The Huangzhong district in Xining city, the capital of Qinghai Province, is home to 8,980 families, all of whom received assistance under China’s national policy to eradicate extreme poverty (below 2,300 yuan per person per year). Through social assistance and private sector financing, Huangzhong district succeeded in lifting all 28,706 residents out of extreme poverty […]
Tests on excavated paintings revealed corrosive salts coming from surrounding volcanic material Frescoes such as this one, excavated from the buried city of Pompeii, can be severely damaged if they are not preserved carefully. Credit: Marco Cantile Getty Images Smothered under volcanic ash and rocks from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, the ancient city of […]
But what happens in the wax bus matters too: Sweden’s biathlon wax bus flexes. (Photo: NordicFocus) Over the past few years, FasterSkier has reported on per-fluorinated waxes, powders, liquids, and pastes. Entities like the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Europe’s equivalent, the European Environment Agency, are phasing out eight-chain fluorocarbons. We know, after diving into […]
Excerpt [UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock] also told the committee that the Government was proposing to take back the power to implement water fluoridation across the country. Community water fluoridation in England is when fluoride has been added to bring it up to around 1mg of fluoride per litre of water which is a level […]
Original Letter online at https://fluoridefreeaustralia.org/open-letter-ada-nsw/ On 17 February 2021, Port Macquarie-Hastings Council confirmed a community poll on water fluoridation will be held later this year. In response to this decision, Dr Kathleen Matthews, President of the NSW Branch of the Australian Dental Association, has been outspoken in the media, criticising PMH Council for its “baseless” […]
A COMMUNITY poll on water fluoridation will be held in conjunction with the September 4 local government elections. The community will be asked: “Yes or no: would you prefer that council stop adding fluoride (hydrofluorosilicic acid) to the public water supply?” The fluoridation debate has been on the table for 30 years since the first […]
Last Reviewed March 2021 Note: Below is the executive summary of the first U.S. Surgeon General’s Report on oral health, published in July 2000. The full report is available as a PDF: Oral Health in America: A Report of the Surgeon General. Overview Publication of this first Surgeon General’s Report on Oral Health marks a milestone […]
Abstract Objective: To evaluate the association between source of drinking water and dental caries at age 5 and to test whether socioeconomic conditions act as confounding factors in such association. Methods: The study was carried out in a sub-sample of the 2004 Pelotas Birth Cohort, which comprised the application of a questionnaire and clinical oral […]
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Excerpt: Mission Bhagiratha Mission Bhagiratha scheme completely put an end to the drinking water problem faced by the people for decades. The scheme has become a model for the entire country to follow and emulate. The Central Jal Sakti Mission has recently declared that Telangana State is the one and only State in the country […]
