San Diego Mayor Susan Golding will ask the City Council on Tuesday to approve a plan to add fluoride to the city’s drinking water to reduce tooth decay. “It’s a health issue,” Golding said in a telephone interview yesterday. “San Diego is the largest city in the country without community fluoridation.” Money to pay for […]
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Norfluor Waste Shouldn’t Pave The City
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Félix Pérez, a leader for the International Ecology Alliance for the Rio Grande, believes that it is crucial that the Norfluor chemical plant in Cd. Juárez, which has been at the heart of much controversy since it experienced two chemical leaks last fall, should either close down completely or be relocated. “While we can not […]
Nuclear flasks fail safety test in new blow for BNFL
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Flasks used by British Nuclear Fuels to transport dangerous radioactive material can resist fire for less than three minutes, newly released research reveals. The revelation will provide fresh headaches for the crisis-ridden BNFL, which runs a major business using the flasks. New safety regulations demanded by the United Nations mean that all the flasks will […]
CDC: Hip Fractures Are Increasing
ATLANTA (AP) – Hip fractures among women 65 and older have climbed 40 percent between 1988 and 1996, with about a third of older Americans suffering serious falls each year, the government said Thursday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention attributed the increase in part to a growing number of people 85 and older. […]
Fluoride in our Water: Are We Brushing with Danger?
There’s a growing amount of evidence linking fluoride to cancer, osteoporosis and genetic damage. Most governments in Europe have banned it, yet Ireland continues to add tooth-preserving acid to the public water supply. Gemma O’Doherty reports Water fluoridation was once hailed as the saviour of our children’s teeth. But since it was introduced four decades […]
Fluoridation in Ireland: Some Background
Some news here from Ireland. I visited Ireland March 10-15 (2000) and had a chance to talk about fluoride and meet up with the activists fighting fluoridation. Here’s some background. 1) In 1960, the Irish Parliament (the Dail) passed the Health (Fluoridation of Water Supplies) Act. This mandated that fluoride be added to the public […]
EPA reports no environmental threat to farm area
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Environmental authorities found no immediate environmental threat to a rural area where farmers reported mysterious maladies that made them sick and killed their livestock, officials reported Wednesday. After a 14-month study, investigators from the federal Environmental Protection Agency found many of the problems to be associated with the way farmers manage their […]
Effort to put fluoride back into water system meets strong resistance in Ste. Genevieve, Mo.
STE. GENEVIEVE, MO. – More than 30,000 volunteers and 1 million sandbags helped this historic city on the Mississippi River fight the Flood of 1993. Most of its French colonial houses survived. Its contaminated water-treatment plant reopened. And the tourists came back. But one thing never returned. As dentist Kent Sadler found out at a […]
Fluoride enters Las Vegas water supply
Beaming dentists and health officials toasted each other with tap water-filled champagne glasses on Wednesday hours after Las Vegas became one of the last major American cities to fluoridate its water supply. “To a happier, healthier Nevada,” State Health Officer Mary Guinan said as she raised her plastic goblet at the ceremony outside the Community […]
Canadian Dental Association: Recommending Less Fluoride
The Canadian Dental Association supports the appropriate use of fluorides in the prevention of dental caries as one of the most successful preventive health measures in the history of health care. The availability of fluorides from a variety of sources, however, is a current reality which the practising dentist needs to take into account in […]