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Fluoridated Kentucky Part of the Oral Health Crisis
WILLIAMSBURG, Ky. (AP) – Twelve-year-old Jordan Rickett nervously waited his turn in the Whitley County Central Elementary School gym, watching as a classmate seated in a dental chair got his teeth examined. “He’s sure been there a long time,” Jordan said, fidgeting. “I hope it doesn’t take that long for me.” For children in parts […]
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Fluoridation Forum. Defensive talk shop
By the time this goes to print we may well have the long promised report from the so called Forum on Fluoridation. Or we may not, there have been several missed deadlines already. But it hardly matters. My prediction for the outcome of this most biased of talk shops is that the status quo will […]
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DEP let phosphate waste flow into preserve
The state agency in charge of protecting Florida’s environment has allowed the dumping of millions of gallons of waste from a shuttered Manatee County phosphate plant into an aquatic preserve at the mouth of Tampa Bay. Since Oct. 22, the state Department of Environmental Protection has allowed the Piney Point Phosphates plant to pump 10-million […]
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UH school wins out over Lanai fluoride
46 state lawmakers write a letter making their case for how to use tobacco money State legislators apparently believe funding a medical school is a healthier use of tobacco settlement funds than fluoridating Lanai’s drinking water to prevent tooth decay, according to their recent actions. The Legislature approved $150 million from the tobacco funds for […]
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Ecologists and fisheries team up against aluminum plant in Chile
Santiago, Nov 18, 2001 (EFE via COMTEX) — Chilean environmentalists and fish-farming entrepreneurs, who for years have been bitterly at odds, have joined forces to oppose construction of an aluminum plant in the Andean nation’s pristine south. The defacto alliance between the two normally antagonistic sectors came about when the Canadian firm Noranda decided to […]
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Deafness more common among rural kids — Survey
PANCHKULA, Nov 16: According to a current survey, 7 per cent of the district’s population is deaf. A figure less than the national figure of 90-95 million by only 2.7 per cent. The survey was conducted in Raipur Rani by a team of PGI doctors led by Dr S.B.S. Mann, head of the ENT department, […]
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Modesto City Council puts formal end to flouride plans
Sink in their teeth and hold on? Not this time. In what might be their final act on one of the more controversial local issues in the past couple of years, Modesto City Council members voted Tuesday to drop the idea of fluoridating tap water. Although a majority of council members personally favor fluoridation in […]
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NGRI’s way with fluoride water
SECUNDERABAD:The National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI) here has come up with a cost-effective way to deal with the fluoride problem in some parts of the state. It has successfully experimented with what is called ‘Artificial recharge through bore hole injection’ for the purpose. According to Dr T Harinarayana a scientist at NGRI, the experiment has […]
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A mining showdown at Horse Creek
The puddle-deep stream known as Halls Branch trickles through the shadows of sand pines and water oaks near the rural Hillsborough County community of Welcome. As it meanders to a rendezvous with the Alafia River, its quiet burbling is easily drowned out by the urgent “beep-beep-beep” of earthmovers pushing dirt around an old mine nearby. […]
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Fluoridation Gets Flushed on Election Day
NEW YORK, Nov. 12 /PRNewswire/ — The following press release was issued today by the New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation: Voters on November 6, 2001, rejected fluoridation in several U.S. cities despite hundreds of thousands of dollars spent by fluoridation proponents in public relations campaigns. This adds to a growing list of cities […]
United States, National USA