Sweet News You Can Bite Into: Cavistat more effective than fluoride

  October 28, 2005 — Candy may soon be good for your teeth. Long Island scientists have developed an enzyme that can be added to snacks and turn into a more powerful cavity fighter than fluoride. “[It attacks] all stages of the tooth-decay process at the same time,” said Dr. Israel Kleinberg of the Stony Brook […]

• Yorkshire: Fluoride in water study set to raise hackles

  A STUDY is to be carried out into adding fluoride to drinking water in Yorkshire after pleas from two health trusts concerned about the state of children’s teeth. The region-wide feasibility study is being commissioned at the request of the West Yorkshire trusts who believe fluoridation may be the best way of improving dental health. […]

• Fluoridation Fails Poor Children, New Studies Show

  NEW YORK, July 24 /PRNewswire/ — Fluoridation promises to level cavity rates between poor and non-poor, but fails, according to two studies in the May-June “Pediatric Dentistry,” reports the New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation (NYSCOF). Low-income pre-schoolers, from northern Manhattan, New York City (100% fluoridated), have significantly more cavities than pre-schoolers nationwide (62% […]

• Bill would extend fluoridation opt-out

  YORK — York voters have already said no to fluoridation of the public water supply, but other towns with more than 1,000 in population could have an extended deadline to vote on the issue. State senators advanced a bill from general file that would eliminate a deadline for cities and villages to opt out of […]

• Editorial: Add fluoride to York water

  In the classic Cold War satire “Dr. Strangelove,” Gen. Jack Ripper goes “a little funny in the head” and orders a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. His reason for attacking? Fluoridation of water. Gen. Ripper believes fluoridation of water was a communist plot to pollute Americans’ “precious bodily fluids.” In a pivotal scene, Gen. […]

• Yorkshire. Fluoride back in Huddersfield’s tap water?

  FLUORIDE is back on the agenda in Huddersfield. Health officials in Kirklees have commissioned a feasibility study to see if the chemical could be added to the region’s drinking water. It is a move sure to spark fierce debate and controversy, with many factions fiercely opposed to the move, claiming it is forced medication. But […]

• New Warnings About Fluoride

  For a long while, the medical and health establishment brushed off claims that fluoridation of drinking water posed any danger to humans. Not any more. In a cover story in the August edition of Prevention magazine, the respected publication headlines “New Research: Is Your Water Safe to Drink?” The article notes that for over fifty […]

• Canton Stops Fluoridation – Spurred by College Faculty, Staff & Students

  NEW YORK, Feb. 21 /PRNewswire/ — Village trustees voted, on February 18, 2003, to halt fluoridation in Canton, New York. One hundred and thirty faculty and staff members of Canton’s St. Lawrence University and 300 students petitioned the village trustees to ban fluoride from its water supply, reports the New York State Coalition Opposed to […]